. >> let's go out to fenway park and say hello to senior writer ken rosenthal of foxsports.com. here prior to game six, questions regarding alex avila's availability. >> alex avila is in the lineup and jim leyland is confident he'll be able to play the entire game. leyland said he wouldn't want to start avila and have to pull him after the third or fourth inning. when the tigers removed avila in game five part of their idea was him to start treatment immediately and be ready for tonight. avila had a full day of rest and treatment on thursday. this is not a new jeer for him. he first hurt his knee in 2011 and has become accustomed to dealing with it. >> for boston, as good as mike napoli was for the rangers a couple of postseasons ago he seems to have added a new dimension to his postseason game this time around.

down the ken rosenthal with dustin pedroia. >> ken: dustin, the way that game was going, if i had told were going the win it, what would you have said? >> well, i think that i would have seen some crazy things around this ballpark, but i don't think that we were looking at the big picture, but trying to find a way to go one pitch at a time. they pitched us so tough for the first couple of games, and so just trying to pass it to the next guy and get the tying run to the plate, and luckily, it was david. >> ken: wen you got the hit, you pointed to david. did you think that the next pitch the game would be tied? >> i mean, i know he likes those situations. he just put a great swing on it, and back spun it and the ball was not traveling with the cold, but it was a first emotion. it was a great swing. >> ken: dustin, it obviously does not get easier. verlander in the next game, and at the same time, is this a momentum changer? >> yeah. it is a big win chblt i mean, they are up five runs and we came back to win this ball game and kind of stole it, but it is never easy with these guys. they h

. >> joe: let's go down to the field and ken rosenthal. >> ken: mike, first three at-bats, sanchez sogame one and you, as well. what was the difference tonight? >> turned a page. can't dwell on the first start you have. just come out here and try to hit mistakes and put a couple good swings on pitches and able to drop them. >> ken: lester pitched out of trouble. your bullpen terrific again. how impressed were you that the pitchers hold down the good offense? >> lester's been doing a great job all year. tough the whole postseason. it's a great team win and a huge win for us tonight. >> ken: thanks a lot. >> thanks. >> ken: over to erin andrews. >> erin: you said you have few more gray hairs but how can you when the guy like that is on the mound? >> he's a horse for us all year. the horse in the back end. they got a big double play with them. jonny lester, he battled late. the mechanical issues, he -- we got a couple leadoff walks. we cannot have them walking. they're too powerful. >> erin: and the bats battled tonight. what was the difference over anibal sanchez? >> we had a good plan

ken rosenthal, you have learned any more about the overall health of that foot for allen craig? en: he had x-rays and they said they were negative. mike matheny told me he was ready. craig said he was ready. he favored that leg. he looked uncomfortable. as you said, here he is. >> joe: the count 1-1. a sprained left foot on the fourth of september. he hits one into deep right. back at the wall, it's up against the wall, and allen craig will make it only to first on a ball that he gets over the head of nava in right. and colton long came off the edge. pinch run for craig. >> tim: on one leg, a long single. >> joe: he can't run right now, but he can still hit. and craig is given the cardinals a chance here in the ninth inning. long is the pinch runner. carpenter up. league leader in hits during the regular season. and beltran, 16 career postseason home runs on deck. still drama left in game four. ball one to carpenter. >> tim: napoli is holding him on. you almost give him second base. it's a two-run lead. not a one-run lead. he's not going to try to steal. >> joe: and by hoeing him

tazawa back to the hill and down we go to ken rosenthal. >> ken: another cuban defector, a first baseman $68 million contract. expected to sign with the chicago white sox, the long-term replacement of paul cokonerko. $12 million more than yu darvish. 26 million more than puig got. >> joe: thanks. so that's big news for the white sox. chicago finished this season in last place in the a.l. central. 30 games out behind detroit. iglesias will be the hitter. tazawa continuing to take his warm-up tosses. we remind you tonight's game is sponsored by -- talking to john farrell during the course of this series and about tazawa. it's his preference to not have tazawa come in, sit down and then go back out to work. he's got breslow ready. whether it's just a first batter or the first sign of trouble. playing the bottom of the seventh. close eye on tazawa who drops a breaking ball low. ball one. >> tim: three right handers will be hitting against tazawa. iglesias, hunter and cabrera. and then the left hander will be prince fielder and i assume that's why breslow is warming in the red sox bullpen. ev

and for what jon lester went through and how he honors what he went through, let's go down to ken rosenthal. >> ken: joe, lester's done great work in recent years to help kids with cancer. last year and his wife launched nvrqt. that's short for never quit. the idea is to raise money for research and awareness and also did a number of meet and greets in different markets this season with kids undergoing treatment and remained contact with a 6-year-old boy he met in los angeles, among others. >> joe: thanks, ken. and here is a tweet from jon lester. there's zane. zane's got to be awfully proud of how his friend jon lester pitched here in game one. >> tim: along with 40,000 strong at fenway. >> joe: off the end of the bat to keep the count 0-2. robinson got the start tonight after going 2 for 2 in game six against kershaw. against the left handed starter lester. in place of jon jay. now both jay and robinson are in the lineup because beltran left with an injury in the second. here's another 0-2. how about jon lester tonight? in total control. he's struck out eight. and allowed no runs on five

. >> joe: on the heels of this 1-0 boston victory let's go down to the field and ken rosenthal. >> kenah, i mean, a lot of talk tonight's game about verlander, verlander's a competitor but go ahead and grab the other side and what john lackey did for the detroit tigers and then adding on with our bull pen. verlander, we -- >> ken: what made lackey so good tonight? >> i mean i got the good old country fastball and at the same time he's threeing 3-0 sliders to peralta for strikes. he had all the pitches working. not a whole lot of shape, had a plan and stuck with it. >> ken: for you guys going up 2-1 now how much bigger is this victory than it might have been otherwise simply because it was verlander? >> with where we're at right now in detroit it was pretty tough. you know it's kind of like feeding the animals, giving them wind, you know, so i mean this team can play at home. this team can play on the road. and you know i mean we won a game with four hits tonight. so it says a lot about this team. says a lot about us coming in here. so we're definitely going to, you know, turn this into

the starter and winner for detroit, doug fister, who is standing by with ken rosenthal. >> ken: doug, six innings, one run. what was the game plan, what worked? >> you know, game plan was just really go after him, start attacking and really kind of mix it up and really try and keep him offbalance at possible. i think the biggest thing was just execution and defense was a huge pickup today. >> ken: you guys suffered two tough losses. how much pressure did you feel to win this game? >> you know, every time weapon go out there, we're looking to win the ball game. and put a shoutdown as much as e can on the other team. we were fortunate today. we don't look at pressure as a negative thing. well go out there and play as loose as possible and that's when we play our best and so, guys did that today, offense came out swinging the bats very well. put them on the defensive and, you know, just really attacked them. >> ken: doug, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> joe: guys, thank you. we look ahead to tomorrow night, game five of the alcs, from here in detroit. it will be a rematch of game o

let's go down to ken rosenthal. >> ken: thanks, joe. jon, a 0.59 e.r.a. in two world series starts. you were in control from the beginning tonight. what made it happen for you out there tonight? >> i don't know. i think the biggest thing is me and rossie have had a good rhythm the past three or four starts together. early on we just went back to our game plan from game one and just fell back on that and really tried to make them start swinging the bats early. we were able to do that, kept the pitch count down and tried to grind out later innings there. >> ken: ross hit the double just before you were scheduled to hit and that put you ahead in the game. would you have stayed in the game if the game had remained tied? >> i don't know. i mean i was out there, so i don't know. obviously you saw my swings tonight, they're not all that great. so, you know, that's manager john's decision and if he would have pulled me, that's kind of the beast of national league baseball. so -- but fortunate for us rossie hit that double, pushed one across and then jake gets a hit after me. seems like it's

>> joe: let's go down to ken rosenthal. >> ken: shane this is the first red sox team to win a world series1918. how much did you talk about that, the idea of making history? >> you know, honestly with this team, we focus all year long. our goal from day one was to be the best team that we could possibly be. we wanted to end up here. we worked hard every single day. hey, we're world champs. i can't believe it! >> ken: shane, you won a world series. we all know what happened here in april in the marathon. how much more meaningful is it to win this series in this park in this city? >> hey, all i know isser that affected in the tragedy. boston strong! thank you very much. that's all i got to say. >> ken: now what about your b e bases loaded at bat. you've had magic in the postseason. >> my parents always told me, take every moment, live every moment, love every moment. i just said hey, i got another moment. i missed two games. time to shine. do what can you. i was able to get in a good hitter's count. put the ball up the wall. enjoy it. >> ken: congratulations. now over to erin andrews. >> eri

goes back in to the cardinals clubhouse as the red sox are up one game to nothing and down to ken rosenthalood? >> locating both sides of the plate. the cutter's so tough and when we goes away to righties and locates the way he does, pretty impressive tonight. >> ken: the play in the first inning, play overturned, what did you think when you were called out at second base? >> well, i was trying to slide in there and break up two and kind of saw wasn't on the transfer. but i mean, he calls you out you have to run off the field but they got it right. >> ken: how surprised were you that they overturned it? >> i don't know. they have great umpires out there. there's a lot of them. they try to get it right. that's the best way to do things. >> ken: last thing, dustin. 2007 was your last world series. how much fun is it being back? >> it's a blast. we're the last two teams playing. both teams played their tails off all yearlong getting to this point and you have to have fun and enjoy it and play the best you can. >> ken: thanks a lot. over to erin andrews. >> erin: thanks so much. papi, the call

we go down the ken rosenthal. >> ken: thank you, joe.hree pitchers all 23 and under, and how hard to believe what they are doing. >> well, it does not surprise me. they have talent and like i said before, they are not afraid to pitch. >> ken: martinez getting through the eighth, and how did he do it? >> well, unbelievable. this kid, he is not afraid and he throws the sinker, and doubled down and that is the key. >> ken: so emotional coming off of the mound, and what did he say to you? >> well, last night he gave up the run gamagainst them and to nigh, it was like, nobody is going to get a hit against me, and so he was pumped up, and that is good for us. >> ken: and wacha, seemed like one mistake the pitch to ortiz, and how did you assess the performance? >> well, he pitch outstanding and keep us in the game. that is what we asked for him and just one pitch to a great hitter like big papi and we take a hat off to him, but i mean, he pitched good tonight. >> ken: yadier, thank you very much and over to erin andrews. >> erin: we know that y

series this year and after the disappointing results here in game six moments ago spoke with our ken rosenthaltheny. mike, michael wacha was so good all postseason wachlt was different tonight? >> well, i think they jumped on a couple pitches and got more plate than what they normally do. but every time i see them pitch, they're going to be more educated. we have to stay under the curve. and they came out very prepared. they got the big hits. >> the guys led the series 2-1. you had two more game at home at that point. obviously things didn't work out the way you wanted. from your perspective, what happened? >> well, i think it comes down to what we just talk about. they got big hits when they needed to. i think we both had good pitching all the way through the series. when it comes down to it, you have to have all those components and one of them is timely hitting. we weren't able to get those. we put balls in play hard. we couldn't get that one to kind of make them bend a little bit. that's baseball. our guys played real hard. i couldn't be more proud the way they carry themselves and the way

meeting with lester had with a little boy suffering from cancer during last night's game fox's ken rosenthale in this shoutout. >> lester has done some great work in recent years to help kids with cancer. last year he and his fife farrah launched nvrqt, that's short for never quit, and the idea is to raise money and awareness for the pediatric cancer research foundation. lester also did a number of meets and greets with kids who are undergoing treatment x he has remained in contact with a 6-year-old boy he met in los angeles among others. >> thanks, ken. and here is a tweet from jon lester -- jon: well, right now zane is undergoing a combination of chemotherapy, radiation and bone marrow transplants. his parents say he is in good spirits and even got to watch the beginning of last night's game. the score had to pump him up. if you want to learn more, check out the pediatric cancer research foundation's web site at pcrf-kids.org. harris: that smile is just so beautiful. the disastrous rollout of the health care web site getting its first public airing on capitol hill. it's been spirited insid