Red Sox 50 Facts

Fact No. 1-10

1. New Red Sox ace David Price is 6-1 with a 1.95 ERA over 11 career starts at Fenway Park.

2. That 1.95 ERA is the best Price has produced in any ballpark in which he has made at least 2 career starts.

3. Price produced those dominant numbers while pitching against the Red Sox. Since Price’s rookie season in 2008, no major league team has scored more runs than the Red Sox. Now that he will be pitching for Boston he will get to pitch in Fenway against lineups that are less potent than those he faced in his career when taking the mound for the visiting team.

4. Joe Kelly strung together 8 consecutive wins after August 1, giving him the longest winning streak by a Red Sox pitcher since Pedro Martinez won 9 straight in 1999.

5. That winning streak surpassed the the 7 consecutive victories that Curt Schilling (2004) and Josh Beckett (2007) accomplished on their way to delivering a World Series championship.

6. Kelly’s winning streak did not fuel the Red Sox to a title. Neither did Pedro’s in ’99.

7. Kelly earned the win in his first start of the season on April 11, but collected only one other win prior to his streak that began in August. He finished with 10 wins.

8. Eduardo Rodriguez led all AL rookie starting pitchers with 10 wins and a 2.5 WAR.

9. Rodriguez led all AL starters with a 1.87 ERA in night games.

10. Only 13 of Rodriguez’s 21 starts (61 percent) came at night last season, while 67 percent of the Red Sox schedule was played at night.

Next: Fact No. 11-20