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The Sox explode against the Orioles August 15, 1982 ... For 6 1/2 innings, the Red Sox and Orioles played dueling banjos. Boston's tandem of Mike Torrez and Bob Stanley and Baltimore's Scott McGregor had 30,639 fans wondering if they'd have to wait until dark to see a run cross home plate. But in the bottom of the seventh the Red Sox sent 14 men to the plate, pounded 6 singles and 2 doubles, drew 3 intentional walks and scored 8 times. The 1/2-inning aberration was more than Stanley needed on this otherwise calm afternoon as he and the Red Sox cruised to an important 8-0 victory and pulled to within 4 1/2 games of the first-place Brewers. Stanley was in the game because of a scary Ken Singleton line drive which clanged off the side of Torrez' head in the top of the fourth. Incredibly, Torrez stayed in the game to get Eddie Murray on an inning-ending, double-play grounder. When Torrez complained of a headache after the inning, he was taken to Beth Israel hospital for X-rays (negative) and replaced by Stanley. Meanwhile, McGregor seemed more dazed than either Torrez or Stanley. Baltimore's crafty lefthander dazzled the Red Sox for six innings and took a one-hit shutout into the Kafkaesque seventh. The Sox had managed nothing more than three walks and an infield single when Tony Perez strode to the plate to lead off the eight- run inning. He singled to left and moved to second when Carney Lansford (5-32, .152 life time vs. McGregor) delivered another single to left. Playing for one run, Ralph Houk sent Wade Boggs in to run for Perez. When Dave Stapleton popped to second, it looked like McGregor might escape unscathed. The production started when Reid Nichols drove a 1-2 inside fastball toward the left-field wall. Left fielder John Lowenstein tried to decoy the runners, but Boggs was going all the way and scored easily after Nichols' towering fly scraped The Wall for a double. Weaver ordered Gary Allenson walked intentionally. Glenn Hoffman (who enjoyed his first two-hit game since July 28) scored Lansford and Nichols with a hesitation-swing single to right to make it 3-0. Weaver called for Tim Stoddard and ordered him to walk Jerry Remy. The strategy backfired again when Dwight Evans delivered a two- run double to right. Baltimore's outfielders kept overthrowing cutoff men, setting up more intentional walks. Weaver went for the hat trick and tied a major league record (three intentional walks in one inning) when he had Stoddard walk Rice after Evans' hit. Boggs stroked a bases-loaded single to left to make it 6-0 and Weaver summoned rookie Mike Boddicker. Lansford and Stapleton greeted Boddicker with RBI singles to complete the carnage that saw all three batters who were intentionally walked score. It was the Red Sox' biggest inning of the year, and also the most runs allowed by the Orioles in any inning this season. Stanley allowed only four hits and no walks in five strong innings. |
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