17/Sept/2011 Rays at Red Sox - Game 3 of 4

Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Tampa Bay Rays

(83-67)

Manager: Joe Maddon

@

Boston Red Sox

(87-63)

Manager: Terry Francona

Game 3 of 4

First pitch: 4:10 PM EST


Starting Pitchers
Tampa Bay Rays - Jeff Niemann
Boston Red Sox - Jon Lester


Umpires
Home - Brian Knight
1B - Jerry Layne
2B - Bob Davidson
3B - Hunter Wendelstedt

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Line-ups and Pitching Totals help from ESPN - Boxscore.
Play-by-Play from MLB Gameday.

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 of any base runner other than the batter-runner 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 Ksf2 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
Tampa Bay Rays	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	-	-	4	6	0
Boston Red Sox	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	-	-	3	7	0

Tampa Bay Rays	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 Jennings LF	RS BB		RS WP 2BH7		FO8		Ks //
2.  B Upton CF	SAC GB5 5-3 #1 1,2		6-3 #1 2,3		BH8 #8 1,2			D Bard + FO8
3.  E Longoria 3B	4-3 #1 2,3		WP #1 3,H BB		RBI BH9 #8 2,H #2 1,3			pop FO4
4.  B Zobrist 2B	RS 2RBI HR7 #1 3,H		FO8 //		K //			3UA //
5.  J Damon DH	pop FO2 //			CS BB		FO8			F Morales + FC . BH8
6.  S Rodriguez SS 6th Reid Brignac SS		FO7		DP #5 CS 2-6 BB		pop FO4			FC bunt 3 FC 3-4-6 ? #5 out
7.  C Kotchman 1B		1-3		GB3 DP 3-6-1 #6 out //		3UA //			balk #6 1,2 6-3 #6 2,3
8.  B Guyer RF 9th S Fuid RF		Ks //			RS BH7		LO5		4-3 //
9.  J Lobaton C			K		pop FO4		Ks
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	2 1 0 0	0 0 0 0	1 1 0 1	0 0 0 0	1 3 1 2	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 1 0 1

Tampa Bay Rays Bench

Fielders

Bullpen

Starters

Rays' Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Jeff Niemann	5.0	3	2	2	2	6	0	89/56	3.95
Matt Moore	3.0	2	1	1	2	2	0	58/33	6.23
Joel Peralta	1.0	1	0	0	0	2	0	19/12	3.13

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	K		SAC RBI FO9 #8 3,H		CS SB GB6 E6		SAC RBI WP #9 1,2 6-3 #7 3,H #9 2,3
2.  D Pedroia 2B	5-3		FO8 //		#1 1,2 #1 CS 1-5 // --->	M Moore + 3UA	Ks2f //
3.  A Gonzalez 1B	Ks //			BB		BB		Ks
4.  D Ortiz DH		6-3		FO8		FC BB #3 1,2		FO8
5.  J Reddick RF 8th PH C Jackson 9th D McDonald RF		DP BB		FC BH9 #3 1,2		GB4 FC 4-6 #4 out #3 2,3		PH pop FO6 //
6.  J Saltalamacchia C		GB5 DP 5-4-3 #5 out //		Ks		pop FO4 //			J Peralta + Ks
7.  C Crawford LF			RS BH8	GB4 FC 4UA #5 out //			RS GB 2nd BH8		Ks
8.  M Aviles 3B 9th PR Joey Gathright			RS RBI 2BH7(8) #7 1,H		K		IF-BH6 slow #7 1,2		SB GB 2nd 4, 6np BH PR
9.  M Scutaro SS			bunt 1 1-3 #8 2,3		K		bunt 5 FC 5-6 #8 out #7 2,3		#8 1,2 5-3 ///
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	2 2 0 0	0 1 0 2	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 2	1 2 0 1	0 0 0 0	0 1 0 1

Boston Red Sox Bench

Fielders

Bullpen

Starters

Red Sox Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Jon Lester	7.0	5	4	4	4	5	1	107/63	3.15
Daniel Bard	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12/8	3.01
Franklin Morales	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	10/9	3.64