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“DIARY OF A WINNER”
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THE CURSE OF THE BAMBINO, PART 6 ... July 21, 1967 ... Darrell Brandon beat the Cleveland Indians, 6 to 2, at Municipal Stadium for his second complete game of the season. Joe Foy, who has been hot for the second straight year since the All-Star game, stepped into a hanging curveball from Luis Tiant in the third inning and knocked it over the fence in left field with two men on. They gave him 14 hits in 36 times at bat since the All-Star game, with nine runs batted in and his 14th home run of the year, one behind his total of last year. Brandon stuck to his fastball and slider, giving up eight hits and the two runs off him came in the eighth-inning when Leon Wagner hit a home run over the right-field fence, following a triple by Lee Maye. Manager Dick Williams had taken out Tony Conigliaro, Carl Yastrzemski, George Scott, Mike Andrews and Mike Ryan. Norm Siebern replaced George Scott at first base, his first appearance for the Red Sox. In the second inning, Tony Conigliaro blooped a fly to center. Lee Maye came running in slowly and let the ball drop in front of him, allowing Tony to go for two bases. George Scott hit another blooper to right-field and Rocky Colavito half ran in, letting the ball landed in front of him also. That allowed Conigliaro to score the first run of the game. Ryan opened up the third inning and Brandon dropped down a perfect sacrifice bunt, to move him over. Mike Andrews hit a little soft fly to left-field and Leon Wagner also let that ball drop in front of him without much effort, for a single. That got the fans upset and they let their Cleveland ballplayers hear it. Tiant decided on a curveball when he faced Foy to start things off in the next inning. The ball got high and slightly inside, and Foy knocked it to deep center field. This time there was no chance for the outfielders to show how sloppy they could play, as Wagner looked at it going over the wall. Brandon played his part in the last run scored by the Sox, with a double off the wall in left field to start the seventh inning. Andrews sacrificed him over and former Red Sox lefty, Eddie Connolly, let go with a wild pitch that allowed Brandon to score. On the mound, Brandon strongest inning was the seventh, when he struck out the side and had a couple of nice catches made for him by the Yastrzemski. Yaz went all the way to the wall to get Don Demeter's long pinch-hit fly ball in the third, and was at the wall again in the sixth to pull down a long fly from the bat of Rocky Colavito. The victory moved the Red Sox into undisputed possession of second place. |
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