Just a few notes today from Tuesday’s 6-0 win over the Halos at Fenway:

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* – At 22.39 years old, Ryan Kalish became the youngest Red Sox player to hit a grand slam since Tony Conigliaro hit one on June 3, 1964, at 19.41 years. Here are the youngest Red Sox grand slammers since 1960:

19.41 – Tony Conigliaro (6/3/64)
22.39 – Ryan Kalish (8/17/10)
22.71 – Ellis Burks (5/25/87)
22.86 – Rico Petrocelli (5/8/66)
22.93 – Arquimedez Pozo (7/28/96)
23.35 – Joe Foy (6/26/66)
23.41 – Reggie Smith (8/29/68)

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* – The Red Sox’ first batter of the game has now been retired 14 consecutive times. The last time that a Sox leadoff man reached base in the first inning was back on August 1, when Marco Scutaro singled off Detroit’s Justin Verlander.

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* – Clay Buchholz fell behind 1-0 on 16 batters last night and they went 1-14 with 2 walks. He got ahead 0-1 on just 8 batters and they went 3-8. Two hit the first pitch (0-2). Going into last night, Buchholz had gotten ahead on 46% of batters and they had hit .196. The 40% that he fell behind had hit .246.

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* – The Red Sox tossed a shutout despite allowing double digit baserunners for the first time since last August 30 and just the 11th time since 2000.