tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post7121133843439357709..comments2024-03-29T04:32:39.897-07:00Comments on the joy of sox: G49: Mariners 5, Red Sox 0allanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04673233312198832937noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-51202107325972652032017-05-28T13:00:13.162-07:002017-05-28T13:00:13.162-07:00ELIAS:
There were 16 major-league games played on...ELIAS:<br /><br />There were 16 major-league games played on Saturday (including one doubleheader), and here were the final scores of those games: 3-2, 3-1, 5-3, 3-0, 6-0, 4-3, 3-0, 6-1, 5-2, 5-2, 4-3, 5-0, 5-2, 5-4, 3-0 and 6-3. That's right. No team scored more than six runs in any of Saturday's 16 games. That marked the first time in major-league history, dating to 1876, that no team had scored more than six runs on a day on which at least 16 games were played. (If you're wondering, Saturday, May 27, 2017 was the 703rd day in major-league history on which at least 16 games were played.)<br /><br />Also, Friday, May 26 marked the first day in major-league history on which at least 15 games were played and there were no sacrifice bunts. (There had been 2,900 days on which at least 15 games were played through Friday, May 26.)<br /><br />Brandon McCarthy and Ross Stripling combined to limit the Cubs to three hits, all singles, as the Dodgers took Saturday's contest, 5-0. On Friday night, Alex Wood and two relievers had limited the Cubs to two hits, both singles, in a 4-0 Dodgers victory. You have to go back 100 years — OK, six days shy of 100 years — to find the last team that shut out the defending World Series champions on three-or-fewer hits in each of two consecutive games. That team was [Cleveland], who blanked the Red Sox at Fenway Park, 3-0 on one hit and 5-0 on three hits, on June 1-2, 1917. Guy Morton and Jim Bagby were the Cleveland pitchers, but more interesting is that Boston's lone hit in the June 1 game was supplied in the eighth inning by that day's losing pitcher, a young lefty named Babe Ruth.<br /><br />Brian Johnson tossed a five-hit shutout, striking out eight and walking none, as the Red Sox made it six straight wins by blanking the run-starved Mariners, 6-0. It was the first shutout by a Red Sox rookie since Clay Buchholz no-hit the Orioles, 10-0, on Sept. 1, 2007. The last Boston rookie to toss a complete game in which he allowed neither a run nor a walk was Jim Wright, who did that against Kansas City on July 29, 1978. But here's the piece de resistance: Johnson became the first rookie in Red Sox history to toss a shutout in which he allowed no walks and no more than five hits with at least eight strikeouts.<br /><br />The Red Sox became the first major-league team this season to win six straight games with the starting pitcher credited as the victor in each game.allanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673233312198832937noreply@blogger.com