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2015 Season - Game 141

Posted on July 27, 2014 at 02:25 PM.

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THE BOSTON GLOBE (RED SOX DYNASTY REPORT)

BOSTON, MA - The Red Sox enter September riding a 17 game winning streak, and the way things have been going the Oakland A's all-time record is a possibility. If you ask any of the players, they won't admit the record is on their mind, but the media is buzzing about their streak. The once mighty, now 70-70, Detroit Tigers and Justin Verlander would not be interested in streaks. John Farrell is also uninterested in streaks, the coaching staff is more focused on clinching the division and punching their ticket for October.

The top of the first was a bad omen for Boston and Archer, with Elvis Andrus hitting a solo-HR off a hanging slider. It didn't take long to see that Archer's slider wasn't working, he was going to have to lean on his devastating fastball-change up combo. Luckily for Archer, slider or not, Shane Victorino bailed him out with a clutch 2RBI double with two outs to move into a 2-1 lead.

Victorino's 2RBI double put Boston ahead for good.

Mike Napoli made it 3-1 in the third with an RBI single that brought in Xander Bogaerts from 3rd. Napoli put Boston even further ahead in the 5th with a solo-HR and Will Middlebrooks copied him with one of his own. With Verlander taking a seat after 5 innings the Red Sox went further ahead in the 6th with a Jackie Bradley Jr. sac-fly.

Archer tore through a loaded Tigers offense, shutting them out through the 7th after giving up a run to start the game. Blake Swihart finished off the scoring in the 8th with an RBI single that was scored an E6 after Jose Iglesias threw the ball into the stands. The Tigers didn't help themselves on defense today with two errors, but their hitters went 4/31 with 20K to seal their defeat.