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THE BABE RUNS WILD ... August 11, 1919 ... Herb Pennock and Alan Sothoron engaged in a great pitching duel today, in the third game of the series, between the Red Sox and the Browns at Fenway Park. The game was won by the Red Sox 1 to 0. Only two hits, both of them of the lucky infield variety, were made off Pennock in the first eight innings, in which time he only faced 24 men. Two clean hits were negotiated by the Browns in the ninth-inning, but they were never going to produce runs. Sothoron gave up six hits, but three of them would ordinarily have resulted in putouts. Harry Hooper's base hits and Wally Schang's bunt were the only clean cut hits made off Sothoron. It was giving up base on balls that finally did him in. In the seventh inning, with no score, Hooper singled to center and Ossie Vitt got a base on balls. With Braggo Roth at bat, Hooper and Vitt pulled a double steal. Roth was then passed to fill the bases and with Babe Ruth coming at bat, Sothoron was not in a good situation. He could not afford to take chances with the Babe under the circumstances and tried to coax him into going after bad pitches. He would not give Ruth a good one until the count was 3-0, and then he shot one over that the Babe missed for the first strike. The next one was inside, which he probably figured Ruth would foul off, if he hit it all. But the Babe took the pitch and Umpire Owens called a ball. That gave Ruth first base and forced Hooper over the plate with what proved to be the winning run. Sothoron found himself in a similar hole in the second inning, with the bases full and only one out. In that situation he forced the out and got out of the hole. Pennock was never in trouble until the ninth-inning, and then it was nothing serious. It was, however, the only inning in which more than three of the Browns came to bat. Wally Gerber, the first man up, flied out. Hank Severeid got a clean base hit to left for the first clean base hit made of Pennock in the game. Josh Billings came in to run for Severeid and Jack Tobin, a left-handed batter, surprisingly was sent up to pinch-hit for Sothoron. Tobin forced Billings at second, and Austin singled to right. It was up to Joe Gedeon to bring the tying run home and all he could do was hit an easy fly out to Hooper in short right field, for the final out of the game. The fielding chances for both teams were relatively easy, because the pitching was so good. One notable exception was a one-handed catch made by Stuffy McInnis, on which he doubled up George Sisler at first base. It was a bunt by Ken Williams, in an attempt to sacrifice, that McInnis ran in for, and while at full reach on the run, barely got his glove hand between the ball and the ground. The score could not have been closer and determine a winner. |
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