A historic day was lived this Friday at Fenway Park in Boston.
The Toronto Blue Jays crushed the Boston Red Sox 28-5, a result unheard of in modern baseball.
In this way, the Blue Jays set a new record for their franchise for the most runs in a game and incidentally inflicted the biggest loss in history on Boston, the last with a high number of runs being 99 years ago, when they lost 27 -3 against Cleveland.
The Blue Jays shredded Boston’s pitching with 29 hits, including five home runs.
Cuban Lourdes Gurriel went 6-for-7, with three runs scored and five RBIs.
Sanadresano Jeter Downs, from Boston, went blank in four at-bats.
The Colombian baseball player will surely never forget this game with his emblematic currency.
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On a night of enormous offensive power from Toronto, the most outstanding play was a ‘grand slam’ inside the park that Dominican Raimel Tapia achieved thanks to an error by Jarren Duran, who lost sight of the ball during his flight.
The Blue Jays racked up five home runs in the game: the aforementioned by Raimel Tapia, one by Teoscar Hernandez, one by Matt Chapman and two by Danny Jansen.
Also, Cuban Lourdes Gurriel Jr., with six hits in the game, tied the record for hits by a Blue Jays player in a game.
Tapia and Jansen each drove in six runs and Gurriel Jr. drove in five runs.
The Toronto team wasted no time and already in the third episode they won 0-10.
The worst moment for the Red Sox came, however, in the top of the fifth inning, when the Blue Jays added an astonishing 11 runs.
Nathan Eovaldi (4-3) had a night to forget, taking the loss for the Red Sox, giving up nine runs, three strikeouts and two walks in 2 2/3 innings of work.
Puerto Rican Christian Vázquez responded in the locals’ offense, scoring two home runs.
