Toronto Blue Jays: The many records that fell during the Boston beatdown
By Kevin Henry
There is plenty to unpack from the 28-5 victory posted on Friday night by the Toronto Blue Jays over the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park. There was also plenty of history made in the midst of the drubbing.
Just how much MLB history was made on Friday night when the Toronto Blue Jays smashed the Boston Red Sox?
Let’s start with some of the more obvious historical notes. The 28 runs posted by the Toronto Blue Jays were the most runs ever in a single game, surpassing the old record of 24 that took place during the 1978 season. Of those 28 runs, 25 came in the first five innings of the game. The last team to score that many in the first five innings of the game was the 1922 Chicago Cubs.
That’s not a typo. An offensive outburst like was witnessed at Fenway Park on Friday night had not been seen by baseball fans in a century.
Toronto became just the sixth team in MLB history to score 28 runs or more in a game, and they did it with a franchise-record 29 hits. As the Blue Jays pointed out on Twitter, all nine Toronto starters had at least two hits and scored two runs on Friday night, making Toronto just the second baseball team since 1900 to accomplish that feat.
Dig deeper into the box score and you’ll find that a series of events that happened in Boston on Friday was perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime confluence of offensive feats.
Until last night, these 4 had never all occurred in the same season, let alone by one team in the same game 🤯
— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) July 23, 2022
🔹 Score 28 runs on the road
🔹 Hit an inside-the-park grand slam
🔹 Team hits for the home run cycle
🔹 Player with 6+ hits in a 9-inning game
H/T @StatsBySTATS pic.twitter.com/2GJUF2YTrD
By the way, it was Raimel Tapia was the inside-the-park grand slam and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. with the six hits, one of six Toronto players to have three or more hits on the night.
Tapia finished with six RBI, the same amount as catcher Danny Jansen. They became the first players in franchise history to have six RBI in a single game.
On the other side of the diamond, the 28 runs given up by the Red Sox were the most allowed in franchise history. The previous record was established on July 7, 1923, in a 27-3 demolition in Cleveland, the last time the Red Sox were beaten by 23 or more runs as well.
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Soak in what happened in Boston on Friday night, baseball fans. It could well have been a game for the records books and the ages.