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Red Sox win Game 1

The Red Sox used strong pitching and hitting, and took advantage of mistakes by the Cardinals to win the first game of the World Series.

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Slugger David Ortiz took flight and scored on Mike Napoli’s double in the first inning.

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The Red Sox used strong pitching and big hits to defeat the Cardinals.

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David Ortiz hit a two-run home run in the seventh inning.

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Jon Lester had a shutout through seven innings.

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The view from the stands during the game.

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David Ross forced John Jay, right, out at the plate and then threw to first for a double play in the fourth.

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A pop up fell between Adam Wainwright and Yadier Molina in the second inning.

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David Ortiz scored after Dustin Pedroia and Jacoby Ellsbury in the first inning.

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Mike Napoli hit a bases-loaded double in the first inning, scoring three runs.

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Jon Lester started the game for the Red Sox.

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Carl Yastrzemski threw out the first pitch with three Medal of Honor winners.

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Red Sox are the whole show in Game 1

When do the St. Louis Cardinals get here for the 2013 World Series? Seriously. What was that Wednesday night?

Scenes from Game 1

Globe photographers shot the action in Game 1 of the 2013 World Series at Fenway Park.

Danvers teacher slain, quiet new student held

Colleen Ritzer, a teacher at Danvers High School, was found dead and a student, 14, is being held.

Colleen Ritzer was a paragon of caring

At 24, Ritzer had become a role model for many of her students at Danvers High School.

Connolly leads Walsh, but race is fluid, Globe poll finds

Mayoral hopeful John R. Connolly holds an 8 percentage point lead over Martin J. Walsh, though the race remains in flux.

Both rivals promise inclusive mayoralty

Martin Walsh and John Connolly agreed that there are too many inequities in communities of color, compared to the rest of the city.

Report faults Boston cabs, oversight

Key findings of a review commissioned after a Globe Spotlight Team report earlier this year calls for sweeping changes to the way the city regulates the taxi industry.

Opinion

Alex Beam

Lee Harvey Oswald, reconsidered

For decades, Oswald was seen as a cog in a larger machine, a patsy for dark forces united to kill America’s charismatic young president.

Globe exclusives

Donald Berwick helped build the base to the US health care law.

Don Berwick reflects on health law woes

“Massachusetts”is a pretty inane and unfunny follow-up to “The Fox,” the intentionally absurd song from a Norwegian comedy act named Ylvis.

‘Massachusetts,’ new song by Ylvis, takes off, falls flat

TECH LAB

Google laptop rates a victory lap

Yvonne Abraham

Dobelle and Regan: Two of a kind

Robert Redford as a lone sailor on a sinking boat on the Indian Ocean.

Movie Review

Redford sails in the stunning ‘All Is Lost’

Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina, left, shared a laugh with Red Sox assistant hitting coach Victor Rodriguez on Tuesday.

Dan Shaughnessy

This World Series needs some villains

October 15, 1946: Enos Slaughter of the St. Louis Cardinals slid home with what would be the winning run in game seven of the World Series. Slaughter scored all the way from first base on Harry Walker’s double to left center. Johnny Pesky, the Red Sox shortstop, hesitated on the throw as Slaughter ran. Pesky said later, “I couldn’t hear anybody. There was too much yelling. It looked like an ordinary single. I thought he’d hold up at third so late in the game.” The Cardinals won the World Series in this seventh game 4-3.

From the Archives | photo gallery

Red Sox vs. Cardinals in the World Series

Heather Abbot was one of many amputees who threw out a ceremonial first pitch at Fenway Park.

Sox, bombing-scarred Boston rise together

Opinion | Geoff Edgers

Please, banish ‘Sweet Caroline’

Clockwise from top left, Tom Vasic of Adelaide, Australia; Peter Rice of Falls Church, Va.; Tom Good, a Maine native; and Brian Eschler of Colorado show off their Sox pride.

Red Sox fans bond over their beards

Dining out

His own place on his own terms

John Connolly and Martin Walsh appeared in their second debate of the general election.

JOANNA WEISS

Connolly’s night during debate

World Series

Christopher L. Gasper

Visitors lost the handle early

In Game 1 of the 109th World Series, the lauded Cardinal Way gave way to Cardinal Sins in the field.

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Julian Edelman (11) has been one of Tom Brady’s few familiar targets in the passing game.

Tom Brady having an off year

Brady is on pace for career lows — or career highs — in a few statistical categories, and is putting up numbers typically seen from mediocre quarterbacks.

Boston mayoral race

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John Connolly spoke outside City Hall on Wednesday.

Poll finds Connolly clinging to narrow lead over Walsh

The new poll shows John Connolly leading Martin Walsh, 41 percent to 39 percent, in Boston’s mayoral race.

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Suzanne Lee chatted wtih South Boston resident Dennis Missett Jr. as she bids to win election to the City Council.

Suzanne Lee, Bill Linehan fight again for District 2 seat

Lee has been pounding the pavement in South Boston, trying to finish what she started two years ago: unseat sitting city councilor Linehan, who won’t go down easily.