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THE "GOLD DUST TWINS" AND
A SEASON TO REMEMBER
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Cooper's power and Rice's glove
beat the Twins
July 23, 1975
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Without a base hit, Jim Rice led the Sox in a 4 to 2
win over the Twins. His glove took two home runs away from
Minnesota's Glenn Borgmann with spectacular catches. One was a
leaping catch on which he grabbed the ball just as it cleared the
fence and then caught another on the dead run, spinning up against
the fence. And Rogelio Moret silenced the Twins bats when it
mattered, allowing seven hits.
A two run single in the second inning by Rick Burleson and a solo
homer that Cecil Cooper unloaded, to lead off the sixth inning helped
the Sox whip the Twins for the 9th time in 11 games this year.
Twins pitcher Jim Hughes was hurt by the two walks he issued in the
second inning to Rice and Petrocelli. Along with a base hit by Fisk,
the Sox put up two runs with Burleson's bases-loaded single. The
Twins got those runs back in the second inning on a single, a double,
a wild pitch and a sacrifice fly.
Denny Doyle started off the third inning with a double and with two
outs, scored on a muffed grounder by shortstop Danny Thompson, to put
the Sox back on top. Cooper's homer made the score 4-2. Moret then
cruised into the ninth inning but needed help from Jim Willoughby to
finish the Twins off. |
