July 15: All Five AL East Teams Over .500

After being swept in four games by the Rays, the Red Sox got up and beat the Yankees 5-4 in 11 innings at YSIII on Friday. A wild pitch - with two outs and an 0-2 count on the batter - brought in the go-ahead run.

All five American League East teams began Friday with records over .500! That includes the Orioles, who have finished the last three full seasons with 115, 108, and 110 losses. If Baltimore had that record in the AL Central, they'd be only three games out!

Yankees     62  27
Rays        49  40
Red Sox     47  43
Blue Jays   47  43
Orioles     45  44

It's the third season in the Wild Card Era (excluding 2020) that a division has had all of its teams above .500 on or after July 13:

2005 NL East (multiple days)
2012 AL East (July 15)

Most games with 10+ strikeouts AND 2+ RBI in single season (since RBI official, 1920)

1946 Hal Newhouser    3
1999 Kevin Millwood   3
2022 Shohei Ohtani    3

50+ strikeouts and one or zero earned runs allowed in a five-outing span (since ER official, 1913)

1997 Randy Johnson
2012 R.A. Dickey
2014 Clayton Kershaw
2015 Clayton Kershaw
2018 Chris Sale
2022 Shohei Ohtani