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Saturday, August 22, 2026

Dodgers Strikeout Record 24 Red Sox, Win 2-1

In almost 50 years of Statis-Pro baseball we have never seen this, and will never see it again.

Shohei Ohtani allowed two singles to start the game, with Jarren Duran hitting a single and stealing 2nd base, then scoring on a single by Wilyer Abreu to put the Dodgers behind for the second time in a row to start the semifinal baseball. then Dodgers pitches struck out 24 of the last 31 batters of the game in a 2-1 win. In actual MLB play the Dodgers did strike out 26 Brewers in 2017, but it took 12 innings. The odds of this every happening again are nonexistent, but it also points out the incredible pitching the Dodgers have assembled.

In the first pool the Dodgers won their four games by an average 8.8 to 2.8 to dominate, but competition has been tougher in this semifinal pool.

The Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet kept that 1-0 lead into the fifth inning when the botton of the Dodgers line-up put together two singles with a popout in between. Pitcher Shohei Ohtani then singled home Mookie Betts to tiethe game 1-1. Then on the play of the game, Kyle Tucker hit a deep drive to left field, and while Tommy Edman's OBR B was just too slow to tag up and race home like an OBR A would have done, the old 1978 Statis-Pro board's Advancing on Fly ball option chart of the T3 (average throwing arm of Jarren Duran showed 11-36 safe range if Edman tried to tag and score,but because it was a deep drive you add 20 and his chances to give him just better of a 11-56 score whereas he would have been thrown out on a 57-88.

He beat the tag barely on a 53 random number to make it 2-1 Dodgers and noone would score again. If you want to make decisions like this, click on the free Statis-Pro baseball game to pull up the teams and play yourself. The old board with the option to adcance is in the photo below.

The most amazing part of this unbelievable appearnce was Blake Snell coming in with a man on first base in the 6th inning and throwing three perfect innings by striking out 8 of 9 batters faced.

LAD	IP	H	R	ER	W	K	PB-	Th	Strikeout!	Max IP	ERA
Shohei Ohtani	5	4	1	1	1	13	2'-9	R	22 to 55	7	3.46
Blake Snell	3	0	0	0	0	8	2'-8	L	21 to 56	7	3.54
Edwin Díaz	1	1	0	0	0	3	2'-8	R	21 to 58	2	3.03
	9	5	1	1	1	24

BOS	IP	H	R	ER	W	K	PB-	Th	Strikeout!	Max IP	ERA
Garrett Crochet	5.1	6	2	2	0	5	2'-8	L	22 to 55	8	3.02
Justin Slaten	0.2	1	0	0	0	2	2'-7	R	25 to 45	2	3.97
Erik Miller	1	0	0	0	1	0	2'-7	L	22 to 53	2	3.45
Garrett Whitlock	1	1	0	0	1	2	2'-8	R	23 to 51	2	3.47
Patrick Sandoval	1	1	0	0	0	2	2'-7	L	25 to 45	3	3.79
	9	9	2	2	2	11

The Dodgers have the edge in the semifinal pool but it was nothing like the first pool where they were scoring over 8 runs a game to dominate. If the Mets or Red Sox can end up with a better run differential and tie the 4-game record by the end of the semifinal pool play, the could still keep the Dodgers out of the final championship 3-team pool.

1. Los Angeles Dodgers 2-0, +5 run differential

2. Boston Red Sox 0-1, -1 run differential

3. New York Mets 0-1, -4 run differential

Pos	LAD	AB	R	H	RBI	Extra	Bats	HR	SP	OPS	Def
DH	Shohei Ohtani	5	0	2	1		LP	23 to 32	A	0.958	CD1
RF	Kyle Tucker	4	0	0	1	gw-SF	LP	25 to 28	A	0.827	CD3
3b	Max Muncy	3	0	0	0		RP	18 to 26	D	0.861	CD4
1b	Freddie Freeman	4	0	0	0		LP	28 to 33	C	0.832	CD3
CF	Andy Pages	4	0	0	0		RP	27 to 34	C	0.839	CD5
C	Will Smith	4	0	3	0	2b	RP	25 to 28	D	0.79	CD5
SS	Mookie Betts	4	1	2	0		RP	28 to 32	C	0.783	CD4
LF	Teoscar Hernández	3	0	0	0		RP	26 to 32	C	0.771	CD1
2b	Tommy Edman	4	1	2	0	sb	SN	27 to 31	B	0.706	CD4
		35	2	9	2

Pos	BOS	AB	R	H	RBI	Extra	Bats	HR	SP	OPS	Def
LF	Jarren Duran	4	1	1	0	sb	LN	31 to 32	A	0.763	CD3
DH	Wilyer Abreu	4	0	2	1		LP	25 to 28	C	0.789	CD4
1B	Willson Contreras	4	0	0	0	4k	SP	25 to 28	D	0.785	CD2
C	Adley Rutschman	4	0	2	0	2 2b	SN	26 to 28	D	0.764	CD5
PR	Isiah Kiner-Falefa	0	0	0	0		RN	33 to 33	C	0.651	CD2
RF	Roman Anthony	3	0	0	0		RN	27 to 28	C	0.764	CD4
2b	Romy Gonzalez	4	0	0	0		RN	32 to 34	B	0.755	CD4
3b	Caleb Durbin	3	0	0	0		RN	31 to 32	A	0.747	CD4
CF	Ceddanne Rafaela	3	0	0	0		RN	31 to 33	A	0.724	CD5
SS	Trevor Story	3	0	0	0		RN	26 to 31	A	0.712	CD2
		32	1	5	1

On the codes by the players, RN means righthanded normal batter, SP means switchhing power etc. The Home Run range is the numbers on the 11-88 base 8 random number scale that appears on the dice or fast action cards. The A (very fast base stealer) through E (slow never steals) and finally a CD5 player is potential gold glove level fielder down to CD1 is very poor fielder.