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THE "GOLD DUST TWINS" AND
A SEASON TO REMEMBER
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Luis Tiant pitches a near no-hitter until the 8th
September 11, 1975 ...
Luis Tiant threw hitless ball until two outs in the seventh
inning and finished with a three-hit, 3 to 1 victory over the Tigers,
striking out ten batters and walking just one. Sidelined with
tendonitis and then back spasms, it was Loooie's first win since in
almost a month and the first time he had pitched in ten days. He had
hoped to make it thru just five or six innings.
A pair of hits in the eighth and Bob Baldwin's ninth inning homer
spoiled, what could have been, a perfect day. After Aurelio Rodriguez
and Tom Veryzer ended Tiant's no-hitter, he struck out Gates Brown to
end the eighth inning. He had set down the first 14 batters before
walking Bill Freehan in the fifth. By that time the Sox had the game
well in hand.
Jim Rice tripled off the center field wall and scored on Carlton
Fisk's ground out, and then Rico Petrocelli and Dwight Evans singled
ahead of Rick Burleson's grounder that scored Rico. Cecil Cooper
walked in the fourth, was moved over to third on Denny Doyle's base
hit and came home on Carl Yastrzemski's base hit, putting the Sox
ahead 3-0.
Baldwin curled a flyball around the Pesky Pole for a ninth inning
home run, but Luis got the next three batters to end his great day. |
