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“DIARY OF A WINNER”
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THE "GOLD DUST TWINS" AND
May 25, 1975 ... Ed Figueroa pitched a three hitter and Mickey Rivers stole three bases, to help the California Angels beat the Red Sox, 6 to 1. Figueroa struck out seven for his third win of the season. The Angels took advantage of Sox miscues in beating Reggie Cleveland who was inconsistent. They stole four bases in eight tries. The three by Rivers raised his season total to 28. California scored their first run in the first inning. Cleveland walked Rivers who stole second. Tommy Harper reached on an infield hit and both runners moved up when Cleveland uncorked a wild pitch. Rivers scored on Joe Lahoud's infield ground out to Rick Burleson. They added another run in the second inning on a walk to Tom Egan. Morris Nettles tried to bunt him along, but Sox catcher, Tim Blackwell threw the ball away, sending Egan over to third. He scored the Angels' second run on Billy Smith's sacrifice fly. The Sox rebounded with a run in the second on Jim Rice's base hit, a walk to Dwight Evans and Doug Griffin's RBI double over first base, to make the score 2 to 1. Then, with the bases loaded and two outs, Bernie Carbo was up. On the first pitch that umpire Lou DiMuro called a strike, Carbo screamed that the ball was too high. Carbo was later called out on strikes and ejected by DiMuro after a lengthy rant. Carl Yastrzemski got on DiMuro and Darrell Johnson was thrown out of the game in the fifth inning along with Griffin. In the sixth inning Yaz was finally thrown out of the game by DiMuro after protesting a 3-2 called third strike and buried home plate in the dust to protest then flipped his helmet and bat in the dirt, followed by a pair of sunglasses being tossed at the ump. The Angels wrapped the game up in the fifth inning on run scoring singles by Jerry Remy and Mickey Rivers, after Morris Nettles led off with a double off the wall. Another pair in the eighth inning came on Smith's two-run double, that scored Dave Chalk, who had walked and Leroy Stanton who singled of Rogelio Moret, who had replaced Cleveland in the sixth. The Sox were handcuffed by Figueroa, managing just one hit after Griffin's double in the second. That was Fred Lynn's line single to center in the sixth inning. |
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