CLEVELAND -- Mitch Moreland huddled over his phone with new teammate Chris Owings and rattled off a bunch of numbers over 100 in disbelief. The target of his research? Rafael Devers.
The 22-year-old continues to amaze in a breakout season that he took to new heights on Tuesday night by becoming the first player in history to go 6-for-6 with four doubles. The Red Sox needed every last hit to outlast the Indians by a score of 7-6 in 10 innings, and when it was over, Moreland went scurrying to the internet.
"I just looked up exit velos on all of them, too, because I felt like he didn't miss a barrel," he said. "Maybe the ground ball up the middle that got through. That was unreal watching that. I told him, we're going to sit down and he's going to tell me game plans for the rest of the year. Just for the rest of the month, six would be good. He's special. It's fun to watch."
The exit velocities on Devers' six hits indeed ranged from a low of 90.3 mph on a hustle double to a 110.4 mph missile in the 10th off Nick Wittgren. The other four hits each topped 100 mph.
Devers is the first Red Sox player since Brock Holt (2014), to have a four-double game. Only four other Sox have tallied six hits in a game: Jimmy Piersall (1953), Pete Runnels (1960), Jerry Remy (1981), and Nomar Garciaparra (2003).
This isn't the first time Devers has done something historic this season. Last week, he became the first Sox player age 22 or younger to hit at least 23 home runs in a season since 1966. In July, he became the youngest since the legendary Ted Williams to rack up 30 RBI in a single month.
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"Historic. Amazing," said manager Alex Cora. "For a guy that in the first at-bat he was swinging at breaking balls down and bouncing and he was all upset at himself. To put a night like that, amazing, amazing."
For his part, Devers downplayed his accomplishment.
"I felt good," he said. "I'm always confident every single game, obviously there's some days I'm a little more confident and I have bad games, so I just try to go out there and do my job."
His night involved a handful of adventures in addition to all the hits. He committed a costly error that led to a pair of unearned runs against starter Chris Sale, he was thrown out at the plate following a lengthy rundown, he was caught stealing, and he was also erased at third after straying out of the baseline on a tag play.
"He's probably going to talk about what happened on that defensive play," Cora said. "Probably he's not going to sleep because of that, because he takes pride in that, and he feels like he put us in a bad spot, but as Chris told him, you're a big part of what we're doing here, what we're trying to accomplish, you've been carrying this team for a long, long time, so pick your head up and keep playing."
Devers is now hitting .325 with 24 homers, 93 RBI, and a .947 OPS. His 279 total bases lead the American League.
"Everybody knew what he could do," Moreland said. "He's been able to swing it from Day 1. Just seeing him develop and mature as a player, he's fun to watch."
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