Christian Arroyo and Trevor Story homer as Red Sox win 8-4 on Franchy Cordero's walk-off grand slam

Franchy Cordero immediately after hitting his game-winning walk-off grand slam home run for the Boston Red Sox. (Photo from MLB.com Video: https://www.mlb.com/gameday/mariners-vs-red-sox/2022/05/22/663277#game_state=final,game_tab=videos,game=663277)

Franchy Cordero hit a walk-off grand-slam home run to right field in the bottom of the tenth inning as the Boston Red Sox defeated the Seattle Mariners 8-4 on Sunday afternoon.

Cordero's home run was his first of the regular season.

The moment for Cordero almost did not happen on Sunday as Christian Vazquez almost scored the game winning run earlier in the bottom of the tenth inning, which would have made the final score Boston 5 Seattle 4, but he was ruled out at home plate and the call stood after a replay review.

Red Sox starting pitcher Nathan Eovaldi was one out away from picking up just his second win of the regular season.

But Hansel Robles blew his third save of the regular season and Boston lost the previous two games Robles blew a save in.

But fortunately for the Red Sox they did not lose this time.

Trevor Story hit a solo home run to left field in the bottom of the sixth and that gave the Red Sox a 3-2 lead.

That home run would prove to be extremely important as Eugenio Suarez for Seattle hit a solo home run off Robles in the top of the ninth.

If Story did not homer, the Red Sox would have lost 3-2 on Sunday.

Boston lead 1-0 as Christian Arroyo hit a solo home run to left field in the bottom of the second.

Then, Xander Bogaerts hit a sacrifice fly to right fielder Taylor Trammell in the bottom of the third, scoring Kevin Plawecki.

So the Red Sox lead two to zero after three innings.

But the Mariners came back.

In the top of the sixth inning, Adam Frasier then hit a two-run home run to right field just inside the Pesky foul poul, also scoring Taylor Trammell.

In the top of the tenth inning, with the score tied at three, Adam Frasier then singled to center field on a line drive scoring Sam Haggerty from third base.

Seattle 4 Boston 3.

Red Sox relief pitcher Jake Diekman then struck out the next two batters and that ended the top of the tenth.

In the bottom of the tenth, Christian Vazquez lead off the inning with a single by hitting a ground ball to right field, advancing Bobby Dalbec to third base.

Kike Hernandez did the same thing, Dalbec scored and Vazquez moved up 90 feet to second base.

Seattle 4, Boston 4.

Rafael Devers then singled on a ground ball to right field and Vazquez tried to score.

Mariners right fielder Dylan Moore threw the ball to Luis Torrens, the catcher at home plate.

But Vazquez was tagged out at home plate.

It looked like from multiple replay camera angles that Vazquez did indeed score the game's winning run with his foot.

But the home plate umpire Clint Vondrak thought that Torrens tagged Vazquez on the thigh (the upper leg) right before he touched home plate with his foot.

It was a bang-bang play. And it was really close.

If Vazquez would have been ruled safe, the umpire call would have probably been ruled in his favor.

But the initial call before the replay review by the Red Sox was not ruled in Vazquez's (and Boston's) favor.

And then there was the potential controversy that many people are not going to remember in the future that the catcher Torrens may have lost the baseball from inside his glove as he was making the tag.

The replay officials in New York did not think that Torrens lost control of the baseball and Seattle won the challenge.

Vazquez is out.

Devers moved to second base on the play and Kike Hernandez was standing on third base.

The Seattle relief pitcher Andres Munoz then decided to intentionally walk Xander Bogaerts.

Bases loaded. One out.

Then, Trevor Story flied out to right fielder Dylan Moore, which probably was more like a line drive than a fly ball.

There was a brief thought that Moore maybe did not actually catch the ball, but one of the umpires ruled that he did catch it.

Moore lost the baseball after the baseball went into his glove and after he tried to flip the baseball from his glove into his throwing hand without dropping it, but that did not work.

Bases are still loaded. Two outs.

Then, on the third pitch of the at bat, Franchy Cordero smashed an 88.1 mile-per-hour slider into the right-center field seats.

Game over. Red Sox win eight to four.

Jake Diekman got his first win of the regular season and Seattle's Andres Munoz fell to a won-lost record of 1-2 and blew his second save of the regular season.

Nathan Eovaldi almost lost his chance for a win in the top of the seventh inning.

Boston had a 3-2 lead at the time and Seattle had a man on first base (Mike Ford) with two outs.

But Boston's Austin Davis came into the game in relief of Eovaldi and struck out Seattle's Cal Raleigh swinging to end the top half of the seventh inning.

Davis got his second hold of the regular season.

Eovaldi pitched 6 2/3 innings, gave up two runs and two earned runs, allowed four hits (including a home run), walked a batter, and struck out a career-high eleven batters in a single game.

He also recorded his 1,000 career strikeout in the game.

Eovaldi is now ranked 6th on the Red Sox with 1.741 actual wins this regular season (and he would be ranked 5th on the team if you don't count ties as more than one place or spot).

As a result of Eovaldi giving up just two runs (and not a larger percentage of runs in the game on Sunday), Nick Pivetta will now have the most potential losses (4.975 potential losses) this regular season among all starting pitchers on the Boston Red Sox until at least after Eovaldi's next start.

Eovaldi now has 4.833 potential losses this regular season and is currently ranked second in that category on the Red Sox.

That means he would be blamed for 4.833 losses this regular season if the Red Sox actually did lose every single game he gave up runs in.

Eovaldi now has given up 5 runs, earned runs, true runs and very true runs in Boston wins this regular season.

In Boston losses, Eovaldi has given up 20 runs, true runs and very true runs and 17 earned runs this regular season.

During the entire regular season, he has given up 25 runs, true runs and very true runs and 22 earned runs.

Eovaldi now has a 2.76 ERA in Red Sox wins this regular season (ranked 12th) and a 4.10 ERA this regular season (ranked 11th).

His true run average and very true run average is 4.66 (both ranked 12th). So Eovaldi is a worse pitcher than his current ERA says that he is.

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NOTE: Very true run average and run average include all runs scored. So they are not like earned runs. Very true run average is more accurate than true run average because it doesn't blame a pitcher for allowing a baserunner to start on second base in extra innings. True run average blames the pitcher for allowing a baserunner to start on second base to start extra innings. Other than that, very true run average and true run average are more accurate and truthful than earned run average (earned runs) and run average (runs).

MORE NOTES: All statistics in the story above are from after the Sunday, May 22nd, 2022 game and before the Tuesday, May 24th, 2022 game. This story was posted on Sunday, May 22nd, 2022.

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Actual won-lost records in the 2022 regular season for Boston Red Sox pitchers depending on the Boston Red Sox win/loss result for any one specific game

NEW: The "wins" are all games that the Boston Red Sox actually won. The "wins" are percentages of innings pitched for each pitcher. All of the percentages of innings pitched (of games the Red Sox actually won) are then added together to get "wins", which is what you see below. The "losses" can be thought of as the percentage of runs any one pitcher allowed the opposing team to score. These percentages of how many runs a pitcher allows in any one game to score are then added together for every game (and only of the games that the Red Sox actually lost) to get "losses". Pitchers who start any extra inning are blamed for allowing a baserunner to start the inning at second base (and any other additional bases they allow that baserunner to advance) if that baserunner eventually scores. The winning percentage is wins divided by wins plus losses.

Matt Barnes .407 wins and 2.133 losses (.160 win pct.)

Ryan Brasier .481 wins and 2.480 losses (.163 win pct.)

Kutter Crawford .481 wins and .993 losses (.327 win pct.)

Tyler Danish .556 wins and 1.135 losses (.329 win pct.)

Austin Davis .511 wins and .239 losses (.681 win pct.)

Jake Diekman 1.248 wins and .925 losses (.574 win pct.)

Nathan Eovaldi 1.741 wins and 2.876 losses (.377 win pct.)

Rich Hill 1.815 wins and .500 losses (.784 win pct.)

Tanner Houck 1.778 wins and 2.591 losses (.407 win pct.)

Nick Pivetta 1.778 wins and 2.944 losses (.376 win pct.)

Kevin Plawecki .000 wins and .000 losses (Plawecki hasn't given up any runs or partial runs yet, so that means he's perfect. He also has not appeared in a game yet as a pitcher that the Boston Red Sox actually won. 1.000 win pct.)

Hansel Robles 1.167 wins and 1.383 losses (.458 win pct.)

Hirokazu Sawamura .370 wins and 1.106 losses (.251 win pct.)

John Schreiber .704 wins and 0.000 losses (1.000 win pct.)

Matt Strahm 1.000 wins and 0.167 losses (.857 win pct.)

Phillips Valdez 0.000 wins and .828 losses (.000 win pct.)

Michael Wacha 2.926 wins and .333 losses (.898 win pct.)

Garrett Whitlock 2.037 wins and 1.367 losses (.598 win pct.)

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Actual won-lost records in the 2022 regular season for Boston Red Sox pitchers not depending on whether the Boston Red Sox actually win any one specific game or not.

In other words, this tells the complete picture of their entire regular season (the good and the bad) of how many people the pitcher got out (innings pitched) and how many runs the pitcher truthfully gave up (which is more accurate than runs or even earned runs given up). So to make this more easy for people to understand, starting pitchers (or the previous pitcher) don't 100% get blamed for the inherited runner(s) that the reliever(s) (or the next pitcher to pitch) allows to score. The starter (or previous pitcher) will get 25%, 50% or 75% blame for giving up one run instead, for an inherited runner that eventually scores.

Also, a pitcher can get a partial win and a partial loss in the same game. So pitchers that throw more innings pitched are going to get a higher percentage of partial wins and pitchers who give up more runs are going to get a higher percentage of partial losses. So if one pitcher pitches a complete game he will get one win (regardless of the team's win/loss result) and if the pitcher's team actually loses that same game in which he was the only pitcher who pitched for his team, he will also get credit for one loss.

The only time any pitcher cannot take a loss or a partial loss is if the winning team doesn't give up any runs to the team they are playing.

Basically, this is truly giving credit where credit is due among pitchers only.

NEW: The "wins" are percentages of innings pitched for each game for each pitcher. All of the percentages of each game are then added together and the sum total of all percentages for each game are "wins" (whether the Red Sox actually won that specific game or not) and are what you see below. The "losses" can be thought of as the percentage of runs that any one pitcher allowed the opposing team to score for each game. All of the percentages of runs given up for each game are then added together and the sum total of all of those numbers are the "losses" and what you see below. The "losses" presented here are represented as the total number of potential losses that a pitcher could have if the Red Sox actually lost every single game in which a pitcher gave up a run(s). The winning percentage is wins divided by wins plus losses.

VERY FINAL NOTE: To not confuse people, pitchers do get blamed for allowing an opposing baserunner to start any extra inning at second base. When I have presented this detailed information (as you see below) this entire regular season (so far), I have always blamed the pitcher for allowing an opposing baserunner to start any extra inning at second base.

Matt Barnes 1.532 wins and 2.467 losses (.383 win pct.) 13 2/3 innings pitched

Ryan Brasier 1.616 wins and 3.813 losses (.298 win pct.) 14 1/3 innings pitched

Kutter Crawford 1.162 wins and 1.314 losses (.469 win pct.) 10 2/3 innings pitched

Tyler Danish 1.585 wins and 1.135 losses (.583 win pct.) 14 innings pitched

Austin Davis 2.047 wins and .525 losses (.796 win pct.) 18 1/3 innings pitched

Jake Diekman 1.689 wins and 1.449 losses (.538 win pct.) 15 1/3 innings pitched

Nathan Eovaldi 5.394 wins and 4.661 losses (.536 win pct.) 48 1/3 innings pitched

Rich Hill 3.389 wins and 3.167 losses (.517 win pct.) 30 innings pitched

Tanner Houck 3.472 wins and 3.174 losses (.522 win pct.) 30 2/3 innings pitched

Nick Pivetta 4.777 wins and 4.944 losses (.491 win pct.) 42 2/3 innings pitched

Kevin Plawecki .125 wins and .000 losses (Plawecki hasn't given up any runs or partial runs yet, so that means he's perfect. He also has not appeared in a game yet as a pitcher that the Boston Red Sox actually won. 1.000 win pct.) 1 inning pitched

Hansel Robles 1.842 wins and 2.883 losses (.390 win pct.) 17 innings pitched

Hirokazu Sawamura 1.383 wins and 1.231 losses (.529 win pct.) 12 1/3 innings pitched

John Schreiber 1.165 wins and 0.333 losses (.778 win pct.) 10 1/3 innings pitched

Matt Strahm 1.591 wins and 0.792 losses (.668 win pct.) 14 1/3 innings pitched

Phillips Valdez 1.204 wins and 0.828 losses (.593 win pct.) 10 1/3 innings pitched

Michael Wacha 3.468 wins and 2.667 losses (.565 win pct.) 30 2/3 innings pitched

Garrett Whitlock 3.559 wins and 3.617 losses (.496 win pct.) 32 2/3 innings pitched

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Wins, Losses, Holds, Blown Saves and Saves that everybody understands

Matt Barnes 0-3 Blown Saves 1 Saves 2

Ryan Brasier 0-2, Holds 4, Blown Saves 2

Kutter Crawford 1-1