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03/27/2008 11:16 AM ET
Sweet 16 facts about Red Sox
From The Kid to Yaz, the number holds significant value
By Marty Noble / MLB.com
The final days of Spring Training often overwhelm Major League players. Most
of them, pitchers excluded, want the regular season to begin now. The NCAA
basketball tournament provides a wanted respite from the tedium. The
tournament will be on several clubhouse televisions this weekend, and many
eyes will be focused on it.
In accordance with the Sweet 16 weekend, MLB.com presents a Red Sox Sweet 16,
including a few entries that are bittersweet.
1. Other than American League MVP Carl Yastrzemski, no player put more
"possible" into the Impossible Dream of 1967 than Jim Lonborg, No. 16. With
acknowledgement to Ellis Kinder, who won more games than Lonborg for the Red
Sox, MLB.com recognizes Lonborg as the foremost No. 16 in the history of the
franchise because of his Cy Young exploits -- 22-9 record and league-leading
246 strikeouts -- in that implausibly grand run to the World Series.
2. Kinder wore No. 16 with the Sox for eight seasons, winning 86 games and,
in 1949, producing a signature season comparable to Lonborg's '67. He won 23
games that year at age 35. A 24th victory at Yankee Stadium on Oct. 2, the
last day of the 1949 regular season, would have put the Sox in the World
Series. Kinder allowed two hits and a run in seven innings. The Yankees won,
5-3. (If Oct. 2 seems familiar, understand that the Bucky Dent Game happened
on that date 29 years later.) Kinder died on Oct. 16, 1968 -- 25 years to the
day before Aaron Boone's home run.
3. The big league record for successive plate appearances reaching base is
16, established by Ted Williams in September 1957 -- two singles, four home
runs, nine walks and one hit by pitch.
4. The Red Sox have won 16 AL batting championships, more than any other
team, since Williams won his sixth and final title in 1958.
5. Only 16 pitchers in club history have won more games for the Sox than Babe
Ruth (89), not a particularly high number of pitchers given the age of the
franchise.
6. Pedro Martinez (10) and Roger Clemens (six) are responsible for 16 of the
17 instances in which a Red Sox pitcher has struck out at least 15 batters in
a game. Bill Monbouquette was responsible for the first one, May 12, 1961.
7. Merle "Doc" Adkins, Lefty O'Doul and Howard Ehmke each faced 16 batters in
an inning for the Boston franchise, Adkins with the Boston Americans in 1902
and O'Doul and Ehmke with the '23 Sox. In each instance, the inning was the
sixth.
8. A Red Sox player has hit a home run in the All-Star Game 16 times.
Williams hit four. Among Sox players, David Ortiz has hit the most recent
All-Star home run -- July 13, 2004, in Houston.
9. Yaz averaged just less than 16 home runs per season, 15.83, in his first
six years in the big leagues and hit 16 in 1966 before hitting 44 in '67, his
Triple Crown year.
10. Williams hit at least 20 home runs in 16 seasons, equaling the AL record
established by Ruth and later matched by Reggie Jackson.
11. Fred Lynn had 16 total bases in one game, a club record, at Tiger Stadium
on June 18, 1975. He hit three home runs, a triple, a single and drove in 10
runs.
12. Dick Radatz had 16 victories in relief, a club record, in 1964.
13. Beginning with the 1977 season and through 2000, the Sox never played an
opponent more than 15 times in a season -- except in 1978. The only instance
during that 24-season sequence came on Oct. 2 that year. The Bucky Dent Game
was the 163rd game for the Sox and the Yankees and the 16th against each
other.
14. The Sox have scored 20 or more runs in a game 16 times in their history,
most recently on June 27, 2003, when the defeated the Rays, 25-8, at Fenway
Park, scoring 16 runs in the first two innings.
15. The 1907 Boston Americans were winless in 18 consecutive games from Sept.
12-Oct. 2 (there's that date again). Sixteen of the games were losses; two
were ties. The National League Boston franchise, the Doves, had a 16-game
losing streak that year, too. The Sox never have won 16 straight games. They
had a 15-game wining streak in 1946.
16. The Sox haven't played a 16-inning game since April Fool's Day 2003. They
defeated the Rays, 9-8, at Tropicana Field that night in the second game of
the season. Kevin Millar hit a home run against Jorge Sosa with one out in
the 16th. The game was the first of -- what else? -- 16 extra-inning games
the Sox played in 2003.
Marty Noble is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the
approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
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「寫下這些日記的人，在重新踏上阿根廷的土地時，就已經死去。我，已經不再是我。」
---Che Guevara---
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