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The Red Sox pull out a 5-4 win over the A's May 28, 1929 ... The league leading Athletics, after winning 11 straight, ran into a snag at Fenway Park. The Red Sox staged a stubborn uphill fight and came away a winner, by a score of 5 to 4. Bob Barrett, who came into the game as a pinch hitter in the seventh inning, drove in a run with a single and in the next inning drove in the tying and winning runs with another hit. The A's had gotten away to a four run lead. Although he was hit freely, Sox pitcher, Milt Gaston, pitched clutch ball when he needed to except in the fourth inning. There, with the bases loaded, Mule Haas slammed a triple, driving in three runs. The Sox scored their first run when Al Simmons tried to make a shoestring catch on Charlie Berry with two outs and a man on first. He missed and it allowed Bobby Reeves to come all the way around from first to score, making the score 4 to 1. Rube Walberg was driven out of the game in the seventh inning, when Grant Gillis opened with a double and Bob Barrett drove him home with a base-hit. Barrett then stole second and moved on to third when nobody covered second to take Mickey Cochrane's throw. He scored on a sacrifice fly, to cut the A's lead to one run, 4 to 3. Then in the eighth, Jack Rothrock beat out an infield hit and both Billy Barrett and Elliott Bigelow drew free passes. Then Bob Barrett drove a single to center and both Rothrock and Billy Barrett scored the tying and go-ahead runs. Gaston put down the A's in ninth and the Sox claimed a satisfying win that got them out of the American League's cellar. |
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