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Jody Reed leads the Sox in a late rally April 15, 1992 ... The Red Sox posted a 6-5 win over the Baltimore Orioles. Butch Hobson had lifted pitcher Mike Gardiner in the seventh inning with two outs after Chris Hoiles singled in the hole, just out of the reach of Tim Naehring. Hobson brought in Peter Hoy, a reliever in whom he has tremendous faith. Three batters later, Gardiner's 4-1 lead was a 4-4 tie. Of course, Hobson didn't have any choice in the matter. Gardiner developed back spasms that got progressively worse, as he informed Hobson and pitching coach Rich Gale. After a Mark McLemore pinch double that scored Hoiles, a Brady Anderson double that scored McLemore and a Joe Orsulak single that scored Anderson, Hoy and the lead were gone, and the Red Sox had to scramble to salvage their first Fenway win in two outings. This decision featured the good, the bad and the ugly. The good included Greg Harris' 1 1/3 scoreless innings in relief of Hoy. Jody Reed's bases-loaded, two-run bloop single in the eighth that won the game. Two hits apiece by Tom Brunansky and Mo Vaughn. Gardiner's 6 2/3-inning effort, in which he allowed two runs on five hits, struck out five and walked one. Tim Naehring's sacrifice bunt in the eighth, pushed runners to second and third before Reed's hit off Mark Williamson. Reed also helped when he forced a long rundown on Ellis Burks' grounder to third in Boston's three-run sixth. Though Reed was trapped off third, his elusiveness enabled Sox runners to advance to second and third with one out. Following an intentional walk to Phil Plantier, Brunansky's sacrifice fly and Vaughn's two-run double gave the Sox a 4-1 lead. Harris stretched his scoreless streak to 8 1/3 innings at the start of the season. He took the Sox off the hook when he retired Cal Ripken on a fly to left, ending the seventh. In the eighth, he mowed the Orioles down 1-2-3 and struck out two. Jeff Reardon earned his first save of the season, surrendering a home run to Hoiles in the ninth but retiring the final two batters. The bad was rookie Hoy, who relied solely on a sinker that usually is reliable. The ugly? The assault on Mike Greenwell by the fans. Every time up, he was booed. After Anderson's triple off the wall in the third, he was booed. Greenwell did not pursue the ball after it struck the wall, feeling it was Burks' responsibility. Burks lost an Anderson fly to center in the sun in the fifth that went for a triple and tied the score, 1-1. And how about two errors by Ripken at shortstop? Tape it, you'll never see it again. Ripken's third-inning error on a hard Reed one-hopper that slid underneath his glove scored Naehring with the first run off Orioles starter Ben McDonald. |
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