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SKEETER NEWSOME |
THE SOX STARS LEAVE
TO FIGHT IN THE WAR ...
A ninth inning rally brings
the Sox all
the way back to win against the White Sox
June
6, 1943 ... The Red Sox snared a doubleheader
from the Chicago White Sox, 4 to 3 and 3 to 2 in that order. They
came up with a rousing three-run rally in the ninth-inning of the
first game, where Skeeter Newsome singled into centerfield and scored
Bobby Doerr with the winning run. Contributing a triple and the
first run of the game, Dee Miles produced a two run single in the sixth inning
of the second game, driving in Al Simmons and Newsome with the tying and winning
runs. Then Andy Karl held the White Sox for Yank Terry, over the three remaining
innings.
Simmons came up with three consecutive singles in the second game, one of
them a bad bounce that escaped Luke Appling. Skeeter Newsome got a double in the
eighth of the opener giving him four in the last three days.
Oscar Judd pitched the distance in the first game after he stumbled in the
first inning, when the White Sox scored three runs, which is all they had in the
game. He yielded a total of ten hits, three of which never left the infield, and
a couple of loopers, that fell safely into the short outfield. Miles' triple,
that almost fell into the right-field stands and Tony Lupien's hot line drive
that Guy Cutright snared on the dead run, accounted the only run that Orville
Grove, the White Sox pitcher allowed for the first eight innings.
Then in the ninth-inning, the Red Sox were down 3 to 1 and Grove passed Pete
Fox, the first batter up. Lupien sent Fox over to third on a line drive hit to
right. Grove was taken out for Joe Haynes, who got Jim Tabor to fly out to
centerfield, as Fox tagged up and scored the Red Sox first run of the inning.
Bobby Doerr then dropped a perfect bunt down toward third and safely beat it to
first.
Joe Cronin inserted himself as a pinch-hitter and struck out. Roy Partee kept
things alive by drilling a single to left and Lupien poured on his speed to beat
the throw home with the tying run. Up came Skeeter with two hits already under
his belt. He pickled the pitch to dead centerfield and Doerr sprinted all the
way around from second, with the game-winning run.
Yank Terry pitched good ball for the first six innings in the second game,
until he was hoisted for Cronin's second fruitless pinchhitting appearance. The
Sox got away with a one to nothing lead in the third inning, on Bill Conroy's
single, a pass to Terry, a bunt by Miles and Fox's fly to left.
Chicago tied the game in the fourth and then took a 2 to 1 lead in the sixth.
The locals won the game in their half of the inning when Simmons and Newsome
connected with successive singles with one away. Conroy drew a free pass to load
the bases and Cronin appeared again for Terry and flew out.
But Dee Miles had another hit left in his bat. He powered a solid single to
right-center, which brought in the tying and winning runs that eventually were
the game winners. Andy Karl had one shaking moment in his relief stint in the
eighth-inning, when he gave up two hits. But he forced a pop out for the third
out of the inning. |
