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GENE DESAUTELS |
Gene Desautels helps beat
the Tigers in 10 innings
July 30, 1937 ... Jack Wilson not only blanked
the Tigers without a hit for the final two innings in this overtime
ball game, but also knocked in the winning run in the 10th inning. He
blasted a double into right center field that allowed Doc Cramer to
stroll home with the walk-off game winning run, 6 to 5.
Gene Desautels figured in four of the five Sox runs. He doubled
against the left field wall in the third inning, driving home the
first two Sox runs. Then he singled to start the rally that produced
the third run in the seventh inning. And finally he sent across the
fifth run that tied the game with a perfect squeeze bunt in the
eighth inning.
The Tigers scored first in the third inning but the Sox went ahead in
the fourth inning. Joe Cronin led off with a base hit and Jimmie Foxx
reached on an error by shortstop Charlie Gelbert. Eric McNair walked
to load the bases in front of a Desautels double.
Two doubles and two singles consecutively by the Tigers put them out
front, 4 to 2. Singles by Desautels and Dom Dallessandro put two men
on base for the Sox in the seventh inning. Ben Chapman drove a single
to left, that scored Desautels with the Sox third run. Three Detroit
singles erased that run in the eighth inning off Rube Walberg, who
relieved Lefty Grove.
With the score at 5 to 3, going into the bottom of the eighth, the
Sox roared back with two runs that tied the game. Walks to Mike
Higgins and Eric McNair, followed by Doc Cramer's single to center,
scored one run. Desautels then laid a perfect bunt down the first
baseline that allowed McNair to sprint home with the game tying run,
and eventually sent the game into overtime.
McNair started the tenth with a fly ball to centerfield. Cramer
singled down the third baseline and made it safely into second on
Desautels' ground ball to short. Wilson's line drive in.to right
center ended an exciting afternoon at Fenway Park. |
