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DICK POLE GETS HELPED OFF
THE FIELD AFTER BEING HIT |
THE "GOLD DUST TWINS" AND
A SEASON TO REMEMBER
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The Sox in a costly split with the Orioles
June 30,
1975 ...
Dick Pole blanked Baltimore for eight innings before
he was struck in the face by a line drive. Pole outdueled Jim Palmer,
the major league's only 12-game winner. He allowed just four hits
until the ninth inning when the Orioles filled the bases on three
singles.
Tony Muser then slashed a line drive up the middle that ticked off
Pole's glove and caught him in the face. Pole laid on the ground for
a few minutes before being helped to the clubhouse. He was later
taken to the hospital were doctors determined that the ball had
broken his cheek bone. He will require surgery and be out at least a
month.
Jim Burton came in and struck out Elrod Hendricks, and Diego Segui
got Bobby Grich for the last two outs, giving the Sox a 5 to 2 win in
the first game of a doubleheader.
Carl Yastrzemski had singled home a run in the first inning after
Bernie Carbo singled and was sacrificed along by Rick Burleson. Then
in the third inning, the Sox scored three more times. Carbo walked
and Burleson again bunted him over and Yaz doubled to score Carbo.
Fred Lynn's single scored Yaz and Lynn promptly stole second. He was
driven in by Cecil Cooper's double.
Up 4-0 in the seventh inning, Carbo walked and this time Yaz doubled
him over to third. Palmer then walked Lynn intentionally and Cooper
came through again, scoring Carbo with a base hit for the Sox fifth
run.
In the second game Luis Tiant went out and got his lunch handed to
him, giving up 16 hits and losing 8 to 2. Dave Duncan who was batting
just .173 laced out four doubles. Jim Northrup had a single, a double
and a home run. Ken Singleton also had three hits.
Down 2-0 in the fifth, Bob Heise knocked in Cooper, who with Jim
Rice, got base hits, to put the Sox within a run. Tom Shopay got that
run back for Baltimore the next inning by working a suicide squeeze
with Doug DeCinces.
The sixth inning saw Fred Lynn triple home Yaz, who had reached on a
base hit, to again put the Sox with a run, 3-2. But Tiant gave up
back-to-back doubles the very next inning and the gap was once again
two runs. Four runs finally did Luis in, in the eighth inning, and
the Orioles gained a split.
Earlier in the day, Reggie Cleveland required 15 stitches near his
ear and eight in his mouth, when his car hit some water in an
underpass on Storrow Drive and was hit by another car, skidded and
flipped over, pinning him inside. |
