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“DIARY OF A WINNER”
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FENWAY'S FIRST TEAM May 15, 1912 ... The Red Sox made it four straight from the St. Louis Browns by winning today 2 to 1 at Fenway Park. It was a game of light hitting as Joe Wood and Barney Pelty were at their best. The finish to the game was as impressive as any seen at the new ballpark. The teams played neck and neck for eight innings, with one run scored for each team. Then in the ninth-inning, the Speed Boys went after the one run necessary to win the game and they succeeded. Duffy Lewis and Larry Gardner had gone out on long fly balls to the outfield, when Hugh Bradley came up and banged the ball up against the left-field wall. It looked for a few seconds like he might clear the fence again, but it hit high on the wall for a double. Finally Heinie Wagner smashed the ball over the head of the left fielder, against the incline, and Bradley came across with the walkoff winning run. It was a great finish to a closely contested game, which was won at the very end to the delight of the crowd. The Red Sox scored one run in the first inning on Harry Hooper's base hit, his stolen base and Tris Speaker's double. The Browns scored their run in the sixth on a single by Ed Hallinan, a pass, and then Jimmy Austin's base hit to tie up the game at 1 to 1, where it stayed until the bottom of the ninth-inning. Wood pitched a masterly game and also turned in a fine performance fielding his position, making five putouts and five assists. The only error of the game was made by Wood himself, and it was wholly excusable. He muffed a throw from Wagner in the sixth, that if he caught, would've meant a shutout. With a man on first, Jim Stephens hit a fast grounder to Hugh Bradley at first, who threw it over to Wagner at second for the force out and Wagner threw it back to Wood, who was covering first base in trying to make the double-play. But Joe muffed the ball and the runner at second later scored on a base hit. Wood was always on the mark, passing only one man, while Pelty allowed four men a free pass to first. The Browns put up a great game in the field and made no errors and fought to the last ditch, while the Red Sox played confident of the final result behind the pitching of their ace. |
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