BOSTON RED SOX (92-60) VS. BALTIMORE ORIOLES (80-70) Wednesday, September 18, 2013 • 7:10 p.m. ET • Fenway Park, Boston, MA RHP Jake Peavy (11-5, 4.03) vs. LHP Wei-Yin Chen (7-7, 3.99) Game #153 • Home Game #77 • TV: NESN • Radio: WEEI 93.7 FM, WUFC 1510 AM (Spanish) MAJOR LEADERS: At 92-60 (.605) the Red Sox own the FINAL HOMESTAND: The Sox tonight continue their fi nal best record in the majors. regular-season homestand of 2013 with the 2nd of 3 games RED SOX RECORD BREAKDOWN Overall ........................................... 92-60 vs. the Orioles...Boston lost last night’s series opener to the AL East Standing ....................1st, 9.0 GA BEST MLB RECORDS IN 2013 Orioles after a 3-game sweep of the Yankees to begin the TEAM W-L WPCT At Home ......................................... 50-26 homestand...The regular season home slate concludes with On Road ......................................... 42-34 Boston 92-60 .605 a 3-game set against Toronto from Friday-Sunday. Atlanta 89-62 .589 In day games .................................. 27-14 In night games ............................... 65-46 Oakland 89-62 .589 The Sox are an AL-best 50-26 (.658) at home, the 2nd- April ................................................. 18-8 Detroit 88-63 .583 best home record in MLB behind Atlanta (.703, 52- May ................................................ 15-15 St. Louis 88-63 .583 22)...The club has won 8 of its last 10, 10 of its last 13, June ............................................... 17-11 The Sox’ 92 wins top MLB, 3 more than the next- 13 of its last 18, and 16 of its last 22 home games. July ................................................. 15-10 highest totals (Atlanta and Oakland). August ........................................... 16-12 SOX AND O’S: The Red Sox and Orioles tonight continue a September ........................................ 11-4 CHANGE OF PACE: Boston’s 92 wins are the club’s most 3-game set, the 5th series between the 2 clubs in 2013, and vs. AL East ...................................... 40-28 their 3rd and fi nal set at Fenway...Boston trails the season vs. AL Central ................................. 19-15 through the 1st 152 decisions in a season since the 1950 vs. AL West ..................................... 20-12 club started 93-59...1950 also marks the last Red Sox squad set 6-8 with 5 match-ups remaining...The 2 teams close out the regular season with 3 games at Camden Yards, 9/27-29. vs. National League.......................... 13-5 to win 93 of its 1st 153 decisions in a season (93-60). vs. RH starter .................................. 60-41 The Sox have outscored the O’s 55-49 this season vs. LH starter .................................. 32-19 NIFTY 90: The Red Sox have reached the 90-win mark despite trailing the season series by 2 games...Boston Leading after 6 innings .................... 72-7 for the 5th time in 7 years beginning in 2007...It is the 9th has won 4 of its last 6 games against the Orioles after Tied after 6 innings ............................ 9-9 time in the last 12 seasons that Boston has won at least 90 dropping 6 of the teams’ 1st 8 matchups this year. Trailing after 6 innings ................... 11-44 games and 11th in 16 campaigns since 1998...Over that lon- Leading after 7 innings .................... 73-4 This year Boston is 6-8 (.429) against Baltimore and Tied after 7 innings .......................... 11-8 ger span, only the Yankees have more 90-win seasons (13). 34-20 (.630) against all other AL East teams, with a Trailing after 7 innings ..................... 7-48 winning record against the other 3 AL East clubs. Leading after 8 innings .................... 76-3 TURN IT AROUND: The Red Sox have won 23 more games Tied after 8 innings .......................... 10-7 than last year (69-93), marking the club’s largest increase SOX LATELY: The Red Sox dropped a 3-2 decision to the Trailing after 8 innings ..................... 5-49 in wins -- outside of strike-shortened seasons in 1981 and Orioles last night to snap a 3-game winning streak to open Red Sox score 1st ........................... 63-17 1994 -- since the 1st post-World War II team in 1946 (104- the homestand...The Sox are 10-3 beginning on 9/3, and all Opponents score fi rst ..................... 29-43 50) won 33 more games than 1945 (71-83). 3 losses in that time have been by 1 run. Shutouts ........................................... 8-11 Scoring less than 3 runs ................... 5-32 Outside of strike-shortened years, the Sox only other Boston has not dropped consecutive games since Scoring 3 or 4 runs ......................... 16-19 season-to-season increase larger than 22 games was losing 3 in a row from 8/14-16...Since the end of that Scoring 5 or more runs ..................... 71-9 1911-12 (27 G: 78-75 in 1911 and 105-47 in 1912). slide they are 1st in the AL with a 20-8 record (.714). Red Sox hit HR ............................... 58-28 Red Sox hit 0 HR ............................ 34-32 .500 DAYS: The Sox are an MLB-high 32 games over .500... The Sox have won 5 of their last 7, 10 of their last 13, 1-run games ................................... 21-19 Prior to last night’s game, Boston was as many as 33 games 13 of their last 17, 17 of their last 22, and 19 of their 2-run games ................................... 14-13 over .500 for the 1st time since ending 2004 at 98-64. last 26 contests...They own the AL’s 2nd-best record Walk-offs .......................................... 11-7 since the All-Star break at 34-21 (.618). Extra innings (home) .......................... 4-1 The Red Sox are the only AL team and 1 of 2 ML clubs Extra innings (road)............................ 6-4 whose record has been above .500 all year (also STOLEN MOMENTS: The Red Sox were successful in all Extra innings (total) ......................... 10-5 ATL)...This season will mark the 6th time the Red Sox 3 stolen base attempts last night and lead MLB with an Series openers ................................ 29-21 will remain above .500 all season, also accomplishing 86.2% stolen base percentage (119-for-138)...That would Series fi nales .................................. 29-20 the feat in 1912, 1917, 1918, 1940, and 1946. Series W-L-T (home) ......................17-7-1 be the best mark by an AL team since caught stealing has Series W-L-T (road) ........................ 15-8-1 been tracked in the AL (1914-15, 1920+). Series W-L-T (total) ......................32-15-2 IT’S MAGIC: Boston’s magic number for a postseason Series sweeps (home) ........................ 7-1 berth is 2...The Sox would clinch a spot in the postseason Boston has been successful in their last 35 stolen base attempts beginning 8/9, the longest streak in club Series sweeps (road) .......................... 2-1 tonight if they defeat Baltimore Cleveland loses to KC... Series sweeps (total) .......................... 9-2 Boston’s magic number to clinch the AL East is 3. history and the longest for any MLB club since the Blue Jays had 38 straight from 9/4-26/1993. Come-from-behind wins ......35, last 9/15 Boston has been to the postseason 20 times in Innings batting around........23, last 9/7 (4th) franchise history, last in 2009...That year ended Boston has 119 SB, 7 shy of the team single-season Games decided in last AB............... 22-12 mark in the live ball era (since 1920) set in 2009 (126). a stretch of 6 postseason appearances in 7 years VS. THE ORIOLES beginning in 2003 (all but 2006). GRAND STAND: The Red Sox 8 grand slams this season All-Time vs. O’s (since 1954) .... 525-446 The Red Sox last won the division title in 2007, which top MLB...The Sox have hit 4 slams in September, matching In Boston .................................. 267-216 was the club’s 1st AL East Championship since 1995. In Baltimore ............................. 258-230 the club’s most ever in any month (also August 1950, June At Camden Yards ........................ 102-69 1987, May 1999, and August 2001)...Only the 1983 Orioles IN THE STANDINGS: The Sox are in 1st place in the AL (5) have ever had more slams in the month of September. 2013 vs. Orioles ............................... 6-8 East, 9.0 games ahead of the Rays...It is the largest divi- In Boston .......................................... 3-4 sion lead for any AL club and the 2nd-largest current lead KOJI STREAKS SNAPPED: Last night Koji Uehara suffered In Baltimore ..................................... 3-4 in MLB (Dodgers, 10.5 games up in NL West)...Boston was his 1st loss of the season after allowing a 9th-inning run...A DATE H/R SCORE WP LP a season-high-tying 9.5 games up after a win on Sunday. leadoff triple by Danny Valencia ended a club-record streak 4/8 H W3-1 Buchholz Chen Prior to this season, 2007 is the only other year in the of 37 consecutive batters retired (prev., 32 by Ellis Kinder in 4/9 H L8-5 O’Day Hanrahan past 18 seasons beginning in 1996 that the Red Sox 1952)...According to SABR, it was the 2nd-longest streak by 4/10 H L2-3 Matusz Mortensen a reliever in MLB history (Bobby Jenks, 41 in 2007), and 8 6/13 R L4-5 (13) McFarland Wilson have held a division lead as large...They reached as 6/14 R L0-2 Tillman Dempster high as 11.5 games ahead that year. batters shy of the MLB record (Mark Buehrle, 45 in 2009). 6/15 R W5-4 Lackey Garcia The Sox retook the division lead on 8/25 and have The run snapped his scoreless streak at 30.1 innings, 6/16 R L3-6 Gonzalez Lester held the top spot 45 of the last 48 days starting 7/31..