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JIM TABOR |
The Sox sweep a doubleheader
on
two ninth inning homers and a protested game
June
7, 1942 ... Jimmy Dykes officially protested a 3 to
2 Red Sox decision, scored in eight innings over his White Sox in the
second game of a doubleheader at Fenway Park. The Red Sox swept both
games by identical scores. The confusion was traced to the Sunday
Blue Laws and baseball curfew. The Red Sox had the winning run on third, with
the bases loaded and nobody out, as the deadline ticked away. Dykes wanted a
relief pitcher and signaled with his left hand. The umpire signaled that the
only lefty warming up in the Chicago bullpen, Jake Wade, be brought into the
game to pitch. But Dykes wanted the right-hander, Pete Appleton to be brought
in. He charged out to the umpire and told him that Wade was not the pitcher he
wanted, but umpire Cal Hubbard told him that Wade was the pitcher he signaled
for. Dykes was irrate and informed the umpiring crew that the game was being
played under protest.
Wade made his first two pitches to Lou Finney and then the ball was hit to
deep center, long enough for Paul Campbell to score the winning run from third
and a 3 to 2 Red Sox victory. As Campbell crossed the plate, time had run out
and the game was over.
The score was tied at 2 to 2, when Joe Cronin pinch-hit for Charlie Wagner in
the ninth-inning. He hit the first pitch for a line drive single to left and
brought in Campbell to run for him. Dominic DiMaggio was next and twice tried to
lay down a bunt. In the third inning with Charlie Wagner on base, DiMaggio had
hit his sixth home run of the season for the first two Red Sox runs. This time
he singled past Luke Appling into centerfield, sending Campbell over to
third-base. Johnny Pesky was then given an intentional walk, bringing up Finney
and the confusion over the pitching change.
The Red Sox might have eliminated the arguement in the seventh inning, when
Ted Williams doubled and Bobby Doerr beat out a bunt with nobody out. But the
two were left on base when the next three batters popped out. It was Charlie
Wagner's fifth victory of the season, allowing only three hits in eight innings
and retiring the last 17 White Sox batters in order.
Dick Newsome had outpitched Ted Lyons in the opener by a narrow margin. A
walk to Williams, a double by Doerr and Lupien's fly ball gave the Red Sox a run
in the second inning. But the White Sox took a 2 to 1 lead when Wally Moses hit
a home run with Ted Lyons on base, in the eighth-inning.
Bobby Doerr hit Lyons first pitch in the ninth-inning high into the
left-field screen for his ninth home run that tied the game. Tony Lupien lined
out, bringing up Jim Tabor who took another fly ball into the screen on the
first pitch to him, for a walkoff 3 to 2 victory. |
