The defending World Champion Boston Red Sox will play the Tampa Bay Rays in the 2008 American League Championship Series which gets underway Friday, October 10th in Tampa Bay, Florida. The Red Sox beat the Angels 3-2 in the bottom of the ninth to win the ALDS 3 games to 1. The Rays beat the Chicago White Sox in the Division Series round 3 games to 1. The Red Sox and Rays are both from the AL East and faced each other eighteen times in 2008. The Red Sox won 8 games and lost 10 to the Rays. The Red Sox defeated the Rays 7-1 on June 5th a game in which Coco Crisp was hit by a pitch by the Rays’ James Shields igniting a bench clearing brawl.
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