Trivia from the comments section
"Mister Snitch" asked: How do you hit .363, steal 46 bases and finish [FOURTH]in the MVP race? Who finished ahead of Speaker?
The answer (thanks to baseball-reference): Walter Johnson, Joe Jackson and Eddie Collins. Johnson went 36-7 with a 1.14 ERA. Shoeless Joe (six seasons before the Black Sox scandal) led the league with 197 hits at a .373 clip. Collins hit .345 and stole 55 bases.
Some more trivia.
Travis Snider's ground rule double into the Red Sox bullpen plated Rob Barajas and Scott Rolen, giving Snider five RBIs for the game. That ties Snider with Rob Barajas and Matt Stairs for the Jays high this season for RBIs in a single game.
Joe Inglett added a single to left to score Snider and put Toronto up 8-0 through six innings. A.J. Burnett's still dealing, ask Jed Lowrie, who froze up staring at Burnett's two-strike curveball.
Sox manager Terry Francona's moving things around, pushing Lowrie over to third and bringing Alex Cora in to play shortstop, giving George Kottaras his major league debut at catcher, running Jonathan Van Every out to left field for Jason Bay and sending Devern Hansack to the mound for a 1-2-3 inning.
Jays 8, Sox 0
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