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A NEW
ERA BEGINS WITH YAZ ...
Two Jackie Jensen homers first tie the game
and then win the game
August 24, 1961
... Jackie Jensen got in a couple of good licks
against the Washington Senators. He hit a two-run homer against Dick
Donovan in the sixth inning to tie the game at four all. Then,
against Pete Burnside, in the 10th inning, he hit a walk-off homer to
win the game 5 to 4.
The winner, in relief, was Mike Fornieles. Ike Delock started for the
Sox and breezed through six hitters in the first two innings.
In the second, the Sox went up 1-0 on Donovan when Pete Runnels
reached on an infield second and advanced on a passed ball. He
eventually scored on a bobbled ground ball.
But in the third inning, Delock walked the first two batters. Donovan
singled one in and Bob Johnson brought home the second, to give
Washington a 2-1 lead. Third inning singles by Jensen and Pumpsie
Green, followed by a doubleplay, tied the score back up.
In the sixth inning, Gene Woodling got a base hit and Jim King
homered. But in the Sox half, Runnels poked a double against the left
field fence and Jensen lifted a ball into the net to tie the game
once again at 4-4.
With one out in the ninth inning, Gary Geiger doubled and Carl
Yastrzemski was intentionally walked. Frank Malzone stung a liner
back at the pitcher, Mike Garcia, who was able to block the ball and
throw out Malzone. However, that moved both Geiger and Yaz up a base.
Burnside came in to replaced the shaken Garcia and got Nixon on a fly
to right.
Jensen then took a pitch from Burnside in the 10th and deposited it
high in the left field net and the game was finished. In his last
five trips to the plate he had homered three times and singled,
driving in six runs. |
