Red Sox Advance To ALCS, Eliminate Rays

Oct 9, 2013 6:32 AM

The Boston Red Sox are moving on to the American League Championship Series after a 3-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays in Game Four of the AL Division Series. Shane Victorino singled in Jacoby Ellsbury in a two-run seventh inning and Dustin Pedroia added a sac-fly for insurance in the ninth as Boston won the best-of-five series three-games-to-one. Jake Peavy allowed one run over five-and-two-thirds innings in the start while Craig Breslow recorded the win in relief.

Koji Uehara notched a four-out save for Boston, which will host Game One of the ALCS on Saturday. The Sox will face either the Oakland Athletics or Detroit Tigers, who play a deciding Game Five of their ALDS on Thursday. Jake McGee took the loss for Tampa Bay, which sent nine pitchers to the mound to set a nine-inning postseason record. David DeJesus knocked in the lone run for the Rays in defeat.