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October 12, 2007
-- The Sox broke a club record for walks in an ALCS game with 8. The previous record was 6, set in Game Five against the Yankees on Oct. 18, 1999.
-- Manny Ramirez' three walks tied a team ALCS record for walks in a game, set first by Don Baylor in Game Two in 1986 and tied by Johnny Damon in Game Six in 2003.
-- The Sox have walked 24 times in four games this postseason.
-- Josh Beckett has now won three consecutive postseason starts. The six innings he pitched was the shortest postseason start of his career.
-- David Ortiz has now hit safely in nine straight postseason games, a streak that began in Game Three of the 2004 World Series. Since Game Five of the 2003 ALCS, Ortiz is hitting .433 (39-for-90) in the postseason with 21 walks, 24 runs scored and 27 RBI, and has hit safely in 22 of the 24 games.
-- Mike Timlin made his 21st career LCS appearance, moving past Rick Honeycutt into sole possession of second place on the all-time list. Next up: Mariano Rivera, with 25.
-- Teams that have won the first game of an ALCS have gone on to win the series 60 percent of the time (22 of 37). The Sox are now 3-5 in first games of the LCS, beating Oakland in 1975 and the Yankees in 2003 prior to Friday night.
-- Friday was only the third time in the last eight years that the home team won the first game of the ALCS.
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