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July 22, 2022

The Red Sox Have Allowed 55 Runs In Their Last Three Games
Boston's -47 Run Differential In Three-Game Span Is MLB's Worst In 128 Years


The Red Sox have been outscored 55-8 in their last three games.
July 16: Yankees 14, Red Sox 1
July 17: Yankees 13, Red Sox 2
July 22: Blue Jays 28, Red Sox 5
That -47 run differential is the worst over a three-game span by any major league team since the Louisville Colonels allowed 60 runs over three games in 1894 (August 15-17: 4-14, 3-17, 4-29).

56 - 1950 Browns
55 - 2022 Red Sox
54 - 1999 Cubs
54 - 1950 Browns (overlapping with above span)
52 - 1936 Philadelphia Athletics
Friday's pasting featured the most runs ever allowed by the Red Sox and the most runs ever scored by the Blue Jays.

The Red Sox had not lost a game by more than 20 runs in almost a century (since September 28, 1923).
Blue Jays - 127 4(11)2 001 - 28 29  2
Red Sox   - 000 3  0 1 100 -  5 10  2
The Blue Jays scored 25 runs in the first five innings, tying a major league record set by the Cubs almost exactly 100 years ago, on August 25, 1922; they scored 25 runs in the first four innings (1-10-0-14) and nearly lost the game, before hanging on and winning 26-23. They beat the Phillies, who used only two pitchers!

About Toronto's 11-run fifth inning . . . Kaleb Ort retired the first two batters!
Ort pitching, Blue Jays lead 14-3.
Guerrero struck out.
Kirk grounded out to first unassisted.
Bichette singled to right.
Hernandez singled to right.
Gurriel singled to center (15-3).
Chapman singled to pitcher (16-3).
Espinal walked.
Jansen singled to right (17-3).
Tapia doubled to center (19-3).
Mound visit.
Guerrero singled to left (21-3).
Hernandez relieved Ort.
Kirk walked.
Bichette singled to right (22-3).
Hernandez singled to right (23-3).
Gurriel doubled to center (25-3).
Chapman struck out.
The Blue Jays tied a major league record by having seven players with 3+ hits. This was the 11th occurrence.

The Blue Jays tied a major league record by having four players with 4+ RBI. This was the 7th occurrence (and only the second time in the AL).

The Blue Jays had six players with 3+ runs scored. The MLB record is seven (it's happened twice).

The Blue Jays three players with 4+ runs scored. The MLB record is four (it's happened five times).

More odds and ends, from Doug Kern:

Red Sox, Most Runs Allowed 
28 - July 22, 2022 vs Blue Jays (5-28)
27 - July 7, 1923 at Cleveland (G1) (3-27)
24 - September 28, 1923 vs Yankees (4-24)
24 - May 1, 1929 vs Philadelphia Athletics (6-24)
22 - July 8, 1902 vs Philadelphia Athletics (9-22)
22 - May 31, 1970 vs White Sox (13-22)
22 - June 19, 2000 vs Yankees (1-22)
Blue Jays, Most Runs Scored
28 - July 22, 2022 at Red Sox (28-5)
24 - June 26, 1978 vs Orioles (24-10)
22 - September 12, 2021 at Orioles (22-7)
20 - June 25, 2002 at Devil Rays (20-11)
Most Runs Scored By Single Team (Live-Ball Era (Since 1920) 
30 - Texas, August 22, 2007 at Orioles (30-3)
29 - Red Sox, June 8, 1950 vs Browns (29-4)
29 - White Sox, April 23, 1955 at Kansas City Athletics (29-6)
29 - Atlanta, September 9, 2020 vs Marlins (29-9)
28 - Browns, July 6, 1929 at Philadelphia Athletics (28-6)
28 - Blue Jays, July 22, 2022 at Red Sox (28-5)
There has been only one other 28-5 game in MLB history. On August 25, 1891, the Chicago Colts beat the Brooklyn Grooms 28-5. (The Colts are now known as the Cubs; the Grooms are the Los Angeles Dodgers.)

The Blue Jays are the second team since 1900 to have all nine starters with multiple hits and multiple runs scored in the same game. The other game had Toronto on the losing side, a 24-2 loss to the Angels on August 25, 1979.

Kern tweeted that the Red Sox were the fifth team since 1900 to have four different pitchers allow 5+ runs in fewer than 3 IP. . . . I believe they are actually the 10th team.

Red Sox - Allowing 8+ Runs While Recording 2 Or Fewer Outs
Marv Grissom - June 25, 1953 vs Cleveland (0.2-6-8-1-0)
Rob Stanifer - June 19, 2000 vs Yankees   (0.2-7-9-1-0, 33)
Kaleb Ort    - July 22, 2022 vs Blue Jays (0.2-7-8-1-1, 34)
Nate Eovaldi (2.2-8-9-2-3, 63) also gave up nine runs in under three innings back on May 17. The only other pitchers to have two such games in their Red Sox careers: Luis Tiant (1974 and 1976) and Doug Bird (both in 1983).

Raimel Tapia and Danny Jansen are the first #1 and #9 batters in MLB history to each have 6 RBI for the same team in the same game. (However: For most of that time, pitchers batted #9. Two teammates each knocking in six runs has now happened 27 times.)

Inside-The-Park Grand Slams (MLB, Since 2001) 
Aaron Altherr, Phillies, September 25, 2015 at Nationals
Michael Taylor, Nationals, September 8, 2017 vs Phillies
Raimel Tapia, Blue Jays, July 22, 2022 at Red Sox
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3 comments:

  1. FenFanJuly 23, 2022 at 3:50 PM

    Yikes...

    As tough as this was to swallow, you have to have a short memory in baseball, to coin a phrase. They have more than 60 games left to play; as embarrassing as that was, it counts as one loss.

    I still believe that the Sox should be buyers at the trade deadline given that they are still in the wild card hunt at this moment. Unless they just continue to fall to pieces (Devers going to the IL hurts), stay the course and go for it!

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  2. allanJuly 23, 2022 at 4:57 PM

    When a 4-1 loss feels like a win....

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  3. johngoldfineJuly 23, 2022 at 8:16 PM

    “’Now I want you to tell me just one thing more: Why do you hate the South?’

    ‘I don’t hate it,’ Quentin said, quickly, at once, immediately. ‘I don’t hate it,’ he said. I don’t hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark: I don’t. I don’t! I don’t hate it! I don’t hate it!”

    H/t to William Faulkner...because Quentin Compson's feelings about the South have always been my feelings about the Red Sox. I don't hate the Red Sox, I don't I don't I don't.

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