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Joe Harris starts two
winning rallies May 1, 1923 ... Two brilliant rallies late in the game at Fenway Park, saw the Red Sox overcome a four-run lead and defeat the Athletics, 5 to 4. In each instance, Joe Harris started the rally with a double and altogether, he was very much in evidence in the two offense of outbursts. He made two doubles and a single in his four times at bat. Howard Ehmke, who was in the box for the Sox, pitched well after he got underway, except in the sixth inning when the passing of Jimmy Dykes put him in the hole for two runs. The other two runs came in the second when Joe Hauser got to him for a home run into the right-field bleachers, and Bing Miller smacked a single which was followed by a double that scored him. Except in those two innings Ehmke pitched great ball, striking out 10 batters which is a high for the season. He struck out the side in the ninth-inning with the Athletics having the tying run on third and the winning run on second. In the sixth inning with the bases full, he struck out Joe Hauser. But the most impressive thing about the game was the successful uphill fight made by the Sox. Curley Ogden who was on the mound for the Athletics, was effective for five innings, in only one of which, the Sox got more than one hit. Chick Galloway, the shortstop, was a stonewall on the defense for the Athletics. He had ten chances which he handled flawlessly. Philadelphia got away in the lead in the second inning. Hauser hit the first pitch he saw into the right-field bleachers. Bing Miller followed with a single to left and after Galloway had fouled out to Burns, scored on a double to the fence in left-center by Frank Welch. After this Philadelphia did not get a hit until the fifth inning,when singles by Ogden and Wid Matthews, and a base on balls to Cy Perkins filled the bases with only one out. Then Ehmke tightened up and got Harry Riconda on a pop up and struck out Hauser. In the sixth inning, Bing Miller led off with a single and took second on Galloway's sacrifice. After Welch struck out, Dykes was passed. With the count against him, Ogden, took one of Ehmke's fastballs and sent it up against the left-field wall, near the scoreboard, for a double that scored Miller and Dykes. The four runs gave the Red Sox quite a handicap to overcome but they stuck to it. With one down in the Red Sox half of the sixth, Harris banged the ball off the left-field fence for a double. Burns was then hit by a pitch and Reichle singled to left, scoring Harris. McMillan was thrown out at first as Burns and Reichle moved up to second and third. Howie Shanks then blooped a pop up to left that fell in in front of Miller and scored both runners, but he was thrown out when trying to take second base. Sox were now down only by a score of 4 to 3. In the eighth-inning, Harris this time, the first batter up, cracked out another double to left and scored on George Burns' double to the same area. Bing Miller spoiled an extra base hit by Reichle with a diving catch on the bank in left field. But McMillan drove the ball safely to left for two bases that scored Burns with what proved to be the winning run. Fred Heimach took the ball from Ogden and got Shanks to pop up and Val Picinich to ground out and end the Sox rally. Now up a run, 5 to 4, Ehmke got into a hole in the ninth-inning. After Jimmy Dykes struck out, Heimach hit a slow ground ball towards Shanks who backed up on it to make the play and threw late to first. Sammy Hale came up to pinch-hit and Ehmke struck him out but then Cy Perkins drove a liner to center that John Collins was lucky to hold to a double. Beauty McGowan was put in to pinch run Perkins but Ehmke struck out Riconda to end the game. That was his 10th strikeout. |
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