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“DIARY OF A WINNER”
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THE "GOLD DUST TWINS" AND
June 1, 1975 ... After hitting four home runs and running up a 9-0 lead in the first three innings, it took Dick Drago to finish off an 11 to 9 win against the Twins. Carl Yastrzemski, Fred Lynn and Doug Griffin cracked home runs as the Red Sox scored seven runs in the first two innings off Minnesota rookie, Jim Hughes. With two outs in the first inning, Yaz sliced his fifth homer of the season into the short left field porch and ignited a four-run uprising. Fred Lynn followed with a single up the middle, Jim Rice drew a walk, and Dwight Evans blooped a single to center to load the bases. Juan Beniquez's double to left gave the Sox a 4 to 0 lead. Luis Tiant walked the bases loaded in the second inning but got out of the jam by striking out Tom Kelly. Griffin led off the second with his first home run in two years, and Lynn's two-run homer finished Hughes' day, as the Sox went up 7-0. The Sox added two more runs in the third inning off Twins' reliever Bill Butler, who walked Evans and gave up a single to Beniquez. A sacrifice fly by Griffin scored Beniquez and a run-scoring single by Rick Burleson gave the Sox a 9-0 lead. Tiant, who now has had 27 runs scored for him in his last three starts, appeared ready to breeze in and didn't allow a hit until Twins' catcher, Glenn Borgmann, lined a two-out single to center field in the fourth inning, scoring Tom Kelly who had reached on another walk by Tiant. Bernie Carbo's run-scoring single that scored Tim Blackwell in the fifth inning, pushed the Sox up to a 10-1 lead. Jim Rice produced the Sox eleventh run with a home run in the sixth. Brye's homer in the fifth scored Rod Carew, who singled, to extend his hitting streak at eight games. Then Brye and Tony Oliva produced run-scoring singles in the sixth inning off Diego Segui to cut the Sox lead to 11-5. Carew laced a single up the middle in the eighth inning that scored Sergio Ferrer, who had tripled to right-center, leading off the inning. Oliva added his second run-scoring single that brought in Carew, to knock out Segui, as the Twins cut the lead to 11-7. Then Larry Hisle greeted Dick Drago with a run-scoring single that scored Brye, and Eric Solderholm, who ran for Oliva, scooted home when rookie secondbaseman, Kurt Hunter and Rick Burleson combined on a double error trying for a force out at second, cutting the Sox lead to two runs, 11-9. Hunter let a soft grounder go between his legs and Burleson got the ball, dove to try and tag Hisle but let the ball get away as Solderholm walked in. In the ninth inning, Drago walked Braun and gave up another hit to Carew before getting Brye on a ground ball and Bobby Darwin on a pop-up and end the game. Fred Lynn concluded the series going 7-for-14, hitting a homer and a single to lift up his batting average to .352 and his slugging percentage to .616, chasing Carew who boosted his average to .390 with three hits. |
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