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Red Socked
2005-07-15 22:24
by Mike Carminati

In 104 years the Red Sox never scored more than 16 runs against the Yanks. In 2005, the scored 17 runs against the Yanks….twice.

Tonight the Sox beat the Yankees 17-1 with former Yankee David Wells beating soon-to-be former Yankee Tim Redding. Redding in his New York debut does something never done before this season, start a game in which the Yanks relinquished 17 runs to the Red Sox. It featured an inside-the-park home run by Trot Nixon, his first, when center fielder Melky Cabrera, celebrating his first week as a Yankee, fell down allowing the ball to go to the wall.

The odd thing is that the Sox beat the Yanks by the same score on May 28 in the Bronx, no less. In that game the Sox had 27 hits as opposed to the 15 they had tonight.

Here are the most runs ever scored by the Sox in their head-to-head competitions:

YrMoDayBOSNYYR-BosR-NYY
2005528BOS@NYY171
2005715@BOSNYY171
1937812@BOSNYY1610
1912620BOS@NYY158
1912926@BOSNYY1512
1933831BOS@NYY152
197346@BOSNYY155
199091@BOSNYY151
1903729@BOSNYY1415
1909623@BOSNYY145
191155BOS@NYY146
192492BOS@NYY146
193696@BOSNYY145
1953525BOS@NYY1410
195979@BOSNYY143
1962515@BOSNYY144
1963814@BOSNYY147
1974521@BOSNYY146
1985410@BOSNYY145
1989610BOS@NYY148

Keep in mind that even though these two games were Boston's first with 17 runs against the Yankees. New York has pasted the Sox by that much on a number of occasions:

YrMoDayBOSNYYR-BosR-NYY
1923928@BOSNYY424
2000619@BOSNYY122
1940813BOS@NYY819
1952510BOS@NYY318
1939530@BOSNYY917
195477BOS@NYY917
1957527@BOSNYY817
1947525BOS@NYY217

Finally, here are the most lopsided games in their head-to-head history. The two 17-1 games this year are tied for third:

YrMoDayBOSNYYR-BosR-NYYDiff
2000619@BOSNYY12221
1923928@BOSNYY42420
2005528BOS@NYY17116
2005715@BOSNYY17116
1952510BOS@NYY31815
1947525BOS@NYY21715
193775BOS@NYY01515
196572@BOSNYY21614
1920626BOS@NYY01414
199091@BOSNYY15114
1933831BOS@NYY15213
1941530@BOSNYY13013
193466@BOSNYY31512
197897@BOSNYY31512
1927417BOS@NYY21412
192796@BOSNYY21412
1902917@BOSBLA13112

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