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BEN
CHAPMAN |
The Red Sox sweep the White
Sox
four straight games, with a doubleheader win
June 17, 1937 ... The Red Sox swept a four
game series with the Chicago White Sox by taking both ends of the
"Bunker Hill Day" doubleheader, 5 to 2 and 3 to 2 in 10 innings.
Right-hander Jack Wilson allowed but five hits in the first game as
he earned his fourth win in six starts. The overtime double by Doc
Cramer and Ben Chapman's single decided the second game in favor of
the Red Sox.
Wilson issued nine free passes as his teammates belted Bill Dietrich
for nine base hits, including a homer from Eric McNair with none on
in the eighth inning. He tightened up in the pinches however and ten
base runners were stranded on base. Wilson helped his own cause by
driving out a double and a single to bring home two runs.
The Red Sox gave Rube Walberg a one run lead in the third inning of
the second game, but the White Sox wiped it out by scoring two runs
in the fourth. The Red Sox tied the game in the sixth when Cramer,
Joe Cronin and Jimmie Foxx all singled.
Then in the Chicago half of tenth inning, with the score tied at two
apiece, Mike Kreevich drove the ball to center and tried to stretch
his hit to a double when he saw Cramer juggle the ball. Cramer
recovered and threw a strike to McNair, who nailed him at the bag.
With two outs in the Red Sox half of the tenth, Cramer doubled off
the wall in left-center and raced home with the winning run when Ben
Chapman lined a single off Monty Stratton to left field. |
