video: Sale Reaches 300 Strikeouts, Red Sox Cruise Past Orioles 9-0
Thursday, September 21, 2017
No. 3️⃣0️⃣0️⃣!
— MLB (@MLB) September 21, 2017
Chris Sale records AL’s first 300-K campaign since 1999, @MLB’s sixth since 2000. pic.twitter.com/jvnuD3uMDJ
Sale becomes the first American League pitcher to reach the milestone since Pedro Martinez did it in 1999. He finished that season with 313 strikeouts.
In the game, Sale struck out 13 batters while giving up four hits and no walks to match his career high with 17 wins.
With the win, the Red Sox improve to 88-64 on the season. They maintain a three-game lead over the Yankees for first place in the AL East.
Red Sox Cruise Past Orioles
With the game scoreless in the fourth inning, Mookie Betts and Devin Marrero hit two-run home runs to give the Red Sox a 4-0 lead.
Hanley Ramirez hit a two-run double in the fifth inning to increase Boston’s lead to 6-0.
Dustin Pedroia hit a two-run double in the 8th and Boston would add another run in the 9th to cruise to the 9-0 win.
The Red Sox have won 11 of their last 14 games.
Next up
The Red Sox are off on Thursday, September 21 before returning to action Friday, September 22 against the Cincinnati Reds.
First pitch is set for 7 p.m.
Chris Sale has now struck out 191 batters on the road this year, the most by any #MLB pitcher in at least 104 years.
— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) September 21, 2017
Chris Sale has joined Pedro Martinez as the only Red Sox pitchers ever with 300+ strikeouts in a season. Martinez struck out 313 in 1999.
— Red Sox Notes (@SoxNotes) September 21, 2017
Related Slideshow: The History of Baseball in Central Massachusetts
Baseball and Central Mass. go way back - to the 1860s. The local historical landmarks range from Mudville to Hotel Vernon to Fitton Field. A version of these highlights is posted on the site of the new, yet-to-be-formally-named Worcester Baseballteam of the three-year-old Futures Collegiate Baseball League.
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