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JOE
VOSMIK |
"THE GREATEST HITTER THAT EVER LIVED"
STEPS UP TO THE PLATE ...
Joe Vosmik helps complete
a doubleheader sweep of Washington
May 27, 1939
... Six home runs swept the Red Sox to twin
victories over the Washington Nationals. It was the Sox sixth triumph
over the Nats in seven games.
Lefty Grove, aided by Jimmie Foxx's sixth homer in the first inning,
along with one by Joe Vosmik in the eighth inning, with two men on,
won the first game, 11 to 4. Washington was never in it. The Sox
pounced on Jimmie DeShong for four runs in the first inning and
constructed an 8-0 lead in the blink of an eye. It was Lefty's fourth
victory against a single defeat.
Washington snatched a 2-0 lead in the first inning of the second
game, before the Sox, knocked out three homers from Bobby Doerr, Ted
Williams and Joe Cronin in the third inning, that staked them to a
5-2 lead. Doerr smashed a homer into the left field net first. Doc
Cramer singled and Vosmik walked ahead of Ted, who fired a 430 ft
homer into the center field bleachers. Cronin followed with a shot
over the left field wall.
But the Nats bounced back and whittled the lead down a run in the
sixth inning. They then produced three runs in the seventh inning to
grab a 6-5 advantage.
Then, in the bottom of the seventh, Cramer doubled with one out, but
was thrown out at third base on Vosmik's grounder. Foxx next drew a
walk, setting up Williams, who lined a double to right, scoring one
runner and tying the game at 6 to 6.
Jack Wilson was credited with winning the second game when Vosmik,
the first batter up in the ninth inning, blasted a walk-off shot into
the left-centerfield screen to give the Sox a 7 to 6 decision. Wilson
issued only two singles in the last two innings, after taking over
for Elden Auker. |
