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Games 1-2 and 6-7 of the World Series will take place in Boston, while Games 3-5 will happen in St. Louis. All games will be televised on Fox.

• Game 1: Wednesday, Oct. 23, at 8:07 p.m. ET, with pregame broadcast beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET.

• Game 2: Thursday, Oct 24: 8:07 p.m. ET, pregame at 7:30 p.m. ET.

• Game 3: Saturday, Oct. 26: 8:07 p.m. ET, pregame at 7:30 p.m. ET.

• Game 4: Sunday, Oct. 27: 8:15 p.m. ET, pregame at 8 p.m. ET.

• Game 5: Monday, Oct. 28: 8:07 p.m. ET, pregame at 7:30 p.m. ET.

• Game 6: Wednesday, Oct. 30, 8:07 p.m. ET, pregame at 7:30 p.m. ET.

• Game 7: Thursday, Oct. 31, 8:07 p.m. ET, pregame at 7:30 p.m. ET.

This year's World Series matchup is one of the three pairings of the two teams with the best records in their respective leagues, joining 1995 (Atlanta Braves vs. Cleveland Indians) and 1999 (New York Yankees vs. Atlanta Braves).

Both teams are battle-tested. The Cardinals emerged on top of the hyper-competitive NL Central and survived two difficult postseason rounds to reach this point.
The Red Sox played in a division that, with the Yankees not quite their usual selves, was perhaps not as competitive as it was just last year, but the continued success of the Orioles and Rays still made for a hazardous trip to the postseason.
The Rays didn't give them very much trouble in the first round, but the six-game struggle against the Tigers in the American League Championship Series misses being a classic perhaps only because it didn't go the full seven games.
The Red Sox barely hit, struck out 73 times in 193 at-bats, and barely outscored the Tigers for the series as a whole. Perhaps the Tigers lost the series as much as the Red Sox won it, but you can't say that the Sox did not seize hold of the breaks when they came their way.

There's no telling what kind of Series this will be . . .

Geoffrey P wrote:Is there really no one to replace Drew? Good on defense but he's got to be the most infuriating players I've seen when at bat. IMO there's no way that his defense warrants him playing when he's an automatic strikeout.

WALTHAM — They are two different teams in different sports on opposite ends of the spectrum: one on the cusp of a title, the other in the infancy of rebuilding.

But Jeff Green sees comparisons between the Red Sox and Celtics.

“They are my inspiration,” the Celtics swingman said after practice Tuesday.

“I’ve been watching them the last couple of years and nobody thought they would be at the point they are right now with guys who just came out of nowhere and played together. They are all on the same page. They are getting the job done. Now they have a great chance of winning the World Series.”

The Red Sox can clinch the World Series title — their third in 10 years — by beating the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 6 Wednesday night at Fenway Park.