List of Boston Red Sox team records

This article is about the statistical records of the Boston Red Sox. For their season-by-season win–loss records, see List of Boston Red Sox seasons.

The Boston Red Sox are a Major League Baseball (MLB) team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They have competed in the American League (AL) since it was founded in 1901, and in the AL East division since it was formed in 1969. Note that before 1908, the team was known as the Boston Americans. The list below documents players (by careers and seasons) and teams (by seasons) that hold particular club records.

Carl Yastrzemski, who played in Major League Baseball for 23 seasons, all with the Boston Red Sox, holds multiple team records.

Individual player records

Note that these records reflect statistics only for a player's tenure with the Red Sox. For example, David Ortiz hit a total of 541 home runs during his MLB career; 483 with the Red Sox and 58 with the Minnesota Twins^[1]—thus, Ted Williams' 521 home runs, all hit with the Red Sox, is the team record. Similarly, the team record for wins with the Red Sox is 192, accomplished both by Roger Clemens and Cy Young, who had major league career win totals of 354 and 511, respectively.

Note that "rate" categories (such as batting average or earned run average) have thresholds (such as a minimum number of at bats or innings pitched) for eligibility.

Key

Italics	Statistic is ranked from low to high
Bold	MLB record

The below tables have been updated with records through the 2020 season.

Batting

Statistic	Career			Single season
	Stat value	Player	Ref.	Stat value	Player	Season	Ref.
Batting average	.344	Ted Williams	[2]	.406	Ted Williams	1941	[3]
On-base percentage	.482[4]	Ted Williams	[5]	.553	Ted Williams	1941	[6]
Slugging percentage	.634	Ted Williams	[7]	.735	Ted Williams	1941	[8]
On-base plus slugging	1.116	Ted Williams		1.287	Ted Williams	1941
Games played	3,308	Carl Yastrzemski	[9]	163	Jim Rice	1978
At bats	11,988	Carl Yastrzemski	[10]	684	Nomar Garciaparra	1997	[11]
Plate appearances	13,992	Carl Yastrzemski		758	Wade Boggs	1985
Runs scored	1,816	Carl Yastrzemski	[12]	150	Ted Williams	1949	[13]
Hits	3,419	Carl Yastrzemski	[14]	240	Wade Boggs	1985	[15]
Total bases	5,539	Carl Yastrzemski	[16]	406	Jim Rice	1978	[17]
Singles	2,262	Carl Yastrzemski		187	Wade Boggs	1985
Doubles	646	Carl Yastrzemski	[18]	67[19]	Earl Webb	1931	[20]
Triples	130	Harry Hooper	[21]	22	Tris Speaker	1913	[22]
Home runs	521	Ted Williams	[23]	54	David Ortiz	2006	[24]
RBIs	1,844	Carl Yastrzemski	[25]	175	Jimmie Foxx	1938	[26]
Walks	2,021	Ted Williams	[27]	162	Ted Williams	1947 1949	[28]
Strikeouts	1,643	Dwight Evans	[29]	187	Mike Napoli	2013	[30]
Stolen bases	300	Harry Hooper	[31]	70	Jacoby Ellsbury	2009	[32]
Runs created	2,393	Ted Williams		183	Jimmie Foxx Ted Williams	1938 1941
Extra-base hits	1,157	Carl Yastrzemski		92	Jimmie Foxx	1938
Times on base	5,539	Carl Yastrzemski	[33]	406	Jim Rice	1949	[34]
Hit by pitch	86	Kevin Youkilis	[35]	35	Don Baylor	1986	[36]
Sacrifice hits	219	Duffy Lewis		54	Jack Barry	1917
Sacrifice flies	105	Carl Yastrzemski		12	Jackie Jensen Jackie Jensen Jimmy Piersall	1955 1959 1956
Intentional walks	243	Ted Williams		33	Ted Williams	1957
Grounded into double plays	323	Carl Yastrzemski		36[37]	Jim Rice	1984
Caught stealing	123	Tris Speaker	[38]	58	Tris Speaker	1912	[39]
Outs made	9,126	Carl Yastrzemski		515	Jim Rice	1984
At bats per strikeout	40.9	Stuffy McInnis		64.9	Stuffy McInnis	1921
At bats per home run	14.4	Manny Ramirez		10.3	David Ortiz	2006

Source:^[40][41]

Additionally, the team record for consecutive games played with at least one hit (hitting streak) is held by Dom DiMaggio at 34 games, set during the 1949 season.^[42][43] His streak began with a single on June 29 and ended when he went 0-for-5 on August 9; during that period, DiMaggio also appeared in a game on July 18 only as a pinch runner, which neither counts for or against the hitting streak.^[44]

Pitching

Statistic	Career			Single season
	Stat value	Player	Ref.	Stat value	Player	Season	Ref.
Wins	192	Roger Clemens Cy Young	[45]	34	Smoky Joe Wood	1912	[46]
Losses	168	Tim Wakefield	[47]	25	Red Ruffing	1928	[48]
Win–loss %	.760 (117–37)	Pedro Martínez	[49]	.923 (12–1)	Clay Buchholz	2013
Saves	219	Jonathan Papelbon	[50]	46	Tom Gordon	1998	[51]
Earned run average (ERA)	1.99	Smoky Joe Wood	[52]	0.96	Dutch Leonard	1914	[53]
Walks plus hits per inning pitched (WHIP)	.970	Chris Sale Cy Young		.737[54]	Pedro Martínez	2000
Strikeouts per nine innings pitched	13.214	Chris Sale		13.500	Chris Sale	2018
Strikeout to walk ratio	6.693	Chris Sale		8.875	Pedro Martínez	2000
Games pitched	637	Bob Stanley	[55]	81	Mike Timlin	2005	[56]
Innings pitched	3,006	Tim Wakefield		384+2⁄3	Cy Young	1902
Strikeouts	2,590	Roger Clemens	[57]	313	Pedro Martínez	1999	[58]
Games started	430	Tim Wakefield	[59]	43	Cy Young	1902
Games finished	377	Bob Stanley		69	Tom Gordon	1998
Complete games	275	Cy Young	[60]	41	Cy Young	1902	[61]
Shutouts	38	Roger Clemens Cy Young	[62]	10	Smoky Joe Wood Cy Young	1912 1904	[63]
Home runs allowed	401	Tim Wakefield		38	Rick Porcello Tim Wakefield	2017 1996
Walks allowed	1,095	Tim Wakefield	[64]	134	Mel Parnell	1949	[65]
Hits allowed	2,931	Tim Wakefield		350	Cy Young	1902
Earned runs allowed	1,480	Tim Wakefield		140	Wes Ferrell	1936
Wild pitches	125	Tim Wakefield		21	Earl Wilson	1963
Hit batsmen	176	Tim Wakefield		20	Bronson Arroyo Howard Ehmke	2004 1923
Batters faced	12,971	Tim Wakefield		1,508	Bill Dinneen	1902
Hits per nine innings pitched	6.754	Chris Sale		5.309	Pedro Martínez	2000
Walks per nine innings pitched	.986	Cy Young		.687	Cy Young	1904
Home runs per nine innings pitched	.064	Rube Foster Ernie Shore Smoky Joe Wood		.030	Sad Sam Jones Cy Young	1921 1908

Source:^[66][67]

Fielding

This is a partial list of the team's single-season fielding records.

Statistic	Qty.	Player	Season	Ref.
Putouts	1586	Stuffy McInnis	1920	[68]
Assists	528	Rick Burleson	1980	[69]
Double plays turned as SS	147	Rick Burleson	1980	[70]

Pos.	Games			Putouts			Assists			Ref.
	Qty.	Player	Season	Qty.	Player	Season	Qty.	Player	Season
C	154	Carlton Fisk	1978	972	Jason Varitek	1999	156	Lou Criger	1903	[71][72][73]
1B	162	Bill Buckner	1985	1586	Stuffy McInnis	1920	184	Bill Buckner	1985	[74][75][76]
2B	160	Dustin Pedroia	2013	443	Bobby Doerr	1950	490	Bobby Doerr	1943	[77][78][79]
3B	161	Wade Boggs	1985	203	Jimmy Collins	1901	368	Wade Boggs	1983	[80][81][82]
SS	157	Xander Bogaerts	2016	320	Johnny Pesky	1942	528	Rick Burleson	1980	[83][84][85]
LF	161	Carl Yastrzemski	1967	339	Jim Rice	1983	30	Duffy Lewis	1910	[86][87][88]
CF	157	Tris Speaker	1914	481	Dom DiMaggio	1948	35	Tris Speaker	1909 1912	[89][90][91]
RF	161	Dwight Evans	1982 1984	366	Mookie Betts	2017	27	Harry Hooper	1911	[92][93][94]
P	81	Mike Timlin	2005	42	Oil Can Boyd	1985	110	Smoky Joe Wood	1912	[95][96][97]

Team records

Note: games behind (GB) applies to non-first-place seasons, while games ahead (GA) applies to first-place seasons. The 2005 Red Sox, who finished in a tie for first in the American League East and were declared the Wild Card team based on head-to-head records, are not included in either category.

Statistic	High		Low
	Stat value	Season	Stat value	Season
Games played	163‡	1961 Red Sox 1978 Red Sox 1985 Red Sox	60	2020 Red Sox
Wins	108	2018 Red Sox	43†	1932 Red Sox
Losses	111	1932 Red Sox	47†	1903 Americans 1912 Red Sox
Ties	6	1907 Americans 1914 Red Sox	0	many times
Win pct.	.691 (105–47)	1912 Red Sox	.279 (43–111)	1932 Red Sox
Games behind (GB)	64	1932 Red Sox	1⁄2	1972 Red Sox
Games ahead (GA)	+14+1⁄2	1903 Americans	+1	1988 Red Sox
Runs scored	1,027	1950 Red Sox	463†	1906 Americans
Runs allowed	922	1925 Red Sox	380†	1918 Red Sox
Batters' average age	31.6	1905 Americans	24.9	1911 Red Sox
Pitchers' average age	33.6	2005 Red Sox	24.4	1916 Red Sox
Home attendance	3,062,699	2009 Red Sox	182,150†	1932 Red Sox

† These categories exclude the 2020 team that played a 60-game season; the team won 24 games and lost 36 games (a .400 winning percentage); scored 292 runs and allowed 351 runs; and played without fans in attendance due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

‡ The 1961 and 1985 teams each had a tie game during their 162-game schedule that was subsequently replayed; the 1978 team played a tie-breaker game at the end of their 162-game schedule.

Source:^[98]

See also

• List of Major League Baseball franchise postseason streaks
• List of Boston Red Sox awards