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The 2018 Major League Baseball season ended with the Boston Red Sox as distinct favorites to win the World Series. The 108-win Red Sox kept rolling for 11 more wins to earn a World Series title and cement themselves as the best team in the franchise’s 118-year history. First they overcame the rival New York Yankees, also winners of 100 games. Then awaiting in the ALCS were the 103-win Houston Astros, defending World Series champions. The Red Sox methodically advanced to face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the Fall Classic. The Boston favorites won Games 1 and 2 at Fenway Park, were defeated in an historic 18-inning battle in Game 3, then produced a dramatic comeback win in Game 4 before producing a convincing clincher in Game 5.