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Jackie Bradley Jr. posts historic batting line in Red Sox blowout victory

The Boston Red Sox offense continued to sizzle on Saturday afternoon as they absolutely destroyed Felix Hernandez and the Seattle Mariners 22-10 at Fenway Park.

Yes, you read that correctly. Boston scored 22 runs in a game started by Felix Hernandez. In fact, 10 of those runs came directly off Hernandez in his 2 1/3 innings. That marked the worst start in his potential Hall of Fame worthy career.

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In total, Boston pounded out a season-high 26 hits. This comes less than 24 hours after they scored 15 runs on 21 hits against Seattle. Obviously, the Red Sox have had a lot on their minds after learning that manager John Farrell was diagnosed with stage one Lymphoma, yet they've somehow managed to turn that into a laser sharp focus we haven't seen from their offense all season long.

In Saturday's win, SIX different Red Sox recorded at least three hits. Leading the pack was Jackie Bradley Jr., who homered twice and doubled three times, while driving in seven and scoring five runs out of the ninth spot in the batting order.

That's a monstrous batting line, and it earned Bradley a unique place in history.

That's pretty amazing to think about, isn't it?

Here are a couple more tidbits on Bradley's big game.

Bradley made history, and the Red Sox made one fan very happy, winning on Ben Affleck's birthday for the first time since Good Will Hunting came out in 1997. Previously, they were 0-15.

On the Mariners side, the big story is just how awful Hernandez was.

Needless to say, the numbers aren't pretty.

Hernandez started the game with a 3.11 ERA, but that spiked all the way to 3.65 by the end of his outing. One half-run at this point in the season is significant. The outing also continued a troubling trend for Hernandez. Over his last four outings, he's allowed 23 total runs. That followed a four-start stretch in which he allowed just four total runs.

Here's another interesting (or troubling) angle. Since Hisashi Iwakuma's no-hitter on Wednesday, the Mariners have allowed 37 runs on 47 hits in just TWO games. On Friday, they became the first team to allow 15 or more runs in the first game following a no-hitter since the 1905 Red Sox. On Saturday, things somehow got worse.

This is already a weekend to forget for the Mariners, and there's still one more game to go on Sunday.

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Mark Townsend is a writer for Big League Stew on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at bigleaguestew@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter!