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“DIARY OF A WINNER”
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WORLD CHAMPS AGAIN May 10, 1915 ... The Red Sox put the game with the Yankees on hold in the third inning and battened down their hatches until the ninth-inning, when both teams scored one run, and as a result, the Red Sox beat the New Yorkers by a 3 to 1 score. It looked however, like Rube Foster, would pitch a shutout right up until the final inning. But the Yankees managed to squeeze in one lonesome run in the ninth and keep from being blanked. The score would indicate that Foster just breezed along to a victory, but that was not the case. There were men on base in nearly every inning and the Boston pitcher got out of more tight holes than most hurlers would care to face. The Yankees had openings and the second, fourth and sixth innings, on which occasions, a single base hit would have brought in at least two runs. But Foster refused to be scored upon, when a hit would mean a run. The Red Sox could not do much against Marty McHale, but did enough to win the game. Harry Hooper drew a pass in the first inning and scored on Tris Speaker's three base hit, to put the Red Sox in the lead. In the third inning, Duffy Lewis' base hit, followed by Everett Scott's double, gave them their second run. Mike McNally's infield hit and Pinch Thomas' line drive triple gave the Sox their final run in the ninth-inning. For the Yankees, in the second inning, Wally Pipp opened with a single and reached second when Duffy Lewis juggled the ball, moving over to third on a ground ball out. But Foster threw him out at the plate when Roger Peckinpaugh bounced one back to the mound. In the fourth inning, Pipp and Peck drew passes and moved up on a wild pitch. A pop up from Luke Boone, and a strikeout to Les Nunamaker, got Foster out of another jam. In the sixth inning, after two clean base hits, Peckinpaugh laid down a nice bunt, but Foster was too quick and jumped on the ball to nip the runner at third. With Nunamaker again at the plate, he fouled off eight pitches before grounding out to Scott for the final out. In the eighth-inning, Hugh High doubled and Pipp and Doc Cook were both walked to fill the bases. Peckinpaugh grounded to McNally, who cut off High at the plate and Thomas completed the doubleplay at first. But two men were still on base and Boone grounded out to Scotty at short for the final out. Foster ran out of luck in the ninth however, when he walked Ray Caldwell and Fritz Maisel. High lined a single to left that scored the only run for the New Yorkers. |
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