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GEORGE METKOVICH
HOMERS TO TIE IT UP |
THE CURSE OF THE BAMBINO, PART 2 ...
A POWERFUL RED SOX TEAM FAILS
IN THE WORLD SERIES ...
Williams' 10th inning hit gives the Sox a split
April 21, 1946 ... It took the silly Sunday curfew and Bobo Newsom to stop the streaking Red Sox. After the Sox had run their unbeaten string to five straight by beating of Philadelphia Athletics 12 to 1 in an
amazing 10 inning opener of the seasons first doubleheader at Fenway Park, Newsom used everything in his repertoire to blank the Sox, 3-0 in five innings, which was all the law allowed to be played in what was truly an anticlimactic aftermath.
City counselor James C. Bailey Jr, who has been busily trying for months now to have the Sabbath time limit lifted as 30,000 new supporters today. That was the size of the crowd, which saw the Sox suffered their first setback in such an unsatisfactory manner, and the basis for backing Bailey
couldn't have been brought home in a more spectacular and emphatic manner, than the events immediately preceding the initial defeat.
For if the first game had only gone five innings. The Sox would've dropped a 7-0 decision. That was the margin by which they were trailing at that point following a huge home run attack on bedeviled Boo Ferriss.
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GEORGE METKOVICH |
After 8 1/2 innings the Sox would have been losing 11 to 5. That was the score when the Red Sox suddenly exploded in a death-defying rally in the last of the ninth inning, that was climaxed after two were out, by George Metkovich's three-run homer into the right field grandstand.
Ted Williams ended it by singling to center with the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the 10th inning off Porter Vaughn the fourth Philly pitcher,
12-11.
With the score 11 to 5, Hal
Wagner started the ninth inning
by singling, Glenn Russell sliced a double to right, Dom DiMaggio and Johnny Pesky both walked to force in a run and up came Ted Williams with the bases loaded. Ted lined a single to score two runs, making it 11-8. After Bobby Doerr,
and Rudy York went out, up came the
Metkovich. The count was two balls and one strike when he took Joe Berry's best pitch a dozen rows into the right field seats.
The defensive of play of the game was also made by Metkovich when he reached into the right field stands and took a second home run away from Jack Wallaesa with a backhanded grab. |
