Red Sox - 001 001 003 - 5 11 1 Tigers - 001 100 100 - 3 7 1David Ortiz's three-run home run off Joba Chamberlain gave the Red Sox a win.
Holt, LFPsst: Xander Bogaerts is awesome.
Bogaerts, 3B
Pedroia, 2B
Ortiz, DH
Napoli, 1B
Pierzynski, C
Nava, RF
Drew, SS
Bradley, CF
I love Tom Shieber's Baseball Researcher blog. His last three posts all concern Babe Ruth: an Arkansas postcard (see below), a photo in front of a Hot Springs hotel, and some video footage from 1925. ... Actually, his last four posts feature the Colossus, dating back to last September!
Dick Hayhurst: A Major League Pitcher's Guide To Baseball's Bullshit Unwritten Rules. ... There are eephus pitches, and then there is this! ... Jeter: Bonehead. ... Thanks to this article, I now know there was a 20-pitch at-bat in the last 26 years: Ricky Gutierrez against Bartolo Colon on June 26, 1998:
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Imagine if there was a 20-pitch at-bat in a 26-inning game! Your head would explode.
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