Johnny Pesky Delivers Clutch Performance, Helps 1946 Team Win ‘Red Sox Showdown for the Ages’
According to the simulations of WhatIfSports.com, the 1946 Red Sox are the best team in franchise history.
The '46 club blew out the 2003 team with a convincing 11-3 win in Game 6 to help them finish off a 4-2 win in the finals of the "Red Sox Showdown for the Ages."
Johnny Pesky, who infamously "held the ball" in Game 7 of the 1946 World Series in which the Cardinals downed the Red Sox, had another terrific performance on the way to helping the '46 team take the Showdown finals.
Pesky went 2-for-4 with a pair of RBIs in the Game 6 route, and in the process, finished the best-of-seven series with a .464 average winning him MVP honors.
While Trot Nixon gave the 2003 team an early 2-0 lead in Game 5 with a solo home run in the second inning, it was a two-run blast from Rudy York and then a two-run single off the bat of Pesky that gave the '46 team the lead, a lead they would not surrender.
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