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The Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night go for their 12th consecutive victory, which would be the team's longest streak since June of 2006.

When was the last time the team won 13 in a row? You have to go back to the days of Williams, Pesky, Doerr and DiMaggio. From July 18 to July 27, 1948, the Sox won 13 straight en route to a 96-59 season. Joe McCarthy's team would eventually fall one game short of the World Series when it lost a one-game American League playoff to the Cleveland Indians, who finished the regular season tied with Boston for the pennant. Cleveland, in turn, would go on to meet the other Boston team, the "Miracle Braves," in a World Series won by the Indians, 4 games to 2. It was the last World Series ever won by the Tribe.

During the 13-game streak, which ended (oddly enough) with a 13-0 loss to the Detroit Tigers, the '48 Red Sox went from 5.5 games out of first place to 1 game ahead of the second-place Philadelphia Athletics. As with this current streak (so far), the victories came almost entirely at Fenway Park -- the Sox went 12-0 on a home stand before winning a game in Detroit, then being pummeled by the Tigers on July 28.

Since 1948, the Red Sox have won 12 consecutive games three times -- in 2006, in 1995 and during the Morgan's Magic run of 1988. Both the 1995 and 1988 teams went on to win their division; the 2006 team collapsed in late summer and finished in third place.

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