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October 17, 2007
FIRST PITCH: 8:22 p.m.
GAME-TIME TEMPERATURE: 66 degrees
ATTENDANCE: 44,008
TIME OF GAME: 3:12
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-- A 3-1 ADVANTAGE: Cleveland has won 3 straight games in this series to take a 3-1 series advantage over the Boston Red Sox . . . Game Five will be played Thursday, following an off-day on Wednesday…It marks the 14th time in ALCS a team has led 3-1, most recently Chicago over LA in 2005…Of the previous 13 to build 3-1 leads, 10 have advanced to the World Series, the exceptions coming in 2004 (Boston, rallying for 4 straight after 0-3), 1986 (Boston, rallying from 3-1 deficit to California), and 1985 Kansas City (rallying from a 3-1 deficit to Toronto).
-- CASEY BLAKE tied a pair of LCS records: first with 2 hits in the 5th inning, the 11th time in history, the first since Florida’s JUAN PIERRE in the 8th inning of Game 6 of the 2003 NLCS (Oct. 14) at Chicago, second five total bases (HR and single) on his 2 hits, becoming the 3rd player in LCS history with 5 total bases in an inning, joining Pittsburgh’s BARRY BONDS in the 2nd inning of the 1992 NLCS Game 6 (Oct. 13) against Atlanta and Anaheim’s ADAM KENNEDY in the 7th inning of Game 4 against Minnesota of the 2002 ALCS (Oct. 13).
-- BIG 5TH INNING: The Indians scored 7 runs in the 5th inning tonight, a frame that lasted 35 minutes and featured 7 hits, 2 home runs, 1 hit batsman and 1 walk…The inning was the 2nd 7-run inning of the series for the Indians, who also totaled 7 runs in the 11th inning of Game 2 at Boston…It marks the 2nd time in ALCS history that a team has scored 7 runs in an inning twice in the same series, as Baltimore in 1970 scored 7 runs in the 4th inning of Game 1 against
Minnesota (10-6 win) and 9th inning of Game 2 (11-3).
-- THREE CONSECUTIVE HOME RUNS: For the first time in LCS history, three players connected on back-to-back-to-back home runs, as KEVIN YOUKILIS, DAVID ORTIZ and MANNY RAMIREZ hit 3 straight home runs in the top of the 6th inning…Three consecutive home runs in the postseason has been done just once before, in the 1997 ALDS, by New York against Cleveland in Game 1 (Sept. 30) in the 6th inning with 2 outs when TIM RAINES (ERIC PLUNK), DEREK
JETER (Plunk) and PAUL O’NEIL (PAUL ASSENMACHER) went back-to-back-to-back…The 3 home runs in an inning
by Boston tied an LCS record, the 6th time in history, first since Florida on Oct. 7, 2003…This was the 6th time in postseason history that the Red Sox have hit back-to-back home runs, the 3rd time this postseason…Ortiz and Ramirez totaled their 11th career postseason home runs with the Red Sox, establishing a team record.
-- MANNY RAMIREZ extended his LCS-hitting streak to 14 games with a 2nd inning single, the 2nd longest hitting streak in LCS history, one game shy of PETE ROSE, who compiled a 15-game hitting streak in LCS play from 1973-’83…Ramirez has hit safely in all 7 postseason games in 2007, matching Arizona’s STEPHEN DREW for most consecutive games with a hit this postseason…His 6th inning home run was his 10th career in LCS play, establishing an LCS record, breaking a tie with GEORGE BRETT, for most all-time…It was his 24th career postseason home run, extending his own record.
-- RED SOX STARTERS: In each of the last 3 games of this series, Red Sox starting pitchers have lasted 4.2 innings each, the 2nd time in Boston postseason history that three consecutive starters failed to pitch 5.0 innings…In 1999,
Boston starters lasted fewer than 5.0 innings in the final two games of the ALDS against Cleveland (Game 4 – 1.2 ip – KENT MERCKER, Game 5 – 1.0 ip – BRET SABERHAGEN) and in Game 1 of the 1999 ALCS against New York (4.0 ip – KENT MERCKER)…In the 2007 regular season, Red Sox starters never went more than 2 consecutive starts of fewer than 5.0 innings…The trio has combined for a 9.00 ERA (14 ER/14.0 IP) in the last 3 games.
-- KENNY LOFTON recorded his 34th career postseason stolen base, his 2nd this postseason, moving one ahead of RICKEY HENDERSON for most all-time.
-- KEVIN YOUKILIS committed an error in the 6th inning, his first error of the season and his first since July 4, 2006…Youkilis had totaled 1,644 consecutive total chances since his last error, including the postseason.
-- JHONNY PERALTA connected on his 2nd 3-run home run of this series, in the 5th inning off MANNY DELCARMEN, also launching a 3-run home run in the 4th inning of Game 2 at Boston.
-- ANOTHER GIDP: For the 4th straight game, the Red Sox hit into a double play, giving the team 8 GIDPs through 4 games, the most ever by one team in the first 3 games of an LCS of any length…The record for most GIDPs in a series
was set by Baltimore with 10 in 1997.
-- SHORT HOPS: The Indians have scored first in every game this series…TRAVIS HAFNER struck out his first 4 at-bats, tying an LCS record, the 7th time in history, the first since MARK BELLHORN for Boston on Oct. 16, 2004…VICTOR MARTINEZ and ASDRUBAL CABRERA batted right-handed against TIM WAKEFIELD in their 3 at-bats against him…The Indians announced a revised attendance figure for Game Three of 44,382.
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