Red Sox have tall fan at Franklin Park Zoo

BOSTON, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- The fan base of the World Series champion Boston Red Sox grew by one at the Franklin Park Zoo, where staff named a new baby giraffe "Sox."

Born Oct. 25 -- the day of Game 2 of the Sox's four-game sweep of the Colorado Rockies -- inside the giraffe barn at the Zoo, Sox weighed 154 pounds, and measured 6 feet, 2 inches, the zoo said in a release. Her parents, Beau and Jana, among the two most genetically valuable Masai giraffes in captivity in North America, were brought together in 2004 to breed.

“Our beloved New England institutions -- Franklin Park Zoo and the Red Sox -- both have a reason to celebrate," said John Linehan, Zoo New England president and chief executive.

Beau and Jana were bred as part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Giraffe Population Management Plan.

“We’re proud of Jana, for a delivery as perfect as (Boston pitcher) Josh Beckett’s!” Linehan said.