john feral is secure in his position for another year. >> so i just spoke to john when he walked out here. john feral will be the manager for 2017. >> reporter: wasting no time addressing the red sox off season decision committing to the skipper for another year. year. i've been happy working me myself. i think he has the respect of the clubhouse. we played hard. we communicate well with one another. >> reporter: the president of baseball operations says addressing his manager's future now rather than later was at the top of the to do list. >> he's our leader going forward. he's well respected. gives him the clear mind that he >> reporter: cleared the clubhouse before debrowski's decision came down. >> door's always open. he gets here early. he stays late. he welcomes guys to come in and talk to him about if they have a problem or whatever it is. >> he's all i know as a manager coming up in the big leagues. play hard for him. that's all he asks of you. leave it all out there. that's all you can do to your team win. >> reporter: dave dembrowski says he cannot commit to 2018 before dis

and there's a lot of pressure on john feral to perform from the start. you second guess the time this year. there's no question about that. he responded in a big way this year in getting the sox on top of the ald east. >> you going to get fired? here we are. >> reporter: since a snowy eve of the american league divisional series. >> we come together with an offense that we felt good in spring training. that's grown to a point of being a unique one. i love the fact the way our rotation answered some of the potential questions about them and the way they performed. >> reporter: nobody on the sox staff performed better than the guy in game 1 rick forcello. >> having the bit of that lull there. we're going to be chomping at the bit to get back out there and playing again. >> great from day 1. as consistent as he can be in my mind. and you know every time he took the ball this year we felt we had a chance to win. >> reporter: in october frosello knows a whole new ball game. >> the biggest difference now competition. if you don't win these 3 games in the first

the sox wrapping up vp right around 6:30. 40 minutes ago john feral and david ortiz seem to be loose as we get set for game one. down the stretch with tweaks to they're going to follow that same stretch. brock holt start at third. bets and ortiz the 3, 4 spot. rookie andrew bennett endy will start ninth. take them out to a 1-0 series lead. >> this is the next step in the progression of a core group going to win a lot of games i lichen it to the year that pete i and elder and others came up. they can have conversation. i've had conversation with a couple of guys as well. in that the game is still the same. everything around it that nibe a potential noise for them. as long as they anticipate the situation the game is still the same. if they anticipate they'll make the right decisions. that's what it boils down to. offenses in the american league tonight. favorable pitching match up for the red sox. forcello with that era under 3 for the year. struggled against the red sox in his career. trey daerr 7 news. >> anchor: all right tray. enjoy that game n. cleveland as the red sox make that

he bounced back and tonight ears the start and a lot of respect from his own manager, john feral l. i young guy that was on the university of arkansas campus maybe 15 months ago, he's now in a major league post season. it's objects a rapid ascent, but as we've seen this is a pretty calm and veteran under control young player. so i'm sure there's going to be butterflies, we'll just hope they're flying in formation. >> it's been fun. i'm looking forward to it. watch. it's going to be awesome. >> a really cool, calm, selected kind of guy. one year ago he was playing in the college world series at the university of arkansas. he said the only difference he noticed so far was the media attention in the clubhouse. reporting on the field at cleveland, trey daerr, 7 sports. >> the red sox are well aware of what they're up in the did you o -- there's one characteristics n particular you need to know abot his new ball club. >> the fact up we never lost moe than three games in a row all year speaks to their resiliency. my goodness, i hope it doesn't start now. up wouldn't be good. but their wil