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ROY PARTEE |
IN THE RUNNING UP
UNTIL
UNCLE SAM CALLS AGAIN ...
Roy Partee hits a walk-off game winning homer
June
8, 1944 ... The Red Sox beat the Yankees by an 8 to
7 score because Roy Partee fashioned a dramatic finish in the
ninth-inning with two men out, when he hit a home run to win the
game. The score was tied at seven apiece when Partee wailed Atley
Donald's first pitch out of the ballpark. The contest had earlier
promised to be a cake-walk win for the Red Sox because they had established a
five-run lead, which was extended 6-0 by the second inning. Then the Yankees got
busy and prosperity was too much for George Woods, the Red Sox pitcher to
handle.
Woods proved to be a soft touch for the Yankees as they cleaned up with four
runs in the third inning and then two more to tie the game.
At the start of the game, Pete Fox doubled and Bob Johnson got life on an
error, after which George Metkovich and Bobby Doerr produced a two runs,
followed by three successive passes by the Yankees pitcher Joe Page.
The Red Sox led the game and hitting but should have walked away with it,
except they had left 10 runners on base. |
