|
“DIARY OF A WINNER”
|
WORLD CHAMPS AGAIN April 15, 1915 ... The Boston Red Sox fought hard over the full afternoon and evened matters with the Philadelphia Athletics beating them by a score of 5 to 3. The game was long and drawn out as the players from both teams were working hard and taking their time. In addition the Philly pitchers were throwing wildly in trying to get the Red Sox hitters to go after bad pitches. Joe Bush, who has done some fine work this spring, was fairly effective but unsteady. He lasted until the score was 2 to 0 against him. Weldon Wyckoff then came into pitch and saw his team take the lead and stayed ahead until the seventh inning, when Olaf Henriksen tied the score on a pass, a sacrifice and a base hit by Heinie Wagner. With the score tied, Carl Mays came in to pitch for the Red Sox and was very strong in holding the home team to one hit in just three innings. He was never in the hole, showing a cool had and had fine control. There was almost a fight when Bill Carrigan tried to block the plate and Stuffy McInnis took exception to the play. The Red Sox baserunning was very poorly done, with stupid base running by Ray Collins, Dick Hoblitzell, Speaker and Wagner. The one by Wagner, showed him running halfway to second when the rightfielder threw the ball into the shortstop and cut Boston out of two runs. The hitting of Lewis and Hoblitzell was a highlight for the Red Sox batters. Everett Scott played a superb game at shortstop, with two difficult chances turned it. One was a running, one-handed stop, with two men out and men taking off for home. The last play pf the game was one where the ball went over second, he stopped it, and got the runner at first. The Athletics were at first stymied by Ray Collins, the Boston starter. His curves and shoots were very effective for four innings, but they found him for hits in the fifth and sixth, when he showed very little speed and had nothing on the ball that fooled anyone. In the second inning Dick Hoblitzell dropped a single and left-field and went to third on a wild pitch, but he was caught trying for home with no chance of getting there. Larry Gardner opened the third with a sharp single and Carrigan sacrificed him to second. After Ray Collins walked, Harry Hooper singled to right to score Gardner with the first run of the game. With one out in the fourth inning, Lewis singled and Hoblitzell slashed a double to left. Gardner walked to fill the bases and Carrigan worked a pass that forced Lewis home with the second Boston run. Philly got one run back in the fifth inning on McInnis' single and Amos Strunk's line drive over Hooper's head for two bases, to cut the score to 2 to 1. The Athletics took the lead in the sixth when Eddie Murphy singled to right and was sacrificed to second. Rube Oldring lined one off the left-field fence for two bases that scored him to tie up the game. McInnis then lined a single to center to put the Athletics ahead. Back came the Red Sox in the seventh inning, when Henriksen, batting for Collins, got a free pass. Hooper sacrificed him to second and Wagner singled to right, and then got thrown out trying to stretch it to two bases. However on the play, Henriksen was able to come across to once again tie up the game. After Speaker drew a walk, Lewis sent him to third with a base hit. Hoblitzell hit a deep fly ball to centerfield that would have allowed Speaker to score had Wagner not made a bad judgment on the base paths. It was then up to the Red Sox to get a run and a came across in the ninth-inning with two men out. Speaker drew a pass and went to third on a base hit by Lewis. He scored what proved to be the winning run when the throw by the catcher to get Lewis at second, went wild into centerfield. Hoblitzell then singled to score Lewis and the Athletics were done for, with Mays pitching very well Hal Janvrin was out on the coaching lines and should be back playing tomorrow. It is likely that Frank Baker will return to the Athletics and be in the lineup when they play at Fenway Park. The Red Sox leave here Saturday morning for Washington, and it is very likely that Dutch Leonard will be able to play. |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
 |
 |