June 8, 2015

More On Boston's Historic Sunday Comeback

Elias:
The Red Sox, who trailed 4-0 heading to the bottom of the eighth inning [on Sunday], have won only three other games at Fenway Park in which they trailed by four or more runs in the eighth inning or later while being held scoreless. Boston's other victories of that kind occurred in 1931 (6-5 over the Philadelphia Athletics), 2007 (6-5 over the Orioles) and 2014 (5-4 over the White Sox).
May 30, 1931 (2nd game)
Athletics - 020 210 000 - 5  8  0
Red Sox   - 000 000 006 - 6 12  2
May 13, 2007
Orioles   - 200 010 110 - 5  8  2
Red Sox   - 000 000 006 - 6  7  3
July 9, 2014
White Sox - 110 100 100 - 4 10  0
Red Sox   - 000 000 032 - 5  9  1
June 7, 2015
Athletics - 030 100 000 - 4 11  0
Red Sox   - 000 000 07x - 7 13  0
Also from Elias:
Chris Archer struck out 11 batters and walked none as he and the Rays beat the Mariners on Sunday. Archer became the first pitcher in baseball's modern era (1900 to date) to strike out at least 10 batters without issuing a walk in each of three consecutive games. Archer fanned 15 Angels in his previous start (June 2) and he whiffed a dozen Mariners in his start before that (May 27).
And: Don't ask David Ortiz if he is washed up.

4 comments:

allan said...

Bogaerts's 2-RBI double changed Boston's WPA from 33% to 87%!

allan said...

And check out the line from the 1st game in 1931's DH: Philadelphia gets 5 in the 12th and wins 5-0.

FenFan said...

Being a personal witness to history is always awesome!

Jake of All Trades said...

That 2007 game was the mother's day miracle...