Sale Records 12 Strikeouts, Red Sox Beat Rays 6-3
Sunday, May 14, 2017
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| Chris Sale strikes out 12 en route to a 6-3 Red Sox win |
Chris Sale recorded double digit strikeouts for the seventh straight game, fanning 12 Tampa Bay batters as the
Red Sox would beat the Rays 6-3 on Saturday afternoon at Fenway Park.
Sale went seven innings and gave up three runs and two hit, both home runs, to grab his fourth win of the season.
With the win, the Red Sox improve to 19-17 on the season.
5th Inning Rally Gives Red Sox Win
Trailing 3-2 in the bottom of the fifth, the Red Sox offense erupted for four runs in the inning.
Boston’s Devin Marrero hit a two-run double off the Green Monster against Tampa Bay’s Blake Snell to start off the scoring and give the Red Sox a 4-3 lead.
Mookie Betts then followed with an RBI double, and Xander Bogaerts would cap off the scoring with a a run-scoring ground ball to put Boston up 6-3.
Betts had a two run home run earlier in the game.
Craig Kimbrel would come on and pick up his 11th save of the season.
Series Continues
The Red Sox and Rays close their series on Sunday, May 14 with first pitch set for 1:35 p.m
The pitching matchup is Boston’s Drew Pomeranz against Tampa’s Matt Andries.
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Casey At The Bat
Casey at the Bat was written on August 14, 1863 on Chatham Street in Worcester by Ernest Thayer under the penname “Phineas.” The 150th anniversary of the poem is being celebrated in 2013.
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First Perfect Game
The first perfect game in the history of Major League Baseball was pitched in Worcester, on June 12, 1880, by J. Lee Richmond for the Worcester Worcesters – also known at various times as the Brown Stockings and the Ruby Legs - versus the Cleveland Blues at the Worcester Driving Park Grounds, located in the Worcester Agricultural Fairgrounds near Elm Park. Worcester joined the National League in 1880, replacing the failed Syracuse Stars.
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Industrial League
In Greater Worcester, there was a deep history of participation in Industrial League Baseball. Locally, teams included Norton Co., Town Talk Baking Co. and Whitin Machine Works (shown here).
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Honorary NL Membership
Worcester’s National League team was suspended in 1882 and replaced by the Philadelphia Quakers, who later became the Philadelphia Phillies. Worcester maintains an honorary lifetime NL membership.
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NE Collegiate Baseball
A New England Collegiate Baseball League team played in Leominster from 1995 to 1999. Called the Central Mass. Collegians, they won the NECBL Championship in both 1995 and 1996, and During the 1995 season, they played a game against the Cuban National Youth Team in Worcester.
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Worcester Tornadoes
The now-defunct Worcester Tornadoes of the Can-Am League played for eight seasons, from 2005 through 2012. Former Tornadoes emcee Dave Peterson is general manager of Worcester’s new team in the Futures Collegiate Baseball League.
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Wachusett Dirt Dawgs
The Wachusett Dirt Dawgs, who play at historic, and newly renovated, Doyle Field in Leominster, are a 2012 expansion franchise in the now-three-year-old Futures Collegiate Baseball League.The Dirt Dawgs’ 2013 season swung into action on June 5 with big expectations, but ended on August 8 with those hopes being dashed. They finished in the basement, with a record of 20-31 - 14 games behind first-place the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks (38-18). The team is owned by prominent Leominster businessman John Morrison, who also founded, owns and operates Fosta-Tek Optics in Leominster.
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Worcester Baseball
Last month, the Futures Collegiate Baseball League announced the formation of the Worcester Baseball franchise, which will play its first season next summer. The team is owned by the family that owns and operates Creedon and Co. The prominent Worcester catering service will be the food-and-beverage vendor at home games at Fitton Field, at the College of the Holy Cross. Through Octobert 25, Worcester Baseball is conducting a name-the-team competition.
