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THE BEST RED SOX TEAM EVAH! ...
The Sox reach multiple
individual season marks
September 26, 2018
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Xander
Bogaerts was proud to reach 100 RBI for the season,
and even more pleased that he did it batting behind J.D.
Martinez, driving in four runs to lead the Red Sox
past the Baltimore
Orioles 19-3 in the opener of a day-night
doubleheader. Martinez had three of Boston's
season-high 22 hits, including a three run homer that brought his major
league-leading RBI total to 127, to help send the Orioles to a franchise-record
112th loss. The 1939 St. Louis Browns went 43-111.
Baltimore dropped 61 1/2 games behind Boston (107-51),
which extended the franchise record in wins it set on Monday night when it
clinched the best record in baseball and home-field advantage through the World
Series.
In their first game with nothing to play for, the Red Sox
had five homers and nine doubles and matched their biggest runs total of the
season. The 14 extra-base hits were the most in the majors this year and the
most for Boston since 1950.
Renato Nunez and Trey
Mancini homered in the third inning to cut Baltimore's deficit
to 5-3.
David Price (16-7)
settled down after the early stumble. He allowed three runs, all in the second
inning, six hits and three walks, striking out six before leaving with a 10-3
lead after five.
Rafael Devers had
four hits and six RBI, including two homers, and Mookie
Betts had two hits to raise his major league-best batting
average to .346. Betts also stole a base, making him the second player in Red
Sox history with at least 30 homers and 30 stolen bases in a season.
Bogaerts and Blake
Swihart also homered for Boston. Andrew
Benintendi had three hits, including one of nine doubles in
the game, his 40th on the year. Bogaerts' 22 homers also is a personal best.
Martinez's 42d homer tied Dick Stuart (1963) for the most by a player in his
first year with the Red Sox. Devers had six RBI, a new career high.
Infielder Jace
Peterson pitched the eighth for the Orioles, throwing mostly
in the 90 mph range. He gave up four runs and six hits, but he could have gotten
out of it with less damage if he had remembered to cover first base on a
grounder to the right side. Two other hits barely eluded the fielders, including
one that went off second baseman Corban
Joseph's glove. Peterson struck out Christian
Vazquez to end the inning.
In the second game, Chris Sale struck out eight over 4 2/3
innings before the Baltimore
Orioles salvaged a split of the day-night doubleheader
with a 10-3 victory over the Red
Sox.
Sale left after giving up Adam
Jones' go-ahead, RBI double that made it 3-2 in the
fifth. He threw 92 pitches, allowing three runs and four hits. He had control
trouble early, hitting two batters on sliders in the first inning as he allowed
two runs.
Trey Mancini had a tiebreaking
two-run single off Matt
Barnes (6-4) in a three-run seventh and drove in three
runs. Tanner
Scott (3-2) worked 2 2/3 innings of one-run relief,
and Paul
Fry pitched three hitless innings for his second save.
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