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JIMMY PIERSALL (FEAR STRIKES OUT) ...
Ellis Kinder stops the A's
and
helps the Sox win two games
August 14, 1952 ... Effective
relief pitching enabled the Red Sox to sweep a doubleheader from
Philadelphia, by topping a 5-4 win in a 13 inning opener, with a 4--2
decision in the nitecap.
Maurice McDermott pitched four-hit ball over the last 9 1/3 innings
of the first game after relieving rookie, Dick Brodowski with the
bases loaded. He outlasted Harry Byrd, who went the route for the
visitors. McDermott gave up only four hits and held the A's hitless
over the final four innings.
The game was tied at 4-4 from the sixth inning, when Dick Gernert
overcame a two run deficit, by blasting a home run into the left
field nets with Hoot Evers on base.
Brodowski gave Philly three runs in the opening inning on four hits,
including Billy Hitchcock's two-run single, and a walk. The Sox
picked up two runs in the bottom of the third inning, on a Brodowski
infield hit, a Dom DiMaggio triple and a Goodman double. But
Brodowski was on the ropes, when he loaded the bases with one out.
McDermott entered here, got Ferris Fain to hit into a doubleplay and
blanked the A's the rest of the way.
Billy Goodman's little ground ball, with the bases loaded in the 13th
inning, allowed Johnny Lipon to score from third with the deciding
run. With all the Philly players playing in, Goodman topped the ball
and it took a big hop as it rolled toward secondbaseman, Cass
Michaels. By the time it came down, Michaels had no chance to get
Lipon at the plate.
In the evening game, Ellis Kinder, in action for the first time since
the beginning of June, slammed the door on an Athletics' rally in the
eighth inning, to save the game for Willard Nixon, who had been quite
effective in a duel with Bobo Newsome.
The Sox gave Nixon a 2-0 lead in the fourth inning. George Kell
slashed a one-out single up the middle and tagged up and went to
second on Evers' deep fly to center. Gernert brought him home with a
double off the scoreboard. Del Wilber's triple to the deepest part of
the center field triangle brought in Gernert.
The Athletics had the bases filled and only one out when Kinder
retired Hitchcock on called strikes and Joe Astroth on a pop fly. The
Sox led 2-1 at the time, but George Kell gave Kinder a 4-1 cushion
with a two-run homer in the last of the eighth. Kinder did give up a
homer to pinch-hitter Keith Thomas to start the ninth, but set down
the next three batters in order. |
