redsox.com: BOSTON -- By the end of a wild Sunday at Fenway Park, the Red Sox were simply out of pitchers. So position player Darnell McDonald tried to act like one and give his team an uplifting end to a tough homestand.
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It was not to be. Adam Jones belted a three-run homer off McDonald -- the ninth pitcher of the day for Boston -- lifting Baltimore to a 9-6 victory in 17 innings.
Fenway Park, which is celebrating birthday No. 100 this season, has probably never seen a game quite like this.
The teams combined to use 18 pitchers, a Fenway record. Not only was a position player (McDonald) the losing pitcher, but a position player (Chris Davis) was the winning pitcher. Davis became the first American League position player to win a game since Rocky Colavito did so for the Yankees in 1968. By Ian Browne / MLB.com
Jasper's thoughts: "Well this was a tough loss, you would always like to take the rubber game of the series, especially when you're trying to avoid a sweep. when Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine put in Darnell McDonald as a pitcher, you knew that he wasn't worried about getting the win. There was no point in putting a starter in the game at that point, because it would screw up the rotation for the rest of the week, and maybe beyond that. McDonald was not a very good pitcher to say the least."
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