2007 World Series
The 2007 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2007 season. The 103rd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Colorado Rockies and the American League (AL) champion Boston Red Sox; the Red Sox swept the Rockies in four games. It was the Rockies' only appearance in a World Series. The Red Sox's victory was their second World Series championship in four seasons and their seventh overall; it also marked the third sweep in four years by the AL champions. The series began on Wednesday, October 24 and ended on Sunday, October 28.
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| Dates | October 24–28 | |||||||||
| Venue | Fenway Park (Boston) Coors Field (Colorado) | |||||||||
| MVP | Mike Lowell (Boston) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Ed Montague (crew chief), Laz Díaz, Ted Barrett, Chuck Meriwether, Mike Everitt, Mike Reilly | |||||||||
| Hall of Famers | Red Sox: David Ortiz Rockies: Todd Helton | |||||||||
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| Television | Fox (United States) MLB International (International) | |||||||||
| TV announcers | Joe Buck and Tim McCarver (Fox) Dave O'Brien and Rick Sutcliffe (MLB International) | |||||||||
| Radio | ESPN WRKO (BOS) KOA (COL) | |||||||||
| Radio announcers | Jon Miller and Joe Morgan Joe Castiglione and Glenn Geffner (WRKO) Jeff Kingery and Jack Corrigan (KOA) | |||||||||
| ALCS | Boston Red Sox over Cleveland Indians (4–3) | |||||||||
| NLCS | Colorado Rockies over Arizona Diamondbacks (4–0) | |||||||||
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Terry Francona became the second Red Sox manager to win two World Series titles, following Bill Carrigan, who won the 1915 and 1916 World Series. Including the last three games of the AL Championship Series, the Red Sox outscored their opposition 59–15 over their final seven games. Francona also became the first manager to win his first 8 World Series games. The Rockies, meanwhile, became the first NL team to get swept in a World Series after sweeping the League Championship Series, and just the second team ever to suffer such a fate, following the Oakland Athletics in 1990. This fate would again be suffered by the 2012 Detroit Tigers, being swept by the San Francisco Giants in the World Series after sweeping the New York Yankees in the ALCS. As of 2023, this remains the most recent time an American League team has swept a National League team in the World Series.