July 15, 2005: The Red Sox matched their worst drubbing of the New York Yankees, winning at Fenway Park by a score of 17-1 behind Big Papi's grand slam home run and Trot Nixon's inside-the-park homer; the 17-1 runaway win equaled the result of the Red Sox win at Yankee Stadium just 7 weeks earlier on May 28, 2005. [...]

July 14, 1917: Carl Yastrzemski goes four-for-six for the American League All-Star team as the American League falls short at Riverfront Stadium, but the National League prevails in twelve innings by a score of 5-4; Yaz is only the second American League player to have four hits in the All-Star game and he joins another Red Sox left fielder named Ted William [...]

July 18, 1988: The Red Sox fire manager John McNamara and name Joe Morgan of Walpole, MA, as their "interim" manager; the Red Sox win their first 12 games with Morgan at the helm, 19 of his first 20 games, 24-straight at Fenway Park, and Morgan Magic" is born while Morgan goes on to manage the Red Sox successfully for 3.5 years. [...]

July 12, 1951: A record Comiskey Park crowd of 52,592, turns out to watch a twi-night doubleheader between the Sox, White and Red; the record crowd saw a 17-inning second game, then a record for a night game, and watched White Sox pitcher Saul Rogovin pitch all 17 innings and Ellis Kinder pitch 11 innings in relief but the Red Sox prevailed 3-2 and 5-4. [...]

July 11, 1954: The Red Sox sweep a doubleheader played in Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium, winning the first game 18-0, and the nightcap by a score of 11-1; it was just as well that only 7,445 showed up for the drubbing, which featured six scored runs by Ted Williams and six RBI from Jackie Jensen. [...]