Twins - 000 020 000 - 2 5 1 Red Sox - 303 010 24x - 13 17 1Mookie Betts drilled the Twins' first pitch of the game for a home run - and the Red Sox never looked back. The first four batters in the Boston batting order went 14-for-19, with 10 runs scored and nine RBI.
Dustin Pedroia went 5-for-5 - the fifth five-hit game of his career - and three other hitters collected three hits: Betts, Xander Bogaerts, and David Ortiz. Ortiz drove in four runs (two coming on an eighth-inning home run) and Jackie Bradley drove in three. Betts, Pedroia, and Bogaerts each scored three runs.
Steven Wright (8-4-2-1-9, 108) retired the first 13 batters and allowed only one earned run.
Betts, RFThe top three teams in the AL East are separated by only one game: Boston is in first, followed by the Orioles (0.5 GB) and Blue Jays (1.0 GB). ... Balrtimore plays the Yankees this afternoon. ... Toronto has the day off.
Pedroia, 2B
Bogaerts, SS
Ortiz, DH
Ramirez, 1B
Bradley, CF
Shaw, 3B
Hanigan, C
Holt, LF
(Update: The Orioles beat the Yankees 4-1 and moved into a first-place tie with the Red Sox.)
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July 21, 1915: Babe Ruth goes 4-for-4 with two doubles and a long home run, knocking in three runs as the Red Sox beat St. Louis 4-2. Ruth also pitches a complete game, scattering five hits.
"Classic Gameday" was missing from the options for last night's game. I assumed MLB had - in its finite wisdom - canned it. But it is available for the BAL/MFY game this afternoon.
BAL - 200 000 200 - 4 9 0
MFY - 010 000 000 - 1 5 1
"Classic Gameday" was missing from the options for last night's game. I assumed MLB had - in its finite wisdom - canned it. But it is available for the BAL/MFY game this afternoon.
It was available but mislinked. You could get it if you edited the url appropriately. Tonight's should be: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2016_07_21_minmlb_bosmlb_1&mode=classic
Note, the gameid consists of:
the year;
the month;
the day;
the name of the away team, which is a three letter acronym plus "mlb";
the name of the home team (ditto); and
the number "1" or, if it's the second game of a double header, the number "2"
I'll be sad when they finally do get rid of it, since it's much more legible than the "new" gameday.
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