The facts from Toronto’s historic beating of Boston

On Friday night there was a historic event in the Major League Baseball (MLB), with the beating that the Toronto Blue Jays they hit one of the most mythical franchises of the Big Top, the Boston Red Soxwith a scoreboard of 28-5.

To make the loss more painful for the Red Sox, it was in the majestic Fenway Parkhome of the Boston team, which in this way saw his team receive the most runs in club history.

The Blue Jays managed to score 19 of 28 runs, in situations where batters were on the board with 2 outs, the most two-out runs scored by a team since the Red Sox ‘ scored 22 such runs on August 21, 1986, according to ESPN.

According to data from ESPN Stats & Info, all Blue Jays starters had at least 2 hits, and scored 2 runs, being the second team since the modern era (1900) to achieve it, since the Angels did it in 1979 .

Three players from the Canadian franchise produced 5 runs, Raimel Tapia, Lourdes Gurriel Jr, and Danny Jansen, the first time this has happened in the club’s history.

Aztec performance

Regarding the production of the Mexican receiver of the Toronto team, Alejandro Kirkwho is having the best season of his life, and has just participated in his first All-Star Game, also contributed to the lofty victory of the Blue Jays, hitting 3 hits, scoring 2 runs, receiving a base on balls in 6 at-bats bat, leaving his batting average at .319, the highest on his team.

Continuing with this endowment of historical data, the Blue Jays left fielder, Lourdes Gurriel Jr, made history by hitting 6 hits in 7 at-bats, producing 5 runs, and scoring 3 more, tying Frank Catalanotto (2004) with the most of ‘hits’ in a game for Toronto.

As if that were not enough, in this crazy meeting, Raimel Tapia hit the third ‘grand slam’ so far in the millennium, when the last one achieved by Michael A. Taylor was in 2017, and the other was Aaron Altherr in 2015 according to ESPN Stats & Info.

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As for the Boston Red Sox, Christian Vázquez brought out the caste for those led by Alex Cora, hitting a couple of home runs and thus producing 2 runs, which according to ESPN Stats & Info, joins Jim Thome in 2002 as the only players in the Modern Era (since 1900) to have multiple home runs in a game in which his team lost by more than 20 runs.

I currently work as a web writer, specialized in NBA and NFL for Empresa EL DEBATE. I worked for 4 years and 5 months in the Sports section of the Printed Newspaper in Culiacán, covering various disciplines, being assigned to the source of Caballeros de Culiacán of CIBACOPA. I had the opportunity to cover the Barrios Basketball Tournament of EL DEBATE for 3 years, one in Mazatlán, 2 in Culiacán, as well as the National War Bands in Los Mochis. In the same way, I was present at various openings and closings of sporting events of the Company. My passion is basketball, so I am constantly researching burst sports, especially the NBA, and have created special works on relevant topics. I covered the Culiacán International Marathon twice, one of the most important events at the local and state level. I am an avid reader, who likes to constantly improve myself, both personally and professionally. I successfully attended the Digital Sports Journalism Workshop at the University of Guadalajara sponsored by EL DEBATE.

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