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PETE BROBERG |
THE "GOLD DUST TWINS" AND
A SEASON TO REMEMBER
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Pete Broberg holds the Sox in check
April 9, 1975
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Hank Aaron may not want to return to Boston in a hurry, but his
Milwaukee Brewers teammates won't mind after they whipped the Red Sox
7 to 4, to split the brief season opening series at Fenway Park.
Aaron had absolutely no part in the Brewers victory for the second
day in a row, by a pair of Red Sox pitchers who were much less
effective against the rest of the Milwaukee lineup. He walked twice,
fouled out once and hit into a pair of doubleplays. Meanwhile, the
Brewers did some solid early game hitting against Bill Lee. They then showed the
sparse and half frozen crowd how to get runs without getting hits. They back to
sharp pitching of Pete Broberg with timely hitting and errorless defense and
when manager Del Crandall saw that Broberg was tiring in the seventh inning, he
brought in his ace reliever Tom Murphy, to wrap it up.
The Red Sox, who might have looked like champions in the previous game,
resembled chumps in the second game. Carl Yastrzemski and Rico Petrocelli may
throwing errors and failed to do much of anything at the plate. Rico did single
to center for the Red Sox first hit, but he foolishly tried to stretch it when
the ball bounced away from Bob Coluccio only to be an easy out at second base as
Johnny Briggs retrieved the ball and made a good throw.
Lee began to dig himself into a hole in the third inning and was in constant
trouble thereafter, until he was taken out in the seventh with what was
described as a cramp in his forearm. Diego Segui came in and wild pitched across
Milwaukee's final run in the eighth-inning. Lee was all over the place with his
pitches in contrast to Broberg, who stymied the meat of the Red Sox batting
order. It was only the second career win for Broberg over the Red Sox in seven
decisions.
George Scott started the Milwaukee winning surge with a two run single in the
third inning and then the Brewers really slammed Lee in the fourth. Sixto
Lezcano led off with the first of two doubles and was followed in quick
succession by singles from Darrell Porter, Pedro Garcia and Robin Yount.
Followed by a sacrifice fly from Coluccio.
In the sixth inning, Porter led off with a walk and was sacrificed to second
by Garcia. Garcia reach safely when Yaz fielded his bunt and threw the ball into
centerfield trying to force Porter at second. Porter went to third on the
throwing error. Yount then lifted a fly to short center which Doug Griffin
caught brilliantly with his back to the plate and immediately was knocked over
when he collided with Rick Burleson. Porter tagged and scored after the catch,
but the Red Sox got the ball back in time to double up Garcia.
The top of the Red Sox order was in hitting it all, leaving most of
everything up to Dwight Evans and Bob Montgomery. Evans drove in two runs with a
triple and Monty followed with a double in the only good inning for the Red Sox,
the three run fourth inning. Pinch-hitter Cecil Cooper singled home Evans with
the other run in the ninth-inning. |
