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FRANK BAUMANN
& JIMMY PIERSALL |
Jimmy Piersall's walk-off
homer and
Ted's grandslam give the Sox a sweep
July 31, 1955 ... Jimmy
Piersall's ninth inning homer off Billy Hoeft carried the Red Sox to
a double victory over the Detroit Tigers, by scores of 8-3 and 3-2.
Ted Williams' mighty bat cracked a grandslam homer in the first game
to give Frank Sullivan his 14th win of the season.
Piersall delighted the fans with his ninth inning, nobody out,
walk-off homer to present rookie pitcher, Frank Baumann with a 3 to 2
win in his first major league game.
The Sox got two runs in the first inning off Hoeft, who walked Billy
Goodman and gave up a single to Billy Klaus that pushed Goodman over
to third. Williams' fly ball to center scored him and Jackie Jensen's
double off the wall in left-center scored Klaus. The Tigers tied the
game with single runs in the third and fourth.
Frank Baumann relieved Ike Delock in the fourth inning of the second
game with runners on first and second. Ho got out of the jam and
shutout the Tigers for the rest of the game. He pitched 5 2/3 inning
of scoreless ball, getting himself into a couple of hot spots, but
weathered the storm like a veteran.
Sullivan, Williams and Klaus ripped Detroit apart in the opener, 8 to
3. After the Tigers got two runs in the first inning, Klaus' sixth
homer got them one run back in the third. Then the Sox broke the game
open with six runs in the fourth inning to clinch the game.
Norm Zauchin opened that inning with a base hit. After Sammy White
flew out, Grady Hatton and Jimmy Piersall both singled to load the
bases. Sullivan then singled past shortstop, Harvey Kuenn's
outstretched glove and scored two of the runners. Goodman popped out
and Klaus walked to load the bases again. Ted then unloaded a bomb
over the Sox bullpen for the slam.
After Charlie Maxwell homered in the eighth for Detroit, Paul Foytack
gave the Sox another run in the bottom of the inning on Goodman's
double and walks to Klaus, Jensen and Zauchin.
The liveliest action of the afternoon happened when Tiger Kuenn
attempted to distract Williams while he was at bat. Kuenn ran
back-and-forth between second and short under the guise of employing
the "shift" in the seventh inning. |
