August 10, 2011: Red Sox at Twins - Game 3 of 3

From Target Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota,

USA

Boston Red Sox

(72-43)

Manager: Terry Francona

@

Minnesota Twins

(51-65)

Manager: Ron Gardenhire

Game 3 of 3

First pitch: 8:10 PM EST


Starting Pitchers
Boston Red Sox - Jon Lester
Minnesota Twins - Nick Blackburn
 
Umpires
Home - Ted Barrett
1B - Brian Runge
2B - Marvin Hudson
3B - Tim Mcclelland

Weather
Party Cloudy
Temp - 74°F | 26°C
Wind - 9mph | 11kph
(centre field to home plate)




















Line ups and pitching totals from ESPN - Box Score.

Colour Legend (as of this date)

Neon Green is a Base Hit Forest Green is a runner advanced by a Base Hit or a Sacrifice Yellow is Intentional Base on Balls, Defensive Indifference, a Sacrafice or Fielder's Choice Red is an out Pink are un-earned bases - Wild Pitch, Passed Ball or an Error Neon Blue is a Stolen Base Navy Blue is a base earned via a Hit or a Sacrifice, that results in a Run Scored

The Scoring Notations

BB Base on Balls - Batter to first base because the umpire ruled that pitched ball was the forth pitch of the at-bat out of the strike zone HBP Hit By Pitch - Batter is ruled by the umpire to have been hit by pitch - awarded one base BH Base Hit - Batter-runner safe at first base via a hit ball 2BH Two Base Hit - Batter-runner safe at second base via a hit ball 3BH Three Base Hit - Batter-runner safe at third base via a hit ball HR Home Run - Batter-runner safe at home plate via a hit ball RBI Run Batted In - via a SAC, a BH or a BB - a run scores RS Run Scored. SAC Sacrifice - With less than two outs the batter causes a base runner to advance but in the process, is put out FC Ball hit on the ground, fielded and a put out made anywhere but at 1B DI Defensive Indifference - A baserunner advances because the defence, for strategic reasons, does nothing IBB Intentional Base on Balls - The defences decides to walk a batter for strategic reasons

SB Stolen Base - Base runner advances on a pitched ball despite the defence's best efforts CS Caught Stealing - A baserunner is put out while tring to advance on a pitch K Called third strike - Batter out because the umpire ruled that with two strikes in an at-bat, a pitched ball was in the strike zone Ks Batter out, swinging third strike IFR Infield Fly Rule - A ball popped up on the infield that an umpire rules is easily catch-able - batter-runner is out, the ball is dead LO Ball caught that was hit so hard it appears like the vector was a straight line GO Ball hit on the ground, fielded and the batter-runner is put out at 1B FO A high arching hit ball caught on the fly by a fielder E The defence allows runners to advance because of less than stallar play Eth The defence allows runners to advance because of less than stallar throw WP Wild Pitch - a pitched ball that bounces in and is not caught by the catcher and that results in a runner advancing PB Passed Ball - a pitched ball that doesn't bounce and is not caught by the catcher and that results in a runner advancing

pop A ball hit in a high arch such that the distance travelled up is greater than the distance travelled from the plate GR To prevent injury, "Ground Rules" define what hit or thrown balls are in, and out of play - announced before each game by the home team manager f Hit ball caught in foul territory - for example "FO3f" - Fly Ball caught by First Base, foul op Out of Play - for example "FO5op", Fly ball caught by Third Base across the railing in the stands, or in the camera bay... BRIF Base runner is out for interfering with the defence while they're making a play on a batted ball Kf2 Foul tip with 2 strikes, caught by catcher - strike three - - - - - - - - - - - -

Box Score - Final	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Runs	Hits	Errors	LOB
Boston Red Sox	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	-	-	2
Minnesota Twins	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	x	-	-	5

Boston Red Sox	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
1.  J Ellsbury CF	CBX FC IF-BH3		CX GB1 FC 1-5 #9 out		FBX FO9		BX GB4 E4 #9 1,2		BCSS Ks
2.  M Scutaro SS	CFFB X FO8		CX pop FO2f /		X LO7 /		RBI BH7 #9 2,H #1 1,2		BCFF X 6-3 /
3.  A Gonzalez 1B	X GB4 FC 4-6 #1 out			CBFF BFS Ks		FBBF BFX FO8	FXFF BX FO9 /
4.  K Youkilis 3B	CX pop FO4f /			CBSF X BH8		FBX LO6		CFBS Perkins + Ks
5.  D Ortiz DH		CFC K		BFBX BH7 #4 1,2		BBCB B BB		BFSX RS RBI HR8
6.  C Crawford LF		CBSX 3UA		CBBS FFBF X FO8		SBX FO8 /		CBSF FFX BH8
7. J Saltalamacchia C		BBCF S Ks /		BFCF BC K /			BX 4-3	X FO3f
8.  J Reddick RF 8th D Pedroia PH 2B			BX 3UA		BBBC X 3UA		CBBBX 4-3	CFBF BX PH 4-3 /
9.  M Aviles 2B - 8th RF			CX FC 2BH7		CX BH9		BFBB B RS BB		BFBB CFFX Nathan + pop FO6
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	0 1 0 1	0 0 0 0	0 1 0 1	0 2 0 2	0 1 0 1	0 0 0 1	1 1 0 2	1 2 0 1	0 0 x 0

Red Sox Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Jon Lester	7.1	8	4	4	5	4	0	119/73	3.32
Alfredo Aceves	0.1	3	1	1	1	0	0	15/6	3.29
Andrew Miller	0.1	0	0	0	1	1	0	8/3	5.40

Minnesota Twins	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
1.  D Span CF	BBCX 4-3		BCSX 4-3			BCFF BC K	SBSF BBB BB #7 2,3 #8 1,2	BBBB BB
2. B Revere RF	BX CS BH8		BbFF S Ks			BBCB B RS BB	CX 3UA /	CBCS Ks /
3. J Mauer C	BCB1 BB RS #2 CS 1-3-6 BB		CBX 3UA /			BCBX RBI GR-2BH7 #2 1,H ???		CBCB BB RS BB
4. M Cuddyer 1B	CSX BH9 #3 1,3			BCCX 5-3		X FO3f		CBFX 4-3 #3 1,2
5. J Thome DH 8th PR  J Repko	BSBX RBI BH8 #3 3,H #4 1,3			BCSF BX 5-3		CBSS Ks /		RS RBI 2BH7 deep #3 2,H PR Lester  -
6. D Valencia 3B	BBBC SX 6-3 /			X 5-3 /			BX 5-3	CBBX A Aceves + RS RBI 2BH7 #5 2,H
7. D Young LF		CBBS BFFB doubled off 1B BB			BCX DP BH8		X BH8	BBBB (#9 8-2) IBB
8. T Plouffe 2B 8th M Tolbert 2B		CFFF BFS Ks			GB 2nd DP 6-3 #7 out		CCX BH7 #7 1,2	FX BH9 deep #6 2,3 #7 1,2
9. T Nishioka SS		.X pop FO4 DP 4-3 #7 dbld off /			CBX pop FO4 /		X pop FO4	BH8 #6 3,H #7 8-2 out #8 1,3 #9 1,2 (thr)
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	1 3 0 2	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 1 0 0	1 1 0 1	0 2 1 3	3 4 0 3	x x 0 x

Twins' Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Nick Blackburn	6.2	6	1	0	2	4	0	108/69	4.36
Glen Perkins	1.1	2	1	1	0	1	1	28/22	2.12
Joe Nathan	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	17/12	5.12