19 to Know about Boston’s 19-inning 6-5 victory on Friday night

Dustin Pedroia, Xander Bogaerts, and Pablo Sandoval look up at lights that went dim
against the Yankees during the 12th inning at Yankee Stadium.
Credit: Adam Hunger-USA TODAY Sports

So you know already that the headline is wrong. Yes, the Sox did win, and yes, the score was 6-5, but the game ended at 2:13 Saturday morning. And it was a game for the books.

Here are your 19 to Know

1. It took the Sox six-hours and 49 minutes to beat the Yankees Friday night, or put another way, it was the first Sox game ever to last over 400 minutes. The 409-minute game topped the previous longest, 395-minute loss to the Texas Rangers on August 25, 2001. And, by the way, the 16-minute delay due to a power outage was deducted from this time total.
2. Sox pitchers went 19 innings in this 6-5 victory, the same distance they went when they defeated the Indians, 8-7, in 1965. They threw 19.1 innings in a 4-3 loss to the Yankees on August 29, 1967 at the Stadium in the second game of a doubleheader (!). The Sox have played two 20-inning games since 1914, losing 8-7 to the Seattle Mariners in 1981 and defeating the Seattle Pilots (now the Milwaukee Brewers) in 1969.
3. The Sox used nine pitchers tying a team record previously set on August 9, 2014 against Baltimore, September 22, 2012 against Baltimore, June 6, 2012 against Baltimore, April 15, 2014 against Baltimore, and August 25, 2001 against Texas. It was the first time they used nine pitchers and won the game.
4. Red Sox pitchers totaled 296 pitches, the second most in a game falling just one pitch shy of their team record set in a 17-inning loss to Baltimore on May 6, 2012. In that game and Friday night, Sox pitchers recorded 176 strikes.
5. The Sox left 20 runners on base, just the fifth time since 1914 that they crossed that barrier. In 1951, they beat the Browns (they are now the Orioles), 3-1, and left 22 on base in the 13-inning game. They left 21 against the Orioles in a 17-inning loss in 1954 and 21 in a loss to the Yankees on April 16, 1978 at the Stadium that went 18 innings.
6. The Yankees left only 13 runners on base. The most they ever left on base against Boston was 23 in a 12-11 Red Sox in 1927.
7. The Yankees were 2-12 with runners in scoring position, the Red Sox were 3-16.
8. David Ortiz has hit 11 extra-inning homers with Boston. Ted Williams hit 13. No other Red Sox has hit more than eight. His 16th inning blast was his latest in a game and Papi “got heeem” matching Kevin Millar’s 16th inning walkoff homer against Tampa Bay on April 1, 2003.
9. The Sox scored in the 1st, 6th, 16th, 18th and 19th innings. The Yankees scored in the 6th, 9th, 16th, and 18th.
10. Xander Bogaerts and Pablo Sandoval tied their career high with a four-hit game. Bogaerts picked them all up in extra innings.
11. Mookie Betts was 1-8 saw a game-high 47 pitches. Betts recorded a career-high four whiffs.
12. Mike Napoli tied his career high with four strikeouts. He’s done it six times in his career, five times with Boston since 2013.
13. The game ended at 2:13 a.m., which meant that when the game started, Mark Teixeira started the game he was 34 years old and when the game ended, he was celebrating his 35th birthday. The switch-hitting Teixeira homered against knuckleballer Steven Wright and hit righty against the righty and hit his second career homer righty vs. righty.
14. The record since 1914 for plate appearances in a game is 12 held by five batters including Carlton Fisk, when he was with the White Sox. Friday night, both Mookie Betts and Dustin Pedroia had 10 PA tying the team record also held by Dwight Evans, Jim Rice, and Jerry Remy who broadcast the entire game with Don Orsillo.
15. In Remy’s game on September 3, 1981 against Seattle, the Rem Dawg went 6-10, the most AB for any Red Sox since 1914. Friday night, Pablo Sandoval and Hanley Ramirez joined 14 other Sox with nine AB.
16. At one point in the game, two fans dropped $1 bills into the expensive suites below, to see if people in the high-priced seats would battle for them. They didn’t and were stopped around the $20 mark.
17. Feeling good on Saturday morning were Brock Holt, Clay Buchholz, Rick Porcello and Justin Masterson, the only Sox players who did not get into the game.
18. After taking two of three this weekend, the Red Sox are now 30-29 at the current Yankee Stadium (2009), the most wins by any visitor in the stadium’s history. The Yankees finished their season-opening six-game homestand with a 2-4 record and are now to 8-6 in their last 14 home games vs. Boston at the Stadium (since 9/8/13). The Red Sox finished their season-opening six-game road trip with a 4-2 record.
19. It was the first American League extra-innings game of the season. There have now been 4.5 including the Rays against Marlins.