Red Sox VS Cardinals Live Stream: Watch Online Free World Series Game 1 Wednesday FOX 7:30 ET - Lester-Wainwright Pitch As Two Best Teams In MLB Meet For It All
Red Sox vs Cardinals live stream: Watch online free World Series game 1 Wednesday FOX 7:30 ET in Boston as the best-of-seven begins with a doozy of a pitching matchup.
The Fall Classic will feature what has become a rarity in today's MLB - the teams with the two best records in the league meeting in the World Series for the Cardinals vs Red Sox matchup. Watch the free live stream online as the two best duke it out for ultimate supremacy.
This Red Sox vs Cardinals World Series is a rematch from the 4-0 sweep Boston had over St. Louis in 2004. Watch the free live stream online as games one and two take place in Boston because the American League defeated the National League in the all-star game, which gave the winning league home-field advantage.
Same record, similar teams, etc. is what Cardinals manager Mike Matheny hears over and over.
"You hear some of the things that they say," Matheny said of the Red Sox "and it's a lot of similar things that have been preached in our clubhouse. That it's about team; it's not about us individually. And grinding out at-bats and playing tough, playing hard, playing all the way through nine. Those are the things that I believe set good teams apart."
St. Louis will get back on of its best hitters in Allen Craig. The 29-year-old batted .315/.373/.457 before suffering a left foot injury on Sept. 4. He missed most of the last month of the regular season and the first two rounds of the playoffs, but now is activated for the World Series and will be in the middle of the lineup for game 1 Wednesday.
"The most important thing for me is just to focus on competing," Craig told MLB.com. "I'm really focusing on that more than how I feel."
St. Louis has hit well in the postseason, but his bat adds more balance from 1-9 in the order.
"He is such a prolific hitter, it's definitely worth the chance," Cards general manager John Mozeliak said. "We're trying to get him as much live pitching as we can, but to simulate Game 1 of a World Series is virtually impossible. We'll do the best we can."
The pitching matchup is Adam Wainwright, who has a 1.57 ERA in three starts vs John Lester, who has gone 2-1 with a 2.29 ERA. His only loss was a 1-0 defeat to Anibal Sanchez in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series.
