The Red Sox Come Back from Six Deficits to Win

Nothing and no one seems able to stop the Boston Red Sox these days. And their game last night (Thursday) against their crossover rivals, the Chicago White Sox, was yet another example of that.

In what was the game of the year in Major League Baseball—at least from the perspective of Boston fans—the Red Sox defeated the White Sox 12–11 in thirteen innings in a game that featured 29 hits and 17 pitchers.

It was the Massachusetts team's eighth consecutive win and their 31st victory in their last 36 games.

The game could have ended in the White Sox's favor so many times, but the Red Sox, as they have done so often over the past two months, refused to admit defeat. The best example: a dramatic game-tying single in the bottom of the ninth inning by Wilyer Abreu, with Boston facing its final at-bat.

From there on, the Red Sox matched Chicago's offensive output in every extra inning, scoring two runs in the tenth, one in the eleventh, and one in the twelfth.

Brayan Bello then managed to shut down the Windy City's offense early in the thirteenth inning, and Caleb Durbin finished the job in the next half-inning to secure the victory for his team.

This makes the Red Sox the first team in the modern era—that is, since 1900—to score in at least five separate innings in the ninth inning or later.

Just imagine: the Red Sox took the lead for the first and only time of the night around 11:40 p.m., after having to overcome six deficits—4-0, 5-2, 7-5, 9-7, 10-9, and 11-10—to clinch this spectacular victory.

Unbelievable.

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