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ROY WHITE |
THE "GOLD DUST TWINS" AND
A SEASON TO REMEMBER
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Roy White leads
the Yankees in a rout
April 21, 1975
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Roy White kept up his solid hitting and Pat Dobson found his winning
form for the first time this season, as the Yankees battered Bill Lee
and beat the Red Sox in a 12 to 1 rout. The difference between Dobson
and Lee was that Dobson was getting his junk in pretty good places
and Lee was putting his nice and fat on the New Yorker's bats.
White went four for four with a home run, a double, and two singles, scored four
runs and drove in two. The perfect day capped a torrid streak since he returned
from a hand injury the first week of the season. His hot hitting triggered a 16
hit assault by the Yanks.
White's leadoff double got the Yankees started on a four-run first inning. He
had a run-scoring single in the midst of a six run fourth inning, walked in the
sixth and eventually scored on Bobby Bonds' sacrifice fly. Then he slugged his
first home run of the year to close out the Yankees scoring in the
eighth-inning.
The Yankees scored off four Red Sox pitchers, Lee, Dick Drago, Rogelio Moret
and Dick Pole. They got Lee in trouble in the first inning. After walking
Elliott Maddox, Thurman Munson Alex Johnson and Lou Piniella lashed out three
consecutive singles, good for two runs. A sacrifice fly ball netted a third run.
Lee settled down until the fourth inning, but then gave up five singles for
two more runs, before being replaced by Dick Drago. But Drago fared no better,
walking Maddox and giving up hits to Bonds and Munson that put the Yankees up 10
to 0. New York got another run in the sixth and the home run by White, in the
eighth, accounted for their final two runs.
Dobson, meanwhile, gave up only an infield single in the first seven innings.
He pitched out of trouble in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings in his bid
for a shutout. The Red Sox however broke through in the ninth on a double by Tim
Blackwell and singles by Kim Andrew and Bob Heise. |
