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DWIGHT EVANS |
THE "GOLD DUST TWINS" AND
A SEASON TO REMEMBER
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The Red Sox hold on to earn a shaky win
September 15, 1975 ...
The Red Sox held an 8-0 lead after two innings, then
staggered home. Dwight Evans drove in four runs with four hits, while
Fred Lynn and Jim Rice each drove in their 100th runs of the season,
leading the Red Sox over the Brewers, 9 to 7. Rogelio Moret earned
his 14th win with some help from Dick Pole, Jim Burton and Dick
Drago.
Evans' four RBIs came in the first two innings when the Sox roughed
up Milwaukee's starter, Jim Colborn for seven runs.
Rice knocked in the Sox first run with a first inning single that
sent home Cecil Cooper. Rice stole second and Evans' double scored
Rice and Fred Lynn, who had also singled. Rico Pertrocelli's base hit
scored Evans with the fourth run.
The Red Sox put up four more runs in the second inning. One when
Colborn hit Cooper with a pitch, allowed Doyle to reach on a base hit
and then walked Carl Yastrzemski. Pat Osborn replaced Colborn and
walked in a run with a free pass to Lynn. Rice's sacrifice fly scored
Doyle and Evans' single scored both Yaz and Lynn.
Down 8-0, Bill Sharp doubled for one run and Kurt Bevacqua scored on
an error for two Brewers' runs in the third inning. Robin Yount
smashed a homer in the fifth inning, for the third run. Darrell
Porter tripled and scored in the seventh for the fourth run. George
Scott belted his 30th homer in the eighth for the fifth run. In the
ninth Scott doubled in a run and Hank Aaron singled home another to
give the Brewers their seventh run.
Bob Montgomery's sacrifice fly scored Lynn with the bases loaded in
the seventh inning for, what turned out to be, an insurance ninth
run. Doug Griffin's hit made him 8-for-15 (.533 BA) as a pinch
hitter.
The Sox received another scare when Cecil Cooper was hit by a pitch
in the second inning and left the game when his elbow began to swell.
Fred Lynn also received a nasty jolt when he crashed against the wall
in the ninth inning trying to catch a ball hit by Don Money. |
