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Colorado's Rockies rolled into the first World Series in their 15-year history with a 6-4 win over the Diamondbacks, sweeping the National League Championship Series and adding another notch to an historic string of wins that has become both unbelievable and undeniable. The Rockies have won 10 straight now, seven of them in the postseason. They are the only team in the wild-card era to win their first seven postseason games, and only the second team in Major League history to do so. (The Reds won all seven games they played back in 1976, when only two postseason rounds existed.) The Rox have won 21 of their last 22, too, something that's never been done at this time of year. The out-of-nowhere streak has pushed the city into a virtual Rockies frenzy -- more than 50,000 people packed Coors Field on Monday -- sent baseball historians scurrying into the stacks and stunned everyone around baseball.

The Diamondbacks, who won more games than any other team in the NL and came into this series on a roll of their own after sweeping the Cubs in the NL Division Series, just happen to be the latest group of one-time non-believers to slink away from Denver shaking their heads.

Jake Westbrook, often overlooked in Cleveland's top-heavy starting rotation, kept Boston grounded for nearly seven innings Monday night, leading the Indians to a 4-2 win over the Red Sox and a 2-1 lead in the AL championship series. With two more games at Jacobs Field, the Indians, who haven't won it all since 1948, are in control of a best-of-seven series that seemed to belong to Boston after the opener. But as they did against the New York Yankees in the opening round, the Indians are showing they can swing with baseball's big boys. And we in the Nation are getting that old feeling...

MLB World Series