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REGGIE CLEVELAND |
THE "GOLD DUST TWINS" AND
A SEASON TO REMEMBER
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Reggie Cleveland's no-hitter
goes poof
August 8,
1975 ...
The Athletics only had three hits, but they were
enough. Gene Tenace
slugged a two-run homer after Reggie Jackson ended Reggie Cleveland's
no-hit bid with a solo homer in the seventh inning. The Oakland A's
ended up beating the Red Sox 3 to 2 in Oakland.
Cleveland had allowed only two baserunners on a walk and a hit
batsman before Jackson smashed his major league leading 28th homer of
the year, with two outs in the seventh, just over the outstretched
glove of Dwight Evans. Billy Williams then singled
up the middle and rode home on Tenace's homer. In under three minutes
and seven pitches, Cleveland
went from pitching a no-hitter to being down by a run.
The Sox were leading 2-0 by first scoring a run in the second inning,
on a double into the right field corner by Dwight Evans, who went to
second on Carlton Fisk's long foul fly to the same area and scored on
a single by Rico Petrocelli. Another run scored in the fifth inning
on a walk to Rico, a sacrifice bunt and a ball hit by Cecil Cooper,
that got by secondbaseman Phil Garner.
Rollie Fingers earned his 15th save to finish the victory for Ken
Holtzman by striking out four of the last five Sox batters. |
