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FENWAY PARK |
FENWAY'S FIRST TEAM
The Red Sox celebrate
with a double win
August 14, 1912
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More than 18,000 fans were at Fenway Park today to give the Speed Boys a
hearty welcome home and saw them win a doubleheader from the St. Louis
Browns. The opener went to Boston by a score of 8 to 2 with the each team
using two pitchers.
Buck O'Brien started for Boston and gave way to Charlie Hall after the second
inning. Not a visitor reached third base in the seven innings that Hall worked.
O'Brien was rather wild and was hit easily in the two innings that he worked.
Pete Compton hit one to the centerfield fence in the second inning for a triple
and scored on a single by Bobby Wallace. After Paul Krichell popped out to Jake
Stahl, O'Brien gave up a walk and Bert Shotton doubled Wallace home to give St.
Louis a 2 to 0 start.
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CHARLIE HALL |
George Baumgardner, a very clever youngster, was saved for Boston by St.
Louis, and for three innings he looked like $1 million. But in the fourth inning
the Sox got to him when Tris Speaker singled, Duffy Lewis was walked, and Larry
Gardner hit a fly ball out to right-field that Gus Williams lost in the sun and
went for three bases, scoring two runs. With Jake Stahl at bat, Baumgardner
became so worked up because umpire O'Brien failed to call a strike on the
batter, that he threw down his glove and walked off the field. The game was
delayed for 10 minutes before the St. Louis pitcher could be induced to resume
the game. When he did, Stahl was kind enough to strike out, but then Heinie
Wagner banged the ball against the left-field wall for two bases and scored on a
fumble by Bobby Wallace.
Buddy Napier finished the game for St. Louis in good form, although the Red
Sox scored two runs additionally in the eighth on Stahl single, a base hit by
Heinie Wagner, a pass and a single by Charley Hall. Thus what looked like a
tough task for the Sox turned out a one-sided affair. The Sox put up perfect
fielding and Speaker made two great catches after a long runs out toward the
flagpole.
It was Joe Wood in the second game, who was not content with just great
pitching, but his fielding and hitting also headlined the contest. The nearest
thing that St. Louis came to scoring happened in the eighth inning, when with
the bases full, Del Pratt hit one to Wood, who played the ball to hick Cady at
the plate for a force out, and then Cady relayed the ball to Stahl to complete a
double-play.
In the second game the Red Sox once more put up a perfect fielding game,
while the St. Louis defense broke down, allowing the home team to roll out
another eight runs. Mack Allison pitched the first three innings and gave up
five runs, while Babe Adams worked the last four allowing three runs. |
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