Red Sox - 600 010 021 - 10 11 1 Yankees - 400 000 000 - 4 7 1Blake Swihart hit two home runs and drove in five runs. He capped an explosive first inning by hitting a three-run shot and added a two-run dong in the eighth.
Boston - who now has its first five-game winning streak of the season - is in sole possession of third place. ... Since August 17, the Red Sox are 25-14 (.641) - which is a 104-win pace over an entire season.
Rick Porcello: 8-6-4-1-8, 118. ... Mookie Betts homered and doubled.
Betts, CFRed Sox Press Notes:
Pedroia, 2B
Bogaerts, SS
Ortiz, DH
Shaw, 1B
Holt, RF
Swihart, C
Marrero, 3B
Bradley, LF
The Red Sox have allowed just 1 run over their last 4 games, matching the fewest runs allowed over any 4-game span in franchise history for the 6th time, and the first since the final 5 regulation games of 1978. They also did it in 4-game stretches in 1903, 1915, 1918, and 1919.The Toronto Blue Jays (91-65) can clinch their first AL East title since 1993 tonight if they beat the Orioles and Boston beats New York.
The Red Sox record for fewest total runs allowed in any 5-game stretch is 2 (July 3-6, 1915).
In 14 starts since the All-Star break, Jake Arrieta of the Cubs has allowed only nine earned runs for a microscopic ERA of 0.80. Is he having one of the best half-seasons of all-time? (I note that the Top 8 half-seasons according to "wOBA-Allowed" include both halves of Pedro's 2000 season!)
"You Get Serious Now?" --that's what I was saying to the Sox back when they were beating the Jays!
ReplyDeleteThe Red Sox have allowed just 1 run over their last 4 games, matching the fewest runs allowed
ReplyDeleteover any 4-game span in franchise history for the 6th time, and the first since the final 5 regulation games of 1978. They also did it in 4-game stretches in 1903, 1915, 1918, and
1919.
The Red Sox record for fewest total runs allowed in any 5-game stretch is 2 (July 3-6, 1915).
One Run Allowed In 4 Consecutive Games
ReplyDeleteJune 25-28, 1903
July 3-6, 1915
July 19-22, 1918
September 8-11, 1919
September 28-October 1, 1978
September 25-28, 2015
[In the last 6 regular season games of 1978, the Red Sox allowed only 3 runs.
The 1919 games were in 2 doubleheaders, one on the 8th and (after 2 days off) one on the 11th.]
Club record for 5 games is 2 runs, set July 3-6, 1915:
July 3: Beat A's 11-0 in 2nd game of DH
July 5: Beat Senators in DH 4-0 and 6-0
July 6: Beat Senators in DH 5-1 and 4-1
This is the first time the Red Sox have scored as many as 6 runs in the opening frame of a game against the Yankees since 9/26/89 (8-R 1st).
ReplyDeleteAt 23 years old, Blake Swihart is the youngest Red Sox catcher with a multi-homer game since Mike Ryan on May 2, 1965.
ELIAS:
ReplyDelete"Boston has played over 2000 regular season games against the Yankees, but it is just the seventh time the franchise has scored at least six runs in the first against the Bronx Bombers (with the last such game occurring at Fenway Park in September 1989). Of the six previous instances, only one took place in a Red Sox road game. That was all the way back on May 4, 1905, when the Sox scored six runs in the first and defeated the Highlanders at Hilltop Park (in New York's third year of existence)."