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| 1950 |
The Red Sox outslug the A's at Philadelphia's Shibe Park, 22-14. The two-hour and fifty-minute contest establishes a new American League record, with the teams combining to score 36 runs in one game.
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| 1986 | The White Sox trade veteran right-hander Tom Seaver to the Red Sox for Steve Lyons. 'Tom Terrific' will finish his Hall of Fame career this season in Boston, but he will not pitch in the World Series against the Mets, his first major league team that still refers to him as 'The Franchise.' |
| 2010 |
South Carolina (54–16 overall, 21–9 SEC) wins the first of two consecutive College World Series championships when Whit Merrifield's 11th-inning RBI single beats UCLA, 2-1, giving the school its first NCAA team national championship in any men's sport. The Gamecocks set a CWS record with six consecutive wins after losing their first game, becoming only the third club to accomplish the feat in the collegiate tourney.
(Ed. Note - The attending press selects future Red Sox center fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. as the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. -LP) |
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