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"THE GREATEST HITTER THAT EVER LIVED" April 25, 1939 ... Jimmie Foxx made the big noise at Fenway Park with the score tied at 5-5 in the 11th inning of a game with the Washington Nationals. On the first pitch he saw from Joe Krakauskas, he sent the ball flying over the left frield wall. It banged off a roof on the other side of Lansdowne Street and bounced onto the railroad tracks some 440 ft away. The mighty wallop gave the Red Sox a 6 to 5 victory, furnishing a thrilling climax to an extra inning game which 4000 of the Fenway faithful shivered through for two hours and 53 minutes. In the third inning Foxx and made a double which was wasted. But his hitting was not the only thrill that he furnished. His fielding was one of the features of the game. The Red Sox used four pitchers with Fritz Ostermueller starting and working six innings, giving up two runs, one of which was earned, on five hits and an error. George Case singled in the first inning to right and with one out, went to third on a ground ball that got by Jim Tabor, the Sox thirdbaseman. He was able to score on a sacrifice fly to center for the Nats first run. They scored again in the fourth inning on a single and a double by Case. Now down 2 to 0, Gene Desautels singled and was brought home on Joe Vosmik's double in the fifth inning. The Sox took the lead in the sixth inning on a walk to Joe Cronin, a single by Ted Williams, on which Taffy Wright made an error in right field and another error by shortstop Cecil Travis on a ground ball by Fabian Gaffke, who batted for Ostermueller. Woody Rich followed to the mound and took over the game with the score 4 to 2 in favor of the Red Sox. Rich had poor control and was missing the corners of the plate by small margins. He walked two batters and was hit for two singles, all of which enabled the opposition the score two more runs and tie the count at 4 to 4. Afterwards he was relieved by Emerson Dickman with one out in the inning. Dickman stopped Washington in the seventh inning, but they got to him for a run in the eighth on a walk after two men were out. Two singles followed in succession and the Nats took the lead 5 to 4. The Red Sox worked the game back into a tie in the ninth-inning. Walks were issued to Foxx and Cronin, followed by a single by Tabor that brought Foxx came in to tie the game at 5 to 5. With runners on second and third and nobody out, Ted Williams was ordered to sacrifice, but hit into a doubleplay. His bunt was popped up toward thirdbaseman Charlie Gilbert, who grabbed the ball and was able to double up Tabor at first. Joe Heving worked the last three innings and held Washington to just one hit. Krakauskas started the game for Washington and although he passed ten batters and was hit safely for nine hits and a total of 14 bases, three doubleplays saves him initially from defeat |
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