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“DIARY OF A WINNER”
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THE "GOLD DUST TWINS" AND
April 12, 1975 ... Doug Griffin's run-scoring single in the 13th inning, gave the Red Sox a 3 to 2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles at Memorial Stadium. Juan Beniquez led off the first inning with a single. After Dwight Evans lined out to left-field, Carl Yastrzemski doubled to right-center. Tony Conigliaro then drilled a single to right, but Yaz was thrown out at the plate on a perfect throw by Ken Singleton. The Orioles got the run back in the first inning on a sliced Tommy Davis, wrong field, chop line double. Paul Blair who had walked before Davis' hit, scored on a fielder's choice. In the Baltimore second inning, after Brooks Robinson singled and was erased in a doubleplay, Doug DeCinces tripled off Sox starter, Reggie Cleveland and scored on Ken Singleton's single, to give the Orioles a 2 to 1 lead. After that Reggie just breezed along until the 12th inning. Dwight Evans tied the game at 2 to 2 for the Sox in the top of the ninth-inning and sent the game into extra innings, when he belted his first home run of the season, with one out, off starter Ross Grimsley. In the 12th inning, Yaz tried to sneak home after a grounder to short and was thrown out by Lee May. In two days the Sox have had three men thrown out at home, three picked off, and still managed to win. In the bottom of the 12th, Reggie got into some trouble. DeCinces drew a walk and was bunted over to second. He went to third on Ken Singleton's dribbler back to the mound. Paul Blair hit a hopping, spinning ball back through the middle, that took a bad hop, but Rick Burleson played it perfectly on the side and threw out Blair by half a step. Right-hander Jesse Jefferson, who had replaced Grimsley in the 11th inning began the 13th by walking Bob Montgomery. Rick Miller ran for Monty and was sacrificed to second by Jim Rice. Burleson walked and then Griffin poked a one strike single back through the box to score the go-ahead run. Dick Drago replaced Cleveland in the bottom of the 13th and finished off the game for the Red Sox. But mostly the game was about the great pitching of Cleveland and Grimsley. |
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