Article: WORLD SERIES GAME 1 RED SOX 13 ROCKIES 1 A smashing success; Red Sox pound out 17 hits

Boston - So much for the hottest team in baseball.

It'll be a few days before we know if eight days of inactivity took the starch out of the Colorado Rockies or if they simply are no match for the Boston Red Sox, who must wonder now how it took three elimination games to escape the ALCS alive.

Continuing the offensive barrage that sent Cleveland home for the winter, the Red Sox overwhelmed the Rockies, 13-1, Wednesday night in Game 1 of the World Series at Fenway Park.

The embarrassing defeat snapped Colorado's 10-game winning streak and begged the question as to whether the wild-card Rockies who won 21 of 22 before sitting for eight days can compete with the

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