--RHP Mike Timlin extended his franchise lead when he appeared in his 27th playoff game for the Red Sox in Saturday night's loss. The 42-year-old reliever has pitched in 45 postseason games overall and has a 4.08 ERA in 48 2/3 innings pitched in the playoffs. After he walked the bases loaded in the 11th inning and gave up the game-ending sacrifice fly, Timlin's postseason record fell to 0-3 in the aforementioned 45 games. Timlin has also won four World Championships: two with the Sox and two with the Toronto Blue Jays.
--RHP Jonathan Papelbon pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings for the Sox in Saturday night's extra-inning defeat and extended his postseason record for most career scoreless innings to 22 over 14 playoff appearances. Papelbon has two wins and six saves mixed in with the scoreless innings, and of the 75 batters he has faced, only 14 have reached base via a hit or walk. Papelbon was hit in the right shoulder by a glancing live drive during the 10th inning, but he finished the inning and insisted afterward that he was fine. --2B Dustin Pedroia, 1B Kevin Youkilis and LF Jason Bay all launched solo home runs in the top of the fifth inning to give the Sox a short-lived lead, and the power surge also tied a postseason record for most home runs in an inning by one team. It also marked the second consecutive postseason that the Sox have tied the mark; three Sox hitters also went deep in the sixth inning of Game 4 of the 2007 ALCS in Cleveland. The Sox had gone three playoff games without a home run before their four homers in Game 2.
--3B Kevin Youkilis went 3-for-6 in Saturday night's loss and has hit safely in all 9 LCS games that he's played in during his career. It is the longest LCS hitting streak to start a career since the Angels' Darin Erstad hit safely in his first nine LCS games from 2002 to 2005. The longest LCS hitting streak to start a career is 13 games, by the Phillies' Greg Luzinski from 1976 to 1980. Youkilis also recorded his ALCS-record fourth straight three-hit game and boasts the highest LCS batting average (.526) in major league history among players with at least 30 at-bats.
--LF Jason Bay continues to perform at the plate in his first career postseason. Bay is hitting .440 with three doubles, three home runs and 9 RBI in six postseason games.
BY THE NUMBERS: 18 -- Number of runs that the Red Sox have scored this postseason with two outs. They have 28 runs total.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "I know it's tough, but in my mind I threw some pretty doggone good pitches. He saw it the other way. In my opinion, he missed a couple (of pitches)." -- RHP Mike Timlin, talking about some borderline balls-and-strikes calls by home plate ump Sam Holbrook during Game 2's pivotal 11th inning.
