Broom and gloom

DENVER - There’s a new monster in baseball, and this one’s in Boston, too.

Overwhelming in every way, the Red Sox swept to their second title in four years Sunday night. Jon Lester, Mike Lowell & Co. left little room for drama with a 4-3 win over the Colorado Rockies in Game 4.

Then again, no National League team could have blocked Boston this October.

This was hardly a repeat from 2004, when the Red Sox ended their 86-year championship drought by beating St. Louis. Boston is a major league bully these days, playing in rarefied air before crowds who demand to win.

“It doesn’t get old,” manager Terry Francona said.

After rallying from a 3-1 deficit against Cleveland in the AL championship series, the Red Sox won seven straight games and won their seventh World Series crown.

At this rate, New England fans might get spoiled. Francona’s team has become a perfect counterpart to coach Bill Belichick’s bruisers on the Patriots.

After trailing Cleveland 3-1 in the American League Championship Series, the Red Sox won seven straight games and won their seventh World Series crown.

The wild card Rockies, who won a remarkable 21 of 22 games to get this far, were a mere afterthought by the end. Brad Hawpe homered in the seventh inning, and Garrett Atkins hit a two-run shot in the eighth that came too late.

“At the end of the day, you look back on the game. How did you execute?” Rockies manager Clint Hurdle said. “They executed better than us all four games.”

Lester, undergoing chemotherapy at this time last year for cancer, pitched shutout ball into the sixth inning, and Jonathan Papelbon closed with his third save of the Series.

Lowell won the MVP award, though Boston had plenty of candidates. Especially in a year in which Japanese stars Daisuke Matsuzaka and Hideki Okajima helped put the world in World Series.

“It took all 25 of us to get the job done,” Papelbon said. “It’s just phenomenal.”

Rookie Jacoby Ellsbury got it started with a leadoff double and, even without big contributions from sluggers Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz, Boston was too good. Bobby Kielty made the most of his first appearance in this Series, connecting for a pinch-hit home run in the eighth.

Coors Field was filled with Red Sox fans, many of them brazenly waving brooms they might have brought from the Green Monster seats at Fenway Park.

“This team’s got a lot of heart,” Boston catcher Jason Varitek said. “We worked really hard. We just beat a very, very good team.”

AT A GLANCE

Game 1: Boston 13, Colorado 1

Game 2: Boston 2, Colorado 1

Game 3: Boston 10, Colorado 5

Game 4: Boston 4, Colorado 3, Red Sox win series 4-0