Red Sox First half Recap Day Two: Top 10 performances

Yesterday we took a look at the best wins and worst losses of the season so far, today we will take a look at the top 10 individual game performances so far this season.

10. May 1st: Mike Napoli hits two home runs and a double and collects 4 RBIs in a 10-1 win over the Blue Jays

9. June 10th: Jarrod Saltalamacchia goes 4-7, and collects four RBIS, including a clutch RBI single in the 4th inning to put the Red Sox ahead of the Rays in a 10-8 win.

8. July 11th: After Ryan Dempter gives up 7 runs in 3 innings, Steven Wright takes over and throws 6 innings of scoreless relief, allowing the Red Sox to come back from a large deficit to win 8-7 in 10 innings. Maybe the most surprising performance of the season as it was Steven Wrights second major league appearances, and his first was a disaster, allowing 7 runs in less than 4 innings. The performance earned Wright his first major league win.

7. May 10th: Jon Lester throws a complete game one hit shutout in a 5-0 win over the Blue Jays. A one hitter probably deserves to be higher, but Lester kind of got lucky in this one with outstanding defense. He only struckout five out of 27 outs, dampening the dominance.

6. April 26th: David Ross goes 4-4, including two home runs in a 7-3 win over the Astros

5. May 18th: David Ortiz hits two homes runs, collects 6 RBIS, adds a 3rd hit in 12-5 win over the Twins.

4. May 6th: Stephen Drew gets four hits, 3 RBI, including a home run and a walk off double in 6-5 win over the Twins.

3. April 14th: Clay Buchholz throws 8 innings, allowing 2 hits and no runs, strikes out 11 in 5-0 win over the Rays.

2. June 18th: Felix Doubront throws eight dominant innings against the Rays, in just 93 pitches including at one point retiring 19 batters in a row in 3-1 win over Rays.

1. April 7th: A bittersweet game to look back on to say the least. Will Middlebrooks broke onto the scene as a rookie phenom last year, hitting .288 clubbing 18 homers in less than half a season. Many expected .300 and 30+ homers from the sophomore this year. In just the 6th game of the season, Middlebrook put on an absolute show, hitting three home runs, adding a double and coming withing 2 feet of a fourth home run on a long fly ball out. Unfortunately, after this game the expectations may have been to high on the kid, who has strugged mightily ever since. From this game through june 23rd, Middlebrooks hit just .187, with just four home runs. Finally on June 24th Middlebrooks was demoted to the minor leagues in an attempt for him to refocus himself and rediscover himself. Hopefully soon he will be back and return to the Home run masher we saw earlier.