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October 29, 2007
CORRECTION: The Red Sox have scored 10 or more runs FIVE times this postseason, not six times, as incorrectly stated in today’s pregame editions.
-- AARON COOK retired 10 consecutive batters from a 1st-inning ending double play through the 4th inning. He surrendered a leadoff double to MIKE LOWELL to start the 5th inning. Cook became the first Rockies pitcher to pitch at least 5.0 innings in this series. Previous length of starts: Gm. 1 – Jeff Francis (4 ip) Gm. 2 – Ubaldo Jimenez (4.2 ip) Gm. 3 – Josh Fogg (2.2 ip) Cook also collected one of the Rockies’ 3 hits through 6 innings tonight.
-- FEW HOME RUNS: Through 5 innings tonight, only 1 home run had been hit in this World Series, by each team. DUSTIN PEDROIA to lead off Game One for Boston, MATT HOLIDAY in Game Three for Colorado. Should no more home runs be hit, it would mark the fewest Home Run totals for one club since Atlanta hit one home run in 1999. The two home runs by both clubs would mark the fewest combined since 1950 (Phillies – 0, Yankees – 2).
-- JON LESTER pitched 5.2 innings in his first start since Sept. 26. He threw 92 pitches/59 strikes.
-- JACOBY ELLSBURY scored his 4th run of this World Series in the 1st inning, tying DAVID ORTIZ for 2nd most on the team, one behind MIKE LOWELL, who scored his 5th run in the 5th inning. Ellsbury led off the game with his team-leading 4th double of this World Series, two shy of the most in a single World Series by a rookie (6), established by Detroit’s PETE FOX in 1934.
-- JASON VARITEK collected his team-leading 5th RBI of this World Series with his 5th inning single.
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