Yankees - 602 630 000 - 17 19 0 Red Sox - 600 001 600 - 13 18 0When I checked in on this game, after seeing a tweet about the shortest outing of Rick Porcello's career (0.1-5-6-1-0, 33), the Red Sox were coming to bat for the first time, already down 6-0. Shit. I looked again a bit later before I headed out and it was 6-6. ... I had two thoughts: that has to be a typo or I'm hallucinating.
I'm not even going to attempt to summarize this game. As you might have suspected, it's the first Red Sox-Yankees game in which both teams scored at least six runs in the first inning. I also cannot imagine there are many games in baseball history with four "6"s in the linescore.
The 30 runs is the second-highest total in a Red Sox-Yankees game, one shy of the Yankees' 20-11 win on August 21, 2009. (Oh...and FU, CHB! Too bad you can't be all spooky and ominous about the 19-18 hit totals.)
The first inning featured 20 batters and 92 pitches - and took 58 minutes. Masahiro Tanaka had a similarly shitty outing (0.2-4-6-2-0, 37). The two starters faced a total of 15 batters and had this line: 1-9-12-3-0, 70. That's a 108.00 ERA.
Michael Chavis hit two three-run homers and Jackie Bradley had four hits. ... D.J. LeMahieu went 4-for-6 with five RBI, Luke Voit went 4-for-4, and Edwin Encarnacion went 1-for-6 with five strikeouts. (EE has played on three continents this season, as he was with the Mariners for their season-opening series in Japan.)
It was the first time since June 23, 1989, that two teams both scored six or more runs in the first inning. On that day, the visiting Blue Jays led the Athletics 7-6 after one inning.
It's also the third game since earned runs became official in 1912 in which both starters gave up six runs and didn't finish the first inning. There was the aforementioned 1989 game in Oakland and the Red Sox/Browns game of August 4, 1948 (in which some fish-eyed fool got the win for St. Louis).
I'm calling it now: Sunday's game will go 14 innings and end 1-0.
Betts, RF
Devers, 3B
Bogaerts, SS
Martinez, DH
Benintendi, LF
Vázquez, C
Holt, 2B
Chavis, 1B
Bradley, CF
Today's game will be the first major league game played in Europe.
Jessica Camerato, mlb.com:
With all the sights to see and fanfare to take in, though, this is very much a work trip for the Red Sox. ...The Yankees - winners of 10 of their last 11 games - have homered in a major-league record 29 consecutive games.
Take the first item of business on Christian Vázquez's London to-do list, as an example.
"Beat the Yankees," he said.
And why is that?
"Because I hate the Yankees," he replied.
Sam Travis will be the 26th player on the Red Sox's roster for this series.
AL East: Rangers/Rays, 4 PM. ... MFY –, TBR 7.0, BOS 9.0.
And: The rest of the Fridays broadcast:
2 comments:
When I watch football (i.e., soccer) on British tv, I am equally bored and mystified. What is the thrill? What are all these subtleties and nuances the announcers are yammering about? How can this be the national sport?
I imagine a member of the British public watching baseball will be equally bored and mystified.
I can see the rationale for playing major league games in baseball-savvy places like Japan, Mexico, or Puerto Rico. Great Britain? No.
Regards Allan's comments - was listening & they said only 6 games since 1912 had both teams score 6 or more in the 1st & that 1989 game was the last time it happened
So I did some rough Maths & figure about 300 000 games in 120 odd years & it really was a 50 000 to 1 occurrence ?
Was laughing thinking some of
the Brits there are thinking 1 hour per innings ????? This could finish tomorrow .....
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