August 27, 2007

Road Runners

The Red Sox's romp through Chicago's pitching staff (11-3, 10-1, 14-2, 11-1) was the first time in major league history that a road team has swept a four-game series with 10 or more runs scored in each game.

Also, it has been 85 years since an American League team had scored 10+ in each game of a four-game series (the other three times: St. Louis Browns 1920, St. Louis Browns 1922, Colorado Rockies 1996).

Here are the previous times the Red Sox have scored in double figures for four consecutive games (with a little bonus from 1950).
June 14, 1901: Red Sox 16, Tigers 7
June 15, 1901: Red Sox 12, Tigers 4
June 17, 1901: Red Sox 11, Tigers 1
June 17, 1901: Red Sox 10, Tigers 1

June 20, 1912: Red Sox 15, Yankees 8
June 21, 1912: Red Sox 11, Yankees 3
June 22, 1912: Red Sox 13, Yankees 2
June 22, 1912: Red Sox 10, Yankees 3

June 2, 1950: Red Sox 11, Cleveland 5
June 3, 1950: Red Sox 11, Cleveland 9
June 4, 1950: Red Sox 17, White Sox 7
June 5, 1950: Red Sox 12, White Sox 0
June 6, 1950: White Sox 8, Red Sox 4
June 7, 1950: Red Sox 20, Browns 4
June 8, 1950: Red Sox 29, Browns 4
P.S. The Red Sox-Yankees 1912 series was five games; Boston won the opener 5-2. After sweeping that five-game series in New York, the Red Sox split four games with Washington before winning five of six games from the Yankees at Fenway: June 28 to July 2, 1912.

In 14 days, Boston went 10-1 against the Yankees, outscoring them 95-42!

7 comments:

Michael Leggett said...

Friday Night, via my RAZR, I'll be Live Blogging from Fenway Park, in The 1st Game Of The Orioles Series.

laura k said...

...and we'll all be here on our game thread, via our COMPUTERS.

allan said...

Friday Morning, via my RAZOR, I'll be Live Shaving from My Bathroom Sink, before The 1st Day Of My Workweek.

Spencer Brown said...

No keyboard? Your thumbs will get tired.

9casey said...

I'm not much for wild game , but I know Tigers like MOOSE

s1c said...

7-0 tigers love the moose!!!

laura k said...

I'm not much for wild game , but I know Tigers like MOOSE

Ha!

Hope you guys found the chat in the other thread.