Game 4 in Cincinnati was Wednesday, Oct. 15. That’s when Luis Tiant whirled and twirled for 163 pitches and went the distance in a 5-4 series-squaring victory. The Reds’ Game 5 win was Thursday, Oct.

You don’t get a curse without a little heartbreak first. The Boston Red Sox-World Series-winning drought lasted from 1918 to 2004, and the team ended four postseasons one win away during that 86-year ...

Fifty years ago, on Oct. 21, 1975, the Boston Red Sox played one of the greatest World Series games ever. The Sox hadn’t won a championship in more than half a century. That night, they were down ...