Red Sox clinch AL East title with Toronto’s loss
Published 7:28 pm Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Associated Press
NEW YORK — The Boston Red Sox have won the AL East, clinching the division championship when the Toronto Blue Jays lost to Baltimore.
David Ortiz and the Red Sox, who had already secured at least a wild-card spot in the playoffs, will open their postseason schedule Oct. 6 seeking a second World Series crown in four years. The team’s first opponent has not been determined yet.
The Red Sox entered Wednesday night needing a win or a Toronto loss to wrap up their eighth AL East title.
Boston lost 5-3 in New York on a walk-off grand slam by the Yankees’ Mark Teixeira, but celebrated in their locker room in the Bronx all the same.
