August 14, 2015

G115: Red Sox 15, Mariners 1

Mariners - 100 000 000 -  1  7  1
Red Sox  - 306 022 11x - 15 21  0
It was a total team effort, as the Red Sox totaled six doubles, two triples, and three home runs in a rout of the Mariners.

Travis Shaw: 3-for-5, 2 home runs, two runs scored, three RBI

David Ortiz: 2-for-4, double, walk, 3 runs scored, RBI

Pablo Sandoval: 3-for-5, 2 doubles, 2 runs scored, 3 RBI

Brock Holt: 2-for-6, double, triple, 3 RBI

Rusney Castillo: 2-for-3, home run, 2 runs scored, 2 RBI

Jackie Bradley: 3-for-5, double, run scored, RBI

Ryan Hanigan: 2-for-5, 2 runs scored

Mookie Betts: 2-for-6, triple, run, RBI

Joe Kelly: 6-4-1-2-6, 106.
Example
Mike Montgomery / Joe Kelly
Betts, CF
Holt, 2B
Bogaerts, SS
Ortiz, DH
Castillo, RF
Sandoval, 3B
Shaw, 1B
Hanigan, C
Bradley, LF
Rob Bradford, WEEI: Who Is Going To Play First For Red Sox?

Matt Collins, OTM: Is Pablo Sandoval Really This Bad?

Also: The first-place Blue Jays (winners of 11 straight and 14 of 15) host the MFY (Price/Nova). Toronto is the first team to have two winning streaks of at least 11 games - June 2-14, August 2-13 - since Cleveland in 1954.

Bill Lankhof, Toronto Sun:
Hal Steinbrenner, the New York Yankees' managing general partner, told reporters this week that the American League East Division title is "still ours to lose."

So far, they're done a bang-up job of doing precisely that.

This was a team with a seven-game lead July 28. They have squandered all of it and now are looking up at a surging Blue Jays team which has passed them for the division lead.

2 comments:

allan said...

Mike Trout could be the first batter in AL history to led the league in runs scored four years in a row. He's 5 away from the league leader now.

Non-Trout AL batters who have led the league in RS three years in a row:
Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle.

allan said...

MFY: 000 000 400 - 4
TOR: 003 000 000 - 3

Beltran clubbed a pinch-hit three-run dong to give the Yankees the lead. Andrew Miller wiggled out of a 2nd/3rd, 1 out jam in the bottom of the ninth, ending the game with a 12-pitch strikeout of Troy Tulowitzki. MFY back on top by 0.5.