Article: Red Sox prepare for White Sox.(Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox)

Byline: Phil Rogers

BOSTON _ The Boston Red Sox had two chances to win one more game to become the American League wild card. Turns out they needed only one.

In a stunningly anticlimactic ending to a previously electric weekend, the Red Sox were in the fifth inning of Sunday's 10-1 victory over the New York Yankees when the Fenway Park scoreboard registered the White Sox's latest win at Cleveland. The crowd of 34,534 cheered the Indians' elimination and immediately went back to a traditional New England mind-set:

No more rooting for the White Sox.

Instead the Red Sox will look ahead to an American League Division Series meeting with ...

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