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“DIARY OF A WINNER”
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WORLD CHAMPS AGAIN May 28, 1915 ... Duffy Lewis who has won more games for the Red Sox this year than any other player, added another victory to put on his resume, when he drove in Harry Hooper and Heinie Wagner with the winning runs in Boston's 8-5 win over the Athletics at Shibe Park. Duffy's wallop came in the ninth inning, with one out and two men on, with the score knotted at 5-5. The count was two and two, when he hit a line drive over Nap Lajoie's head, hitting the right field wall. And before Eddie Murphy could track it down, both Hooper and Wagner had scored to put the Red Sox out in front. Carl Mays had been given a 5-0 lead in the first three innings, but that evaporated in the fourth inning when the Athletics scored five runs and tied the game. Two of those runs were directly charged to Mays, who allowed five hits in the frame, but the other three were unearned due to two poor throws to first on easy ground balls, by Heinie Wagner. That forced Bill Carrigan to pull Mays in the sixth inning for a pinch hitter. Joe Wood came in and shut the door on Philly for the rest of the game. Harry Hooper opening game by slamming a double to left and took third when Bob Shawkey tried to cut him down on Heinie Wagner sacrifice bunt. On the next play, as Tris Speaker was grounding out, Hooper took off and beat the throw home to score the first Red Sox run of the game. With runners on first and second, Lewis sacrificed them over. Dick Hoblitzell drove in Wagner with Speaker being held at third. Everett Scott then hit a ground ball to Jack Lapp, whose throw Lajoie dropped at first, allowing Speaker to score the third run of the inning. Wagner's double and Speaker's base hit, gave the Red Sox another run in the second inning. A base hit by Lewis, a sacrifice by Dick Hoblitzell and a muffed throw, trying to catch Duffy off second, moved him over to third. He scored on Everett Scott's sacrifice fly to make the score 4 to 0. After Philadelphia went out in front in the fourth inning, there was no more scoring until the ninth. In that inning, both Hooper and Wagner were walked to start it off. Hooper raced over to third on Speaker's long fly ball to Eddie Murphy and Lewis' line drive proved to be the winning punch, scoring Hooper and Wagner as Duffy cruised into third. He scored on Hobby's single to left to give the Sox their eight runs and the win. |
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