Christian Webb was recently promoted to Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Congratulations to Dr. Webb!

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I do not like Matt Barnes. His first few bad games have been burned into my brain and I am certain that no matter how many good things he does for the Red Sox in the future, I will always not like him.

Tonight, I really do not fucking like him.

After the Red Sox clawed back to tie the game in the top of the ninth, with pinch-hitter Chris Young driving in two runs, Barnes gave up a one-out walkoff blast to Joe Mauer in the home half. The Twins have had 26 walk-off home runs since 2004 (Mauer’s first season), but this was the first walkoff dong for him in those 14 seasons.

Eduardo Rodriguez (6-7-3-1-6, 106) overcame a rocky first inning in which he hit a batter and then gave up a triple and a single.

Andrew Benintendi homered in the third. Boston loaded the bases against Phil Hughes in the sixth – actually, the Twins walked Mitch Moreland intentionally to load them up for Josh Rutledge – but Rutledge flied out to center.

In the ninth, Moreland singled and Deven Marrero ran for him. Rutledge was safe on an infield single. Jackie Bradley (now batting .175) grounded out, but moved the runners to second and third. Young batted for Christian Vazquez and came through with a hit to left.

Barnes wiped all that away. After Kennys Vargas grounded to first, Mauer took Barnes deep on a 1-2 pitch.

The Second Inning:

Young and restless

Tepesch pitching. Hanley Ramirez grounded out to third. Mitch Moreland flied out to center. Chris Young homered to left-center. (1-0) Sandy Leon singled to center. Josh Rutledge grounded into a fielder’s choice to catcher, Leon safe at second on error by shortstop. Mookie Betts walked, Leon to third, Rutledge to second. Dustin Pedroia doubled to left center, Leon, Rutledge, and Betts scored. (4-0) Xander Bogaerts singled to right, Pedroia to third. Andrew Benintendi doubled to left, Pedroia and Bogaerts scored, Benintendi to third on throw. (6-0) Rucinski relieved Tepesch. Ramirez singled to right, Benintendi scored. (7-0) Moreland doubled to left, Ramirez scored. (8-0) Young struck out swinging.

Two outs, bases empty. … Then the Red Sox go to work, and score eight runs!

And Rick Porcello (7-7-1-0-6, 109), blessed with that bushel of runs, came out for the third inning and struck out the first two Twins. After surrendering two singles, he struck out Eddie Rosario for the third out. … Robbie Grossman homered on Porcello’s first pitch in the third. … Porcello retired the side in order only once, in the fourth.

Young hit his second home run of the game leading off the fifth. … After hits by Moreland and Leon, Rutledge’s single made it 10-1 in the seventh. … Leon homered in the ninth.

Bogaerts, Benintendi, and Leon each had three hits. Moreland and Young each had two. Everyone in the starting lineup scored at least one run except Moreland (though Deven Marrero, who pinch-ran for Moreland, scored in the seventh).

Searching online, I found two teams that scored 13 runs in an inning with two outs.

July 7, 1923: Cleveland scored 13 runs with two outs in the sixth inning against the Red Sox in the first game of a doubleheader. Cleveland also scored in all eight of the innings in which it batted and won 27-3. (I don’t know if the two outs were made by the first two batters in the inning.)

April 21, 1956: The Kansas City Athletics scored 13 runs with two outs in the second inning against the White Sox and won 15-1. (However, the inning began with a single and a double before two groundouts.)

(I also saw a game from August 8, 1954 mentioned, in which the Brooklyn Dodgers supposedly scored 12 runs after there were two outs in the eighth inning against the Reds. Looking at Baseball Reference, that is not true. The inning began with a triple and a sacrifice fly. Then there was the second out, then all the hits and runs. … And according to the play-by-play, after the second out, Roy Campanella was walked intentionally with no one on base! The Dodgers won 20-7.)

Bonus: On May 23, 1901, Washington led Cleveland 13-5, with Cleveland coming to bat in the bottom of the ninth. The first two hitters were retired, before Cleveland rallied, scoring nine times and winning 14-13.

Double Bonus: In the first game ever played by the Detroit Tigers, on April 25, 1901, they scored 10 runs in the bottom of the ninth and beat Milwaukee 14-13. Then, the next day, the Tigers scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth and won 6-5. They beat Milwaukee 13-9 the following day. And the day after that (April 28), the Tigers scored three times in the bottom of the eighth and four in the bottom of the ninth to beat Milwaukee 12-11.

… and this is it

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