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| 1911 |
At the start of the seventh inning at Boston's Huntington Avenue Grounds, Stuffy McInnis hits Ed Karger's warm-up pitch into short center field, leading to an inside-the-park home run against the out-of-position Red Sox outfielders. American League president Ban Johnson upholds the play on appeal, but the event causes a change in the no-warm-up rule implemented due to his concern that some games took over two hours to play.
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| 2003 | In the fifty-minute first inning at Fenway Park against the Marlins, the Red Sox establish a major league record by scoring ten runs before making an out. With a single, double, and triple, leadoff hitter Johnny Damon ties former Boston outfielder Gene Stephen's modern major league mark with three hits in an inning when the home team equals an American League record for most runs in the first frame with 14. |
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