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• The Red Sox entered Friday night's game in Minnesota with an eight-game winning streak. That streak was snapped with a 12-0 loss. The last major-league team to end a winning streak of at least eight games with a double-digit shutout loss was the 1977 Phillies, who won 13 straight and then lost 13-0 at Montreal. The last American League team was the 1948 Red Sox, who (exactly like the 1977 Phillies) won 13 in a row and then lost 13-0 (at Detroit).

• In the Twins-Red Sox game, Johnny Damon led off the top of the first inning with a triple and Lew Ford began the bottom of the first with triple. In only one other major-league game in the last 15 seasons did each team start the first inning with a triple: On April 15, 2002, the Cardinals' Fernando Vina and Diamondbacks' Tony Womack turned that trick at Bank One Ballpark. Friday night marked the first time in 23 years that it happened in an American League game: Larry Herndon (Tigers) and Paul Molitor (Brewers) last did it, on June 11, 1982, at Milwaukee County Stadium.

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