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A Chronological History of Amazing Boston Red Sox Losses, Remarkable Collapses and Other Record Breaking Feats
1901- | 1910-1919 | 1920- | 1930- | 1940- | 1950- | 1960- | 1970- | 1980- | 1990- | 2000-1910 81-72, 4th place in the American League, 22-1/2 games back of the Philadelphia Athletics
April 28, 1910: Despite getting sixteen hits over twelve innings, the Red Sox lost to Walter Johnson and the Washington Senators, 2-1. Johnson struck out twelve Red Sox.
June 6, 1910: Ed Walsh allowed only one hit, a single by OF Duffy Lewis, as the White Sox beat the Red Sox 1-0.
August 11, 1910: Ed Walsh threw a three-hitter, striking out fifteen Red Sox, as the Chicago White Sox won 1-0. Chicago scored their only run when Patsy Dougherty was sacrificed home after hitting a triple in the second inning.
October 1, 1910: Philadelphia beat the Red Sox 3-0 in Athletics pitcher Clarence "Lefty" Russell's first major league start. It was his only win over his three-year career. The victory was Philly's 100th of the season. They beat the Sox in their next three games, giving the Athletics an 18-4 record against Boston in 1910.
1911 78-75, 4th place in the American League, 24 games back of the Philadelphia Athletics
April 12, 1911: Boston lost to Washington, 8-5, in the first game ever played in Griffith Stadium.
May 6, 1911: In the top of the ninth during a 6-3 victory over the Red Sox, Boston C Bill Carrigan lined out into the the first triple play in New York's history.
June 8, 1911: During an eight-run fourth inning, four St. Louis batters reached first on Boston errors. The Browns won the game 11-5.
June 27, 1911: A new "warm up rule" was in effect; pitchers were not allowed to warm up prior to the start of an inning. Before Boston's fielders took their positions in the eighth, Athletics 1B Jack "Stuffy" McInnis hit an inside the park home run (to center field) on Ed Karger's illegal warm up pitch. It helped Philly win 7-3.
August 27, 1911: The Red Sox were no-hit by the White Sox's "Big" Ed Walsh. Walsh walked Boston's Clyde Engle in the fourth inning, the only time that a Boston batter reached base. Chicago won the game 5-0.
1912 105-47, World Series Champions
May 30, 1912: The Washington Senators blanked the Red Sox 5-0 -- the first time that the Red Sox were shutout in Fenway Park.
September 19, 1912: In the first half of a doubleheader, the game was called due to rain after five innings; Cleveland won 9-3 over Boston. After the rain stopped, the second half was played. It was called after six innings due to darkness, and Cleveland won 6-0.
1913 79-71, 4th place in the American League, 15-1/2 games back of the Philadelphia Athletics
June 11, 1913: In the top of the fifteenth inning, with the score tied at five, Cleveland 3B Ivy Olson stole home. The Indians scored three more runs (including another on a steal of home by OF Jack Graney) as they beat the Red Sox 9-5. It is the only time in baseball history in which two teammates stole home in extra innings.
July 3, 1913: Washington's Walter Johnson tossed a fifteen inning, 1-0, complete-game shutout over the Red Sox. Boston had fifteen hits, the most ever by a team that was shut out.
July 31-August 2, 1913: The Cleveland Indians had a five-game sweep of the Red Sox at Fenway.
September 6, 1913: Philadelphia's Eddie Collins stole home twice, tying the major league record, during a 9-2 Athletics victory over the Red Sox.
1914 91-62, 2nd place in the American League, 8-1/2 games back of the Philadelphia Athletics
October 14, 1914: Harry Brecheen was born in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. "The Cat" won three games in the 1946 World Series against the Red Sox, posting a 0.45 ERA over 20 innings.
1915 101-50, World Series Champions
June 9, 1915: The Detroit Tigers had seventeen hits, as they shutout the Red Sox, 15-0. Ty Cobb had three of Detroit's six stolen bases, including a steal of home in the third inning.
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1916 91-63, World Series Champions
April 12, 1916: A salary dispute resulted in the Red Sox trading Tris Speaker to the Indians for "Sad" Sam Jones, Fred Thomas and cash. Jones pitched for the Red Sox for six years, going 64-59; he lost twenty games for the 1919 Sox. Thomas played in 44 games for Boston. Speaker continued to play until 1928 when he retired with a career batting average of .345. In his first year with Cleveland he hit .386. He played eleven years for the Indians, batting over .300 in ten of those year (he hit only .296 in 1919). He is still considered one of the greatest hitters, and defensive outfielders, the game has ever known.
April 27, 1916: Enos Slaughter was born in Roxboro, North Carolina. "Country" Enos Slaughter scored the winning run of game seven in the 1946 World Series against the Red Sox. It was on a bizarre play in which John Pesky hesitated on the cutoff, allowing Slaughter to score from first.
July 10, 1916: Chicago's Claude "Lefty" Williams shutout the Red Sox, 4-0, in the first game of a doubleheader. Teammate Rob Russell shut them out, 3-0, in the second game.
September 24, 1916: The Cleveland Indians were facing Boston's Dutch Leonard. In the fifth inning, Cleveland's 1B Chick Gandil doubled, 3B Terry Turner walked, and C Steve O'Neill was hit by a pitch. Manager Lee Fohl called upon Marty Kavanaugh to pinch hit for pitcher Joe Boehling. Kavanaugh hit the first pinch-hit grand slam in the history of the American League. Cleveland won the game 5-3.
December 4, 1916: The Red Sox announced that Harry Frazee and Hugh Ward had purchased the team.
1917 90-62, 2nd place in the American League, 9 games back of the Chicago White Sox
April 24, 1917: George Mogridge pitched a no-hitter against Boston, winning 2-1 for the Yankees.
June 1, 1917: Cleveland's Guy Morton pitched a one-hitter, winning 3-0 over Boston. Ray Chapman and Bobby Roth both stole home for the Indians in the fourth inning.
The 1917 Red Sox matched their prior season slugging percentage of .318.
1918 75-51, World Series Champions
1919-1945
The Boston Red Sox never placed first in the eight-team American League during this 27 year stretch, finishing an average of thirty games behind in the standings. They came in last nine times, and had five 100-plus-loss seasons.
1919 66-71, tied for 5th place in the American League, 20-1/2 games back of the White Sox
June 18, 1919: St. Louis beat Boston, 3-2. The game ended when Boston's Wally Schang fell victim to the hidden ball trick, executed by Browns 3B Jimmy Austin.
July 13, 1919: During a 14-9 loss in Chicago, Boston pitcher Carl Mays quit between innings after his teammates made several errors. He was subsequently traded to New York, a move that AL President Ban Johnson tried to block. The Yankees took Johnson to court. This created two political factions in the league, which eventually resulted in the creation of a baseball commissioner to oversee both the National and American Leagues.
July 17, 1919: Boston lost to Cleveland, 4-0. The Red Sox had not beaten the Indians since August 19, 1918 -- a span of ten games.
September 27, 1919: Babe Ruth played his last game for the Red Sox. It is also the day that future Red Sox shortstop and manager Johnny Pesky was born in Portland, Oregon.
"Sad" Sam Jones allowed 102 earned runs, the most in the major leagues.
December 26, 1919: The Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. The sale represented the third time in eleven years that Boston dealt away one of baseball's greatest players ever (Young, Speaker, and Ruth). The announcement of the deal was delayed until Ruth agreed to terms with his new team.
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