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July 21, 2016

G93: Red Sox 13, Twins 2 

Twins   - 000 020 000 -  2  5  1
Red Sox - 303 010 24x - 13 17  1
Mookie 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.

Tyler Duffey / Steven Wright
Betts, RF
Pedroia, 2B
Bogaerts, SS
Ortiz, DH
Ramirez, 1B
Bradley, CF
Shaw, 3B
Hanigan, C
Holt, LF
The 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.

(Update: The Orioles beat the Yankees 4-1 and moved into a first-place tie with the Red Sox.)
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4 comments:

  1. allanJuly 21, 2016 at 10:18 AM

    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.

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  2. allanJuly 21, 2016 at 10:34 AM

    "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.

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  3. allanJuly 21, 2016 at 1:12 PM

    BAL - 200 000 200 - 4 9 0
    MFY - 010 000 000 - 1 5 1

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  4. BenjaminJuly 21, 2016 at 2:58 PM

    "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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