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FRED LYNN |
THE "GOLD DUST TWINS" AND
A SEASON TO REMEMBER
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The Sox and Royals split a
doubleheader
June 13, 1975
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Fred Lynn hit his 10th home run, with two on in the ninth
inning, in the first game of a doubleheader that the Sox won, 10 to
4. He collected two singles in the nitecap to extend his hitting
streak to 18 games, in a 6 to 5 loss to the Kansas City Royals.
The Royals won the second game with an inside-the-park homer by Amos
Otis, in the eighth inning. The shot was his second inside-the-park
homer in five days. It followed a blast by George Brett that had tied
the game. The consecutive homers came against Dick Pole, who had
given up just five hits up to that point.
The Sox scored four times off starter Paul Splitorff before anyone
was out, in the first inning of the second game on a walk and four
consecutive singles by Rick Burleson, Carl Yastrzemski, Jim Rice and
Lynn. Down 4-0, the Royals bounced back in the second inning on a
three-run homer by Frank White. After the Sox made it 5-3 on a double
by Rice, and Lynn's run-scoring single in the sixth, Tony Solaita
homered for the Royals in the seventh inning to once again make it a
one-run game. The two home runs by Brett and Otis sewed it up for
Kansas City in the eighth, 6 to 5.
The Royals jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning of the first game off
Rick Wise. Rice was scored on a base hit by Rico Petrocelli in the second inning
for the Sox first run.
Two more runs in the third inning,
moved the Royals further out, 4-1. Rice scored again on another hit by
Petrocelli in the fourth inning, to cut the KC lead again, 4-2. Then Bernie
Carbo got the big blow for the Sox, a two-run homer with Yaz on, that tied
the game at 4-4 in the sixth inning. It was his fourth homer in five games this
year against the Royals.
Pinch hitter Cecil Cooper's infield
hit, Rick Miller's single and Rick Burleson's run-scoring single in the seventh,
put the Sox ahead for good. In that inning, Miller added another run by scoring
on a wild pitch by Lindy McDaniel.
Up 6-4, the Sox added another run
in the seventh when Cecil Cooper brought in Carbo with a base hit. Lynn's three
run homer into the right field stands, after Miller walked and Burleson singled,
finished the scoring for the Sox in the ninth, 10 to 4. Lynn had gone 0-for-3,
so the home run also kept his hitting streak alive. Rick Wise went the distance
for the Sox giving up 3 earned runs on 10 hits. |
