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THE "GOLD DUST TWINS" AND
A SEASON TO REMEMBER
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Three straight walk-off wins for the Sox
July 10,
1975 ...
For the third straight game the Sox won in the last inning
with a walk-off. This time it was an 8 to 7 victory over the Texas
Rangers and their fourth win-in-a-row.
The Sox chugged into the ninth inning with a 7-4 lead, only to have
Jeff Burroughs pulverize a Reggie Cleveland fastball, with two outs
and two men on base, to tie up the game.
The Sox waited for two outs in their half of the ninth when Gaylord
Perry gave up an opposite field single to Denny Doyle. Cecil Cooper,
the next batter, saw a high slider nick of the Rangers catcher, Ron
Pruitt's glove for a passed ball, allowing Doyle to jog down to
second. Cooper then lined a single into left field and Doyle scored
the winning run, scoring just ahead of Mike Hargrove's throw to home.
It was the third straight game in which Cooper had been a part of a
last inning rally.
Earlier in the game, Fred Lynn was the star of the show. Getting his
7th hit in his last nine at bats, Lynn knocked in four runs with a
third inning single that scored Carl Yastrzemski, who led off the
inning with a double, and then with a three-run homer in the fourth.
He upped his league-leading RBI total to 65.
Jim Rice's two run double in the first inning, put the Sox out front,
2-0. Bernie Carbo had singled and Lynn and doubled in front of him.
After Lynn's RBI single in the third, Lenny Randle's double, that
scored Jim Fregosi, cut the Sox lead to 3-2.
Lynn's homer put the Sox up 7-2 going into the fifth inning, but Sox
rookie pitcher, Steve Barr gave up a double to Cesar Tovar and an RBI
single to Toby Harrah for one run. Reggie Cleveland came in from the
bullpen and coasted until the eighth inning, when Randle knocked out
a homer to cut the Sox lead to 7-4. Burroughs homer tied up the game
in the ninth.
Perry, who had whipped the Sox thirteen straight times, coasted along
until the bottom of the inning. |
