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The Sox rally and comeback to beat Washington May 10, 1963 ... A combination of timely hitting by Frank Malzone and superb pitching from Jack Lamabe brought the Red Sox a 6 to 3 victory over the Senators. Lamabe was brilliant in relief, retiring the first eight batters in a row, five coming on strikeouts. After a 22 minute rain delay, Lamabe came back and forced a game-ending doubleplay. In the third inning, Washington scored first on a double by Ed Brinkman and Jimmy Piersall's single to right. Brinkman tried to score but Lou Clinton cut him down with a strong throw to the plate. Piersall then scampered home on Chuck Hinton's single. The Senators got a second run, the next inning, on Larry Osborne's homer into the right field bleachers. The Sox overcame the two run deficit, tying the game up, on Dick Stuart's home run in the fifth inning, with Gary Geiger on base via a walk, only to then fall behind 3-2. A double by Chuck Cottier off Ike Delock and a soft line-drive single to center by Tom Cheney, the pitcher, put Washington back up by a run. When Piersall singled, Lamabe came in to pitch and got Jim King to end the inning. But the Sox tied it up again in the sixth inning. Two walks from Cheney to Eddie Bressoud and Carl Yastrzemski, preceded a game tying base hit by Frank Malzone. Malzone got three hits, including an eighth inning double that broke a 3-3 tie, this time scoring Lamabe and Bressoud who Cheney had walked. Then with Ron Kline now pitching, Gary Geiger scored Malzone on a base hit to put the Sox up by three. Lamabe retired three straight in the seventh, struck out two in the eighth and got one strikeout in the ninth before the rain delay. |
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