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THE "GOLD DUST TWINS" AND
A SEASON TO REMEMBER
...
1975
WORLD SERIES, GAME #3
The Red
Sox win the American League pennant
October 7,
1975 ...
Carl Yastrzemski knocked out two hits and had another
brilliant play in the field as the Red Sox completed a sweep of the
Oakland Athletics by a score of 5 to 3, wrapping up the American
League pennant.
The Red Sox got two unearned runs which provided the difference. The
first Sox run in the fourth inning was the result of an error by
Claudell Washington. Washington raced in on Fred Lynn's two out line
drive and the ball bounced out of his glove, after he appeared to
make a waist-high catch. With Lynn on second, Rico Petrocelli lined
Ken Holtzman's next pitch into center field, bringing Lynn home.
The Sox went on to score three more runs in the fifth inning, driving
Holtzman out of the game. With one out, Rick Burleson doubled over
the third base bag and was brought home on Denny Doyle's single to
right. Yastrzemski's single to right sent Doyle to third. Carlton
Fisk, now facing Jim Todd, looped his first pitch over the head of
Bert Campaneris as Doyle raced home. Paul Lindblad came in to face
Lynn and he uncorked a wild pitch that brought in Yaz, making the
score 4 to 0.
Rick Wise kept the A's off the scoreboard and had not allowed a
runner to reach second base, until the sixth, when Sal Bando's ground
ball scored Cesar Tovar, who had started the inning with a free pass
and moved to third on Washington's baser hit. Wise got out of the jam
by striking out Reggie Jackson on three pitches, to end the inning.
The Sox added their fifth run in the eighth when Fisk led off with a
single, was sacrificed up to second, and scored on Cecil Cooper's
single to center.
The A's mounted a charge in the bottom of the eighth. Cesar Tovar led
off with a base hit and moved to second on a ground out. Washington's
grounder got by Doyle, putting runners on first and third. Then Bando
and Jackson hit consecutive singles to score the two runners, but Yaz
made a sliding stop of Jackson's line single, keeping Bando at third
and Jackson a first. Then Dick Drago came in and got Joe Rudi to hit
into a 6-4-3 doubleplay ending the inning.
Two ground balls and a pop-up, surrounding a walk to Billy North, in
the ninth, ended the season for the Oakland Athletics. |
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