October 10, 1999
It
was on this date in 1999 that the Boston Red Sox set a Major League Baseball
post-season record for runs scored in a single game when they defeated the
Cleveland Indians by a score of 23-7 in Game 4 of the American League Division
Series at Fenway Park in Boston. The sixteen run margin of victory was also a
playoff record.
The Red Sox scored in seven of
the eight innings they batted, but never scored more than five in one inning. First
baseman Mike Stanley led the hit parade for Boston with five, followed by Jason
Varitek and John Valentin with four (Valentin had seven RBIs in the game).
The victory tied the series at
two and the Red Sox won the fifth and final game in Cleveland’s Jacobs Field
the following day by a score of 12-8. In the five game series, the Red Sox
scored 47 runs while the Indians tallied 32.
The Red Sox would lose in the
ALCS to the New York Yankees, four games to one.
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