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“DIARY OF A WINNER”
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THE CURSE OF THE BAMBINO, PART 6 ... July 3, 1967 ... Lee Stange kept the Red Sox winning streak alive by stopping the California Angels with a seven hitter. Backed by home runs from Mike Andrews, Reggie Smith and Tony Conigliaro, he stopped the Angels 9 to 3 at Anaheim Stadium. Five pitchers worked for California, with starter Jack Hamilton, taking the loss. Stange, who had not beaten the Angels in the last two years, allowed just three singles in the first seven innings while the Sox were building up the lead. Andrews and Smith both connected for bases empty home runs, and Conigliaro's came with a man on while catcher, Mike Ryan, drove in two runs with a sacrifice fly and a single. The Red Sox took a 1 to 0 lead without the benefit of a hit in the second inning. Their first hit came soon after, when Mike Andrews who was leading off the third, belted a home run into the Angels bullpen in left. It was his third home run of the year. Then Jack Hamilton walked Joe Foy and Carl Yastrzemski, following Andrews' homer. Angels manager, Bill Rigney, then brought in Pete Cimino to pitch to Tony Conigliaro, who hit a hard ground ball back through the box. Shortstop Jim Fregosi flashed to his left, diving face first to make the stop, and got the force at second. Joe Foy moved to third on the play, but probably would've scored had Fregosi not made such a spectacular play. Foy scored anyway when George Scott hit a sacrifice fly, to make it 3 to 0. The Sox still only had just one hit, the Andrews home run. In the Angels half of the third inning, they got a run off Stange as catcher Bob Rodgers opened it up with a single, took second on a groundout and moved to third when Cimino singled sharply to left. With runners on first and third with one out, Stange got José Cardenal to hit a ground ball that looked like an inning ending double play. But Jerry Adair bobbled it and only had time to get one out, the force at second, allowing Rodgers to come in from third, making it 3 to 1. Cimino pitched excellently and held the Sox hitless and scoreless before leaving for a pinch-hitter in the bottom of the sixth. He was replaced by Bill Kelso to start the seventh, who was greeted by the Red Sox second hit of the day, another home run. Reggie lined a shot inside the right-field foul pole, for his fifth home run of the season, putting the Sox ahead, 4 to 1. In the eighth-inning, the Red Sox got the third hit of the game and this was also another home run, Conigliaro's 12th of the season. Foy, after drawing a walk, was on base when Tony belted a drive over the centerfield wall, at the 393 foot marker, for his 10th home run in the last 21 games. Counting Foy's game-winning home run in the eighth-inning the Kansas City, the last four Sox hits had all been home runs. Scott broke the streak with a single, following Conigliaro. Then, when Smith singled after two were out, Kelso was replaced by Lew Burdette. Ryan jumped on him with a single up the middle that scored Scott from second to make the score 7 to 1. The Angels, held scoreless from the third inning on, picked up their second run in the eighth on a single by Rodgers, a walk to Knoop and a single by Jay Johnstone. The Sox got that run back in the ninth when they scored two runs off Clyde Wright. A walk to Mike Andrews and successive singles by Yaz, Conigliaro and Scott, made it 9 to 1. Paul Schaal led off the ninth for California, with a home run for the final run of the game. The Sox in winning, are now 5 and 2 on the current road trip. The victory was their fourth in a row, keeping them in a three-way tie for second place with Detroit and Minnesota. |
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