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“DIARY OF A WINNER”
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FENWAY'S FIRST TEAM June 27, 1912 ... Washington won the final game from the Red Sox at the National Ballpark by a score of 8 to 4. They did so by bunching hits off Charley Hall and Larry Pape, but the game was called in the eighth inning so that the Boston team could catch a train to get back home. The veteran Tom Hughes, who seems to have taken on a new lease of life under manager Clarke Griffith, was a stumbling block in the path of the league leaders. Hughes was hit easily, but managed to keep everything hit off him, well scattered. Before the game was called off at 4:30, no matter what the score was, it was a bit unfortunate, as the Speed Boys had crowded in a bunch of clean drives in the eighth-inning and scored a run. Hughes appeared to be tiring and the Red Sox were taking advantage of it. Heavy rain in the morning with the field in less than perfect shape. Just before the game started, a shower soaked the players and it also was dreadfully hot. Duffy Lewis ran knee-deep into the pool of water in the seventh inning to pull down a high fly from Chick Gandil. Charley Hall was the victim of some poor umpiring in the first inning, when Clyde Milan stole home. Hall's pitch to Hick Cady was on the outside of the plate, but the batter, Dixie Walker, plainly blocked Cady from getting to Milan to make a tag. Umpire Evans refused to declare Milan out and this decision, more than anything else, cause the undoing of Hall, who displayed poor control in the second inning and was hit for a triple and three singles in the third, giving Washington a 5 to 0 lead. Steve Yerkes opened up the fourth inning with a single. Tris Speaker followed with a double, but Duffy Lewis struck out. Larry Gardner came through with a clean base hit that knocked in two runs and then went to second himself on a wild pitch. After Hugh Bradley struck out, Heinie Wagner singled in Gardner, making the score 5 to 3. Larry Pape was in the box when Washington's fourth inning opened and he held the home team scoreless was until the seventh. Then three hits and a poor throw by Pape himself, gave the Nats a trio of runs in the seventh inning, making the score at the time 8 to 3. In the top of the eighth-inning, Yerkes got on first with a base hit and after Speaker was thrown out at first, Gardner got another base hit to score Yerkes with the Red Sox fourth run. Bradley singled and Wagner reached on an infield hit to fill the bases, but Cady struck out to end the inning and the game. It was agreed upon to call the game at 4:30 to give the Red Sox a chance to catch the train back to Boston, so the men hustled off the field and caught the train on time. The lucky breaks favored Washington throughout the game. In the Red Sox opening inning, with Henriksen on second base and only one out, he attempted to go to third on Speaker's fly ball to Milan. The throw was in like a rifle shot and Henriksen was out by three feet. Milan put up an excellent game for Washington, making two doubles and a pair of singles in four times at bat, driving in all of the Washington runs, as well as stealing home. |
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