Editing Boston Red Sox (section)

=== Notable records and achievements ===
{{main|List of Boston Red Sox team records}}
*[[David Ortiz]] set the franchise record for home runs in a season with 54 in 2006, surpassing Jimmie Foxx's record of 50 home runs set in 1938.<ref>{{cite web |title=Boston Red Sox Top 10 Single-Season Batting Leaders |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/leaders_bat_season.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170413202930/http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/leaders_bat_season.shtml |archive-date=April 13, 2017 |access-date=July 14, 2021 |website=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref>
*On April 22, 2007, [[Manny Ramirez|Manny Ramírez]], [[J. D. Drew]], [[Mike Lowell]], and [[Jason Varitek]] hit four consecutive home runs in the 3rd inning off 10 pitches from [[Chase Wright (baseball)|Chase Wright]] of the New York Yankees. This was the fifth time in Major League history and the first time in Red Sox history this feat has occurred. Notable is that J. D. Drew had previously contributed to a four consecutive home run sequence on September 18, 2006 (coincidentally also the second batter in the sequence) while with the [[2006 Los Angeles Dodgers season|Los Angeles Dodgers]]. Additionally, then-Red Sox manager Terry Francona's father, [[Tito Francona]], also was a part of such a four consecutive home run sequence for the [[1963 Cleveland Indians season|Cleveland Indians]] in 1963.<ref>{{cite web |title=Baseball Teams and Baseball Team Encyclopedias — |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/ |access-date=October 31, 2013 |website=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref>
*On September 22, 2007, with a victory over the [[2007 Tampa Bay Devil Rays season|Tampa Bay Devil Rays]], the Red Sox clinched a spot in the postseason for the fourth time in five years, the first time in club history this has happened. Also, with this postseason berth, manager [[Terry Francona]] became the first manager in team history to lead the club to three playoff appearances.
* In 2016, David Ortiz set all-time records for most home runs<ref>{{cite news |last=Lauber |first=Scott |date=September 21, 2016 |title=David Ortiz breaks Dave Kingman's final-season HR record with 36th |work=ESPN |url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/17599694/david-ortiz-breaks-dave-kingman-final-season-hr-record-36th |access-date=October 2, 2016}}</ref> and runs batted in<ref>{{cite news |date=September 23, 2016 |title=Ortiz sets mark for most RBIs in final season |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/ortiz-sets-mark-for-most-rbis-in-final-season/2016/09/23/bb0042be-81f2-11e6-9578-558cc125c7ba_story.html |url-status=dead |access-date=October 2, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012170823/https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/ortiz-sets-mark-for-most-rbis-in-final-season/2016/09/23/bb0042be-81f2-11e6-9578-558cc125c7ba_story.html |archive-date=October 12, 2016}}</ref> in a player's final MLB season. Ortiz finished the season with 38 homers, which surpassed [[Dave Kingman]]'s 35 in 1986, and 127 runs batted in, which surpassed [[Shoeless Joe Jackson]]'s 123 in 1920.
*The Red Sox set a team record for wins in a regular season with 108 in 2018, surpassing the 106-year-old record of 105 wins set in 1912. Including playoffs, the Red Sox won a total of 119 games, the third most total wins in an MLB season.<ref name="n592">{{cite web | last=Castrovince | first=Anthony | title=Red Sox win 2018 World Series title | website=MLB.com | date=2018-10-29 | url=https://www.mlb.com/news/red-sox-win-2018-world-series-title-c299876586 | access-date=2024-09-30}}</ref>
*With their victory in the [[2018 World Series]], the Red Sox became the first team to win four [[List of World Series champions|World Series championships]] in the twenty-first century. They also achieved this with their third ([[2013 World Series|2013]]) and second ([[2007 World Series|2007]]) championships in the century respectively, after first winning in [[2004 World Series|2004]].

==== No-hitters ====
{{Main|List of Boston Red Sox no-hitters}}
[[File:Jon Lester (51006206188) (cropped).jpg|thumb|185x185px|[[Jon Lester]] threw the most recent no-hitter for the Red Sox, in 2008.]]
There have been 18 [[no-hitter]]s thrown in Red Sox history, most recently by [[Jon Lester]] on May 19, 2008, against the [[2008 Kansas City Royals season|Kansas City Royals]]. The franchise's first no-hitter is also the only [[Perfect game (baseball)|perfect game]] in franchise history so far, thrown by [[Cy Young]] on May 5, 1904, against the [[1904 Philadelphia Athletics season|Philadelphia Athletics]].

The first Red Sox rookie to throw a no-hitter was Clay Buchholz, doing so against the Baltimore Orioles on September 1, 2007, in his second Major League start.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Buchholz overshadows Kennedy |url=http://www.espn.com//insider.espn.com/espn/blog/index/_/name/Neyer_Rob/id/3001530 |website=ESPN}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

==== Hitting for the cycle ====
{{See also|List of Major League Baseball players to hit for the cycle}}
Red Sox batters have [[Hitting for the cycle|hit for the cycle]] 23 times in franchise history, tied for second most (with the [[San Francisco Giants]]) for all franchises behind the [[Pittsburgh Pirates]], who have hit 24. On October 8, 2018, [[Brock Holt]] became the first player in MLB history to hit for the cycle in the postseason, doing so in a 16–1 win over the New York Yankees in [[2018 American League Division Series#Game 3, October 8|Game 3 of the 2018 American League Division Series]].
[[File:Brock Holt batting in game against Yankees 09-27-16 (3).jpeg|thumb|205x205px|[[Brock Holt]] hit for the cycle twice for the Red Sox, including the first in Postseason history.]]
The following is a list of Boston Red Sox players who have hit for the cycle:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cycles |url=https://www.retrosheet.org/cycles.htm |access-date=December 28, 2023 |website=www.retrosheet.org}}</ref>

# [[Buck Freeman]] — June 21, 1903
# [[Patsy Dougherty]] — July 29, 1903
# [[Tris Speaker]] — June 9, 1912
# [[Roy Carlyle]] — July 21, 1925
# [[Moose Solters]] — August 19, 1934
# [[Joe Cronin]] — August 2, 1940 (Cronin's second career cycle, he first hit one for the [[1929 Washington Senators season|Washington Senators]] in 1929)
# [[Leon Culberson]] — July 3, 1943 ([[Hitting for the cycle#Natural cycles|natural cycle]])
# [[Bobby Doerr]] — May 17, 1944
# [[Bob Johnson (outfielder)|Bob Johnson]] — July 6, 1944
# [[Ted Williams]] — July 21, 1946
# [[Bobby Doerr]] <small>(2)</small> — May 13, 1947
# [[Lou Clinton]] — July 13, 1962
# [[Carl Yastrzemski]] — May 14, 1965
# [[Bob Watson]] — September 15, 1979 ([[Hitting for the cycle#Natural cycles|natural cycle]]; Watson's second career cycle, he first hit one for the [[1977 Houston Astros season|Houston Astros]] in 1977)
# [[Fred Lynn]] — May 13, 1980
# [[Dwight Evans (baseball)|Dwight Evans]] — June 28, 1984
# [[Rich Gedman]] — September 18, 1985
# [[Mike Greenwell]] — September 14, 1988
# [[Scott Cooper (baseball)|Scott Cooper]] — April 12, 1994
# [[John Valentin]] — June 6, 1996
# [[Brock Holt]] — June 16, 2015
# [[Mookie Betts]] — August 9, 2018
# [[Brock Holt]] <small>(2)</small> — October 8, 2018 ([[2018 American League Division Series#Game 3, October 8|Game 3 of the American League Division Series]], first cycle in [[Major League Baseball postseason|MLB Postseason]] history)