Young’s RBI Single Lifts Red Sox Over Cardinals 5-4 in 13 Innings

Thursday, May 18, 2017
GoLocalWorcester Sports Team

Chris Young's RBI single wins game for Red Sox
Chris Young hit an RBI single to centerfield in the top of the 13th inning to give the Red Sox a 5-4 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday night in St. Louis. 

In the bottom of the 13th Ben Taylor came on and got the Cardinals in order for his first major league save. He was the 8th pitcher used by the Red Sox in the game. 

Boston sweeps the two-game series with the Cardinals and improve to 21-18 on the season. 

Red Sox Come Back

The Red Sox trailed 4-0 in the seventh inning against Cardinals' pitcher Mike Leake, who had only given up five hits to that point. 

Jackie Bradley jr. got the Red Sox on the board with a two-run home run, scoring Mitch Moreland to cut the Cardinals' lead to 4-2. The home run was Bradley's second in two games and fourth of the season. 

Boston would tie the game at four in the 8th when Dustin Pedroia drew and walk and Xander Bogaerts followed up with an RBI triple to pull the Red Sox within one. 

Bogaerts would score on a sacrifice fly by Andrew Benintendi to tie the game at 4. 

The teams would combine for a total of two hits until Young's heroics the 13th inning won the game for Boston. 

Next up 

The Red Sox return to action on Thursday, May 18 when they visit the Oakland A’s. First pitch is set for 10:05 p.m. 

The pitching matchup is Boston’s Hector Velázquez against Oakland’s Sonny Gray. 

  • 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.

     

  • 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.

     

  • 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).

     

  • 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.

     

  • 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.

     

  • 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.

     

  • 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.

     
Delivered Free Every
Day to Your Inbox

Sign Up for the Daily Eblast

I want to follow on Twitter

I want to Like on Facebook

X