|
"A YEAR WITH TWO NO-HITTERS"
...
Bob Tillman belts a walk-off home run in the 11th
June 10, 1962
... Fenway Park's largest crowd of the season
saw Bob Tillman give the Red Sox a split with the Indians in a
doubleheader. His 11th inning home run won the opening game by a
score of 4 to 3 for reliever Dick Radatz. In the second game the
Indians blasted three home runs off Gene Conley and route to their 9
to 3 victory. Before his game-winning wallop that bounced out of
the nets near the light tower in left-center, Tillman had led off the fifth with
a single and the seventh with a double. Both hits figured in the scoring of the
Sox second and third runs.
Tillman's homer was his ninth of the year and they have all been hit since
May 17th when he became the Red Sox number one catcher. He is tied with Carl
Yastrzemski for the home run leadership on the Sox. Yaz clouted his eighth in
the opening game and his ninth in the second game.
Following three scoreless innings in the opener, Yastrzemski homered into the
screen in left-center. The Sox made it 2 to 0 in the fifth. They load the bases
on singles by Tillman and Caroll Hardy. Monbouquette failed to squeeze a run
home with Tillman getting caught at the plate. Pumpsie Green's sacrifice fly
then scored Hardy.
Tillman doubled to open the seventh inning and had to hold up on third on Ed
Bressoud's single to right. With two outs Green received a walk and then Gary
Geiger received another one that forced Tillman home.
But the Red Sox 3 to 1 lead vanished quickly in the eighth-inning. A double
was followed by a home run from John Romano to tie the game. |
