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THE "GOLD DUST TWINS" AND
A SEASON TO REMEMBER
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Jim Rice, Fred Lynn and
Cecil Cooper bring the Sox
all the way back
July 9,
1975 ...
Trailing the Minnesota Twins by six runs, going into the
bottom of the third inning, the Sox kept chipping away, cutting the
margin to one run in the eighth inning. And it was Jim Rice, Fred
Lynn and Cecil Cooper, who then powered the Sox to a dramatic 9 to 8
come-from-behind walkoff victory.
Trailing 8-4 in the
eighth inning, Rice drilled a vicious RBI double off the wall in left
center, scoring Denny Doyle who had tripled to left-center. Lynn
followed up with his 15th homer of the year, hoisting a 1-2 pitch
into the left field screen, producing his 60th and 61st RBIs and
cutting the Twins' lead to one run, 8-7.
Then in the ninth, Cooper tied the score on a 3-1 pitch that he sent
over the Sox bullpen. Doug Griffin delivered a pinch hit single to
give Rice another shot, and Jim lined a 3-2 pitch to left-center for
a double. Griffin made it all the way around and scored with the
winning run, 9 to 8.
Dwight Evans put the Sox on the board first with a home run in the
second inning. But Rogelio Moret was knocked out of the game, when
the Twins got off to make the game seem like it was going to be
runaway, with some of the cheapest hits that and seven runs in the
third inning.
Now down 7-1, Bob Heise continued his hot hitting with another hit in
the Sox third and scored on Bernie Carbo's double off the wall to cut
the Twins' lead to 7-2. Carlton Fisk's homer with Lynn aboard in the
sixth inning, further cut down the difference to 7 to 4.
Jim Willoughby contributed another respectable relief job, for 4 1/3
innings, but gave up four consecutive singles to make the score 8-4,
in the top of the eighth.
Rice went 2-for-5 and Lynn was 3-for-4 with a bunt single, and a line
drive double to go along with his home run, as well as nailing a
Twins baserunner at the plate in the ninth inning. Diego Segui took
over in the eighth inning and was credited with the win. |
