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MICKEY HARRIS |
THE CURSE OF THE BAMBINO, PART 2 ...
A POWERFUL RED SOX TEAM FAILS
IN THE WORLD SERIES ...
Mickey Harris beats the Yankees single-handed
September 24, 1946 ... Mickey Harris single-handedly beat the New York Yankees at Fenway Park by a score of 5 to 4. While scattering nine hits, two of which were terrific home runs by Johnny Lindell, Harris chalked up his
17th win of the season. But it was Harris' bat which made possible three Red Sox runs, the last and winning run being scored by Mickey himself.
It is too late for him to reach the 20 game winner's circle, but from the way he has pitched of late, is a pity that he could not have been playing against the Yankees more often. Since the first week in August, Mickey has made nine starts. He has won three of those games, all against the
Yankees.
The game was one of those back and forth sessions with the pennant tension removed. If it had been a deciding contest, it would've gone down as one of the greatest games of the year. Harris clipped Yankee rookie Al Lyons for three hits.
Wally Moses' double and DiMaggio's single, gave the Sox run in the first inning. They added another in the second, on a pass to Eddie Pellagrini, another Harris single, and successive walks to Moses and Pesky.
Yankees got one back in the third and one back in the fourth, on Johnny Lindell's first home run of the game, to tie it at 2-2. In the bottom of the fourth, after Lyons erased Pellagrini, he walked Hal Wagner, who took third on Mickey's single to left, and scored as Moses flied out to Joe
DiMaggio, making it 3-2.
The Yankees tied it up again in the fifth and the Sox came back in their half of the inning. Dominic opened with a single and Ted Williams sliced a double down the left-field line, allowing Dom sprint all the way home from first base to give the Red Sox a 4-3 lead.
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TED WILLIAMS &
EDDIE PELLAGRINI |
Again, the Yankees came back in the sixth inning to tie it up at 4-4, on Lindell's second homer of the game. This one cleared the fence in left by about 25 feet, toward left center.
Entering the home half of the eighth-inning, with one out, Harris made his third hit, a single to center. He raced to third as George Metkovich doubled down the line. After Johnny Pesky was walked intentionally, Dom DiMaggio flied out to Johnny Lindell in right field and Harris sailed home
with the winning run.
The Red Sox edge over the Yankees this year is 13 to 8. The 102nd win now leaves the 1946 club, three wins away from the best all time Red Sox record.
Eddie Pellagrini's Roxbury-Dorchester friends presented the Sox infielder with a new Pontiac sedan. Gov. Tobin made the presentation after being introduced by committee chairman Hank Garrity of Dorchester and St. Anselm's College. The governor first congratulated the Red Sox on their
championship season and then turned the keys of the new car over to Eddie. |
