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“DIARY OF A WINNER”
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THE LAST ONE FOR 86 YEARS June 27, 1918 ... The Red Sox dropped the last game of the series with the Yankees at the Polo Grounds this afternoon, by a score of 7 to 5, losing three out of the four games played in New York, and they were therefore dislodged from their perch at the head of the American League pennant race. Joe Bush had the better of George Mogridge and, but for the costly errors, both of commission and omission, should have come through an easy winner. The Sox pounded Mogridge furiously from start to finish, and but for the sharpest kind of fielding by the Yanks, and some shady base running by the Sox, New York would have been buried. The errors by Dave Shean were expensive in the extreme and a brief nap that Sam Agnew took at third base in the sixth inning, really marked the turn of the tide against the Sox. Agnew had singled to left and when Joe Bush sent a one base bouncer past short, Agnew romped to third. With one man out and runners on third and first, the outlook for a cluster runs seemed imminent. Then Agnew, after taking a lead off third, began daydreaming and was only brought back to the reality of the Polo Grounds, when the ball thrown by catcher Truck Hannah sailed by his head and into the hands of Frank Baker, who tagged Sam Agnew out. Harry Hooper was at bat at the time, and after the play, hit a single to left field. Had Sam Agnew been on third, he obviously would have scored and Joe Bush would have gone to second. The result would have been one man out, one run in, and two on base. As it was, however, Bush was on second, Hooper on first with two out. Dave Shean made the third out, grounding out to Wally Pipp and the Red Sox did not score. This seemed to weaken the morale of the Sox, for Joe Bush was hit hard in the sixth inning, and in the eighth, giving way to King Bader to pitch. The Sox started the game like winners. In the first inning Harry Hooper opened with a double, which was followed by singles from Shean and Wally Schang, driving Harry Hooper home. Babe Ruth, who had been banging doubles and homers all over the lot, gave the crowd a chance for a laugh when he struck out. But Stuffy McInnis followed with a single that scored Shean. The score was two to nothing in favor of the Red Sox. The Yankees got two runs back in the bottom of the first on Frank Gilhooley's bunt, Schang's wild throw, and Wally Pipp's hit. After one inning, the score was tied. In the second, Sam, Agnew singled, Harry Hooper hit a Texas leaguer and Dave Shean hit a sacrifice fly, to give Red Sox a run and a 3 to 2 lead. The Red Sox got one in the fifth inning on a pass to Wally Schang, Ruth's single, and Stuffy McInnis' sacrifice fly. In the bottom of the fifth Dave Shean missed Gilhooley's grounder, followed by Hooper's wild throw and Roger Peckinpaugh's single, netting the Yankees one run and making the score 4 to 3 still in favor of the Red Sox. Wally Pipp's single and Ping Bodie's home run yielded the Yankees two runs in the sixth and two more came in the seventh on Peckinpaugh's pass, Frank Baker's single, and Shean's bad throw to first, followed by Wally Pipp's sacrifice fly. The final score was Yankee seven, Red Sox five. |
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