Top Play (WPA): With the Red Sox trailing 7-5 in the seventh, Ryan Hanigan came to the plate with one out and the bases loaded. Hanigan squibbed Nationals reliever Blake Treinen’s pitch right back to him for what should have been an inning-ending 1-2-3 double play. Instead, a comedy of errors ensued. Treinen bobbled the grounder […]
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Turning Twosday: Two Pitches That Gave Us 19 Innings
On Friday night, the Red Sox played the longest game in their history: a, nearly 7-hour, 19-inning, 6-5 victory over the Yankees. In a game in which so many details ultimately blend together or stick out — Mike Napoli went 0-8! — there were two otherwise innocuous pitches out of 627, both on 2-0, that […]