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DENNY GALEHOUSE |
BOSTON RED SOX ...
THE
CURSE OF THE BAMBINO, PART 3
A
SUBWAY SERIES DISAPPEARS ...
The Sox fight
back and beat the Indians
July 30, 1948
... Fighting an uphill battle behind the
superb pitching of reliever, Denny Galehouse, the Red Sox stretched
their lead in the American League to a game and a half, by coming
back and defeating the Indians, 8 to 7, before 58,862 fans in
Cleveland. Red Sox starter, Mel Parnell, was blasted out of the box
in the first inning when he allow the Indians six runs. But the Red Sox weren't
giving up and battled their way back. Galehouse pitched eight in two thirds
innings, the last of them being hitless and runless. The veteran allowed one run
and two hits altogether. While he was shutting the door on the Indians, the Red
Sox batters got hot. Four Cleveland pitchers went to the mound, Gene Bearden,
Don Black, Satchel Paige and Steve Gromek.
Rookie Billy Goodman was the man who dealt the killing blow. With the score
knotted at seven all in the seventh inning, he drilled a line drive into left
and scored Vern Stephens with the winning eighth run. Stephens and Bobby Doerr
had singled ahead of him..
The Red Sox scored three runs in the first inning. Bearden walked both Dom
DiMaggio and Johnny Pesky to start the game, and Ted Williams lined a single to
right that scored DiMaggio and sent Pesky to second. Pesky was caught stealing
third however, when Vern Stephens struck out swinging. Then Bobby Doerr drilled
his 20th home run of the season over the left-field fence, for his 12th homer of
the month, to make it 3 to 0.
The Indians came back strong against Parnell in their half of the first
scoring six runs, but the Red Sox started to chip away in the second. Goodman
and Birdie Tebbetts led off with singles, and Galehouse sacrificed them over.
DiMaggio then singled to right to score Goodman, making it 6 to 4.
In the third the Indians got a run off Galehouse on a double by Eddie
Robinson and a single by Allie Clarke. But again the Red Sox came back in their
next at bat in the top of the fourth. DiMaggio walked and Pesky hit one back to
the pitcher that he couldn't handle. Williams slammed a double to left field
against the shift to score both Pesky and DiMaggio, to make it 7 to 6. At this
point Satchel Paige came in and got out the next two batters. The Red Sox tied
it up in the seventh inning when DiMaggio doubled to right and advanced to third
when Clarke bobbled the ball. Pesky lifted a fly ball out to right and DiMaggio
to tagged up, easily scoring the tying run.
Ted Williams, who had to retire from the game in the eighth, singled one run
home and doubled in two more, before calling it a day. DiMaggio, Pesky and
Goodman accounted for the other RBIs.
The win was the 18th out of the last 20 for the Red Sox and marked the 8th
straight time they have defeated the Indians this season |
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