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The Red Sox score three in
the ninth and walk-off with an 8 to 7 victory |
ON THIS DATE (May 21, 1926) ... The Chicago White Sox battled back from a 4-0 first inning deficit to the Red Sox, but fell in the ninth inning, when the Red Sox drove home three runs to walk-off with an 8 to 7 win. Down 7-5, Ira Flagstead doubled to start off the ninth inning. The next two batters were retired before Phil Todt lined a single to center to score Flaggy. Then Fred Bratschi walloped a double over the head Johnny Mostil in center field and Todt sprinted home with the tying run. Ted Lyons now took the mound to replace Ted Blankenship for Chicago, but Fred Haney lined one of his pitches to center and Bratschi dashed home with the game winner. The Red Sox put up four runs in the first inning. Roy Carlyle singled with two outs and Todt brought him home with a triple. Old friend Everett Scott fumbled twice on grounders by Bratschi and Fred Haney to let Todt in. Mike Herrera's double to right next scored Bratschi and Haney. In the second Chicago's Earl Sheely slammed the first of his three doubles and scored on a double by Bibb Falk. A ground ball and a sac fly then allowed Falk to score, to make the score, 4 to 2. The White Sox added their third run in the fourth inning on another double by Sheely and a base hit by Spence Harris. The red hot Sheely next slugged two-run homer over the wall in the fifth inning, that put Chicago out front, 5 to 4. After Eddie Collins singled in the seventh inning, Sheely banged out another double off the fence to score him with the White Sox' sixth run. The Red Sox cut Chicago's lead back to a single run in their half of the seventh. With two outs, Blankenship walked Todt and Bratschi doubled off the wall to score him, but the White Sox got that run back in the eighth to go up 7 to 5. That set the stage for the Red Sox dramatic rally in the ninth. |
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