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BOBBY DOERR |
THE CURSE OF THE BAMBINO, PART 2 ...
A POWERFUL RED SOX TEAM FAILS
IN THE WORLD SERIES ...
Errors beat the Red Sox in doubleheader split
June 16, 1946 ... The reeling Red Sox won a ball game today, but lost the series with the Chicago White Sox when they split a doubleheader,
winning the first game 6 to 1 and losing the second game 7 to 4. Along the way they lost Don DiMaggio and Bill Butland for an indefinite length of time with a recurrence of the injuries they suffered in the spring. Tex Hughson tossed a neat six hitter in the opener and Jim Bagby, on an easy force play at third, threw the ball
wild and started the White Sox on their way to three runs, that dissolved a 4 to 4 deadlock in the eighth inning of game number two.
Bobby Doerr had the big bat by belting a two run homer in each game, making it three home runs in the last two days and 10 for the season. He also knocked in another run with an infield out to boosting his league-leading RBI total up to 55.
Bill Butland, whose sore shoulder ended up sending him to Miami for treatment in April, apparently had it pop up again and forced Charlie Wagner, who had been warming up at the same time start the second game. The thigh muscle which Dom had pulled in Alabama, kicked up again and forced him
out of the game as he was running between second and third following his 440 foot blast to the centerfield wall. He stumbled into third base and ended up being thrown out and then taken out of the game.
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TEX HUGHSON |
Hughson came close to a masterpiece in his first start since Memorial Day. All the White Sox hits were singles, as Tex made only 95 pitches and got behind on just one batter of the 35 he faced. He lost a shutout in the fourth inning on a bloop single by Don Kolloway.
Up 1-0 in the fourth inning, Ted Williams drew a walk with one out and Bobby Doerr singled to left, but Whitey Platt let the ball get by him and it rolled to the fence. Williams scored, Doerr darted to second base, and was brought in on Rudy York's single. That made it 3-0.
In the eighth-inning Johnny Pesky doubled and Ted was handed his 83rd pass of the season. Pesky got thrown out trying to steal third, which robbed Doerr of another RBI, when he hit a home run into the lower left field seats to score Ted Williams and make the score 6 to 1.
For the third time in the series and the fifth this season, the Red Sox blew the lead, not once, but twice in the nightcap. In the eighth-inning, with the score tied at 4 to 4, White Sox pitcher Earl Caldwell singled to open the inning and Ralph Hodgin was walked on four straight balls.
Thurman Tucker bunted to move the runners along, and Jim Bagby quickly came off the mound and grabbed the ball in plenty of time to force the runner at third-base, but he half stumbled and fired past the bag to left field. By the time the inning was over the White Sox scored three runs and
had a 7 to 4 lead. |
