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Morning sports update: Here are clips from the Patriots’ Super Bowl documentary, ‘Do Your Job Part III’

Jason McCourty talked about his touchdown-saving Super Bowl play, while Bill Belichick and Josh McDaniels explained how they used Julian Edelman against the Rams' secondary.

Jason McCourty makes a touchdown-saving pass breakup against Brandin Cooks in Super Bowl LIII.

By Hayden Bird

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The Red Sox lost to the Twins on Tuesday night, 6-5. It was another tough outing for Rick Porcello, who allowed all six runs. Boston continues at Fenway Park against Minnesota on Wednesday at 7:10 p.m.

The “Do You Job” clips: Before the latest “Do Your Job” NFL Films documentary on the Super Bowl-winning Patriots premieres tonight at 8 p.m. EST on NFL Network, here’s a look at the clips that have been released:

https://twitter.com/nflnetwork/status/1168961989412081665

Trivia: In the Bill Belichick era, one Patriots player has recorded a double-digit total of interceptions in a single season. Who was that player?

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(Answer at the bottom).

Hint: He did it in 2006.

More from Boston.com:

Another upcoming documentary for Patriots fans

: HBO is releasing a documentary called “Belichick and Saban: The Art of Coaching” in December. Columnist Chad Finn wrote about the upcoming film, and also spoke to the producer of the latest “Do Your Job” documentary.

Charlie McAvoy and David Pastrnak took in the U.S. Open:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B19-hX5H3-S/?igshid=12tufyekfiasj

Lucky was present, but this was skill:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B19je8onIpW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

On this day: In 1991, Major League Baseball’s committee for statistical accuracy, led by Commissioner Fay Vincent, struck down one of sports’s most polarizing punctuations when they decreed that the asterisk accompanying Roger Maris’s 1961 single season home run record would be eliminated.

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This left Maris and his staggering total of 61 home runs as the unencumbered MLB record, once and for all eclipsing Babe Ruth’s previous mark of 60.

The reason why Maris’s total was originally affixed to an asterisk was the result of a previous commissioner’s decree. As Maris was busily smashing home runs in ’61, then-commissioner Ford Frick made an infamous declaration.

“If the player does not hit more than 60 until after the club has played 154 games,” said Frick, “there would have to be some distinctive mark in the record books to show that Babe Ruth’s record was set under a 154-game schedule and the total of more than 60 was compiled while a 162-game schedule was in effect.”

The 162-game schedule had been established for the ’61 season, and Maris hit the record-breaking home run in the final game that year. As a result, it was deemed that an asterisk would be attached to Maris’s total in the record books. It was an unfortunate legacy for Maris.

“For 30 years, Maris was condemned to asterisk status,” wrote columnist Shirley Povich. “It clung to him like a birthmark to Gorbachev, like a scarlet letter to Hester Prynne. It was as if he were unworthy of the record set by his bat. Baseball would not allow it — a pox on his 61 homers in 1961.”

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And Frick wasn’t exactly a neutral arbiter either. In an earlier job before becoming commissioner, he had been a ghostwriter for a book by Ruth. The unfair asterisk was removed once and for all by Vincent’s commission, allowing the record to finally sit peacefully in place. Of course, it would be broken only a few years later by Mark McGwire, though that particular era raised legitimacy questions of its own.

Daily highlight: A fan made a tremendous catch on Nolan Arenado’s 37th home run of the season.

Trivia answer: Asante Samuel