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Back and forth with the Orioles
July 19, 1969 ...
Dalton Jones hit a baseball toward the flag in center field at Fenway
Park. He was playing third-base in place of George Scott, and broke a
2 to 2 tie with the first-place Baltimore Orioles in the seventh
inning. His double to dead center scored two runs with the Red Sox
beating Baltimore, 5 to 3. The Red Sox had two men on base in the
eighth-inning, with Jones facing Tom Phoebus. Jones, who came to the team late
in the afternoon after his army commitment at Fort Meade, hit his double to the
foot of the flagpole.
The winner for the Red Sox was Sonny Siebert who had given up two runs, both
on home runs to Frank Robinson in the first inning and Paul Blair in the sixth
inning. The other Baltimore run was a home run by Don Buford in the eighth
inning against Lee Stange, who relieved Siebert. In the ninth-inning, with
Brooks Robinson on third after a double and a wild pitch by Stange, Sparky Lyle
was brought into pitch to Andy Etchebarren, who grounded out to end the game.
The Sox tied the game at 1 to 1 in the second inning, and Siebert brought it
home himself with a hard single to right. Rico Petrocelli had walked with one
out and moved to second on a single by Joe Lahoud. Siebert brought Rico in
easily when he hit an outside fastball hard to right-field.
In the sixth inning Paul Blair was looking for one of Siebert's fastballs and
got one he liked, sending the ball flying into the net in left-center, putting
the Orioles ahead. But Carl Yastrzemski hit a 2-2 pitch off Phoebus into the
grandstand in right for his 29th home run and tying up the game, 2 to 2.
In the seventh inning, Tom Satriano walked as did Mike Andrews. With Dave
McNally warming up in the bullpen, Dalton Jones hit his drive toward the flag in
center, putting the Sox ahead 4 to 2. McNally finally came in and got
Yastrzemski with three straight strikes.
Don Buford closed the gap with one out in the eighth, making the score 4 to
3. But Rico countered that in the bottom of the inning with his home run,
putting the Sox again up by two runs, 5 to 3. |
