As the Red Sox finished off a two-game series with the Cardinals, they went back in time 50 years to remember the 1967 American League champs. A team that stunned the baseball world by winning the pennant out of nowhere.
Led by slugger Carl Yastrzemski, who won the American League's Triple Crown, and pitcher Jim Lonborg, the American League's Cy Young Award winner, the Red Sox won the pennant on the last day of the '67 season after one of the most memorable races in baseball history, with four teams within a game and a half of the lead with four days left in the season. The Red Sox beat the Minnesota Twins twice on the final weekend, with Yaz going 7 for 8 and Lonborg winning his 22nd game and starting the game-winning rally with a bunt single in the season finale.
The pennant was Boston's first since 1946, and the excitement generated by that season is often cited as the start of Red Sox Nation, as attendance doubled from the previous year, and 10 years later exceeded 2 million fans for the first time.
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