October not only means fall weather, sweaters and pumpkin spice lattes, but also means it is time for the World Series of baseball. This year’s World series between the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals was very intense and filled with passion and led to some interesting endings to some of the games.

In Game 3, umpire Jim Joyce made a controversial call that led to the Cardinals winning the game. Joyce called obstruction on Boston third baseman Will Middlebrooks, which gave Cardinal Allen Craig a free pass to home with the winning run. Many fans were upset with the ruling because of how the call resulted in the Cardinals winning the game.

“It was the right call but it is a dumb rule when a player can be called for obstruction when the result is not intentional,” said Blake Howard.

In the next game, the Cardinals were rallying in the bottom of the ninth inning when Red Sox closer Koji Uehara picked off Cardinal Kolten Wong to end the game. It was a strange ending to such an intense game and devastated the Cardinals.

“I was rooting for the Cardinals and thought it was the right call and was happy with it because all the Red Sox fans got mad. Overall I thought it was a good series even though the Cardinals didn’t win,” said Hayden Gibson.

After all this the Boston Red Sox overcame these endings to eventually  win the World Series in six games and celebrated a season of success.