Red Sox - 100 100 003 000 017 - 13 21 1 Rays - 100 201 010 000 010 - 6 13 3You don't need me to tell you. Just looking at that linescore, you know this was a crazy game. (I missed most of it, sadly.)
The Red Sox played their fourth game this season of at least 15 innings:
July 15 - Yankees 4, Red Sox 1 (16)There have also been two 13-inning games (May 17 and July 25) .
July 18 - Red Sox 5, Blue Jays 4 (15)
September 5 - Red Sox 3, Blue Jays 2 (19)
September 15 - Red Sox 13, Rays 6 (15)
This one lasted 6:05 - five minutes longer than the 19-inning affair against Toronto ten days ago - and featured Boston rallying for three runs in the ninth inning off Crooked Capped Alex Colome. Both teams scored in the fourteenth before the Red Sox sent 12 men to the plate and scored seven times in the fifteenth.
Austin Pruitt pitching.Chris Sale (5.2-6-4-3-9, 97) was not in ace mode. He walked two consecutive batters in the first inning on nine pitches. ... Joe Kelly pitched three perfect innings (11-12-13), retiring his nine batters on only 33 pitches.
Jackie Bradley walked.
Xander Bogaerts singled to shallow left, Bradley to second.
Dustin Pedroia safe at first on second baseman's error, Bradley scored (7-6), Bogaerts to third.
Chase Whitley relieved Pruitt.
Andrew Benintendi singled to center, Bogaerts scored (8-6), Pedroia to second.
Mookie Betts lined out to right.
Mitch Moreland singled to center, Pedroia scored (9-6), Benintendi to third.
Rafael Devers reached on fielder's choice to first, Benintendi scored (10-6), Moreland to second on first baseman's error.
Deven Marrero doubled to right, Moreland and Devers scored (12-6).
Blake Swihart flied out to left.
Bradley hit by pitch.
Bogaerts singled to left, Marrero scored (13-6), Bradley to second.
Pedroia reached on fielder's choice to shortstop, Bogaerts out at second.
Bogaerts went 4-for-7, while Betts and Moreland each had three hits. Moreland also scored three runs.
AL: Cleveland lost for the first time since August 23, falling to the Royals 4-3. The Yankees beat the Orioles 8-2 and remain 3 GB in the East.
Bogaerts, SSThe Red Sox are on a three-city, nine-game road trip. Tonight will be the first game the Rays have played at Tropicana Field since Hurricane Irma hit Florida. (I'm wondering about the crowds for these games. While still in the aftermath of such a destructive storm, how many people are going to shell out money for baseball tickets?)
Pedroia, DH
Benintendi, LF
Betts, RF
Moreland, 1B
Devers, 3B
Holt, 2B
Leon, C
Bradley, CF
After three games against the Rays, the Red Sox will travel to Baltimore (three games) and Cincinnati (three games). Then it's back to Fenway Park for three games against the Blue Jays and four against the Astros. And that's the end of the regular season. The ALDS begins on Thursday, October 5.
In 35 innings (five starts) against Tampa Bay this season, Sale has 57 strikeouts.
David Price will be available out of the bullpen beginning on Sunday or Monday. He could be a multi-inning weapon in the postseason for "Playoff Farrell". (Does "Playoff Farrell" exist?)
MFY Watch: The Yankees are 3 GB in the East. ... BAL/MFY, 7 PM.
Judge Notes (re last night):
ReplyDeleteAaron Judge has hit 11 homers against the Orioles this season, tying the all-time single-season record by a rookie against one team. In 1934, Cleveland's Hal Trosky hit 11 against the White Sox.
Judge has scored 27 runs against the Orioles this year. The all-time mark for a rookie against one team in a season: 28 runs by Ted Williams, against the Philadelphia Athletics in 1939.
The MFY have 3 more games against Baltimore.
Elias:
ReplyDeleteThis was the first game this season that the Red Sox won after trailing by three or more runs in the ninth inning or later.
It was also Boston's second 15+ inning win this month. The last teams to win a pair of 15+ inning games in September were the Orioles and the Cardinals, both in 1974.
Nine Red Sox pitchers combined for 24 strikeouts. That's the highest total of strikeouts ever run up by Boston pitchers in a game of any length, breaking the mark of 23 strikeouts set in a 10-inning game at Tampa Bay last September and tied in a game against Toronto earlier this month.
What's the regular season record for # of innings played by a team? And are the Sox close?
ReplyDeleteGood question. BRef's Play Index does not allow you to search for highest season totals for teams, though.
ReplyDeleteI looked at 2016:
Most Innings: Astros, 1468.0
Fewest Innings, Angels, 1421.1
Only a difference of 46.2 innings over a season.
While searching around, I found this: The 1943 Red Sox played in a record 31 extra inning games. But they pitched only 1426.1 innings - just 5 innings more than the last place team in 2016. (Of course, the Angels played a slightly longer schedule.)