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The Red Sox break 16 records in a 17 run inning |
ON THIS DATE (June 18, 1953) ... Barbs were exchanged between the Jimmy Piersall and former Sox players Matt Batts and Fred Hatfield before the game started. When the Red Sox outfielder blasted a hit to break a 3 to 3 tie in the sixth inning and reached second base, he got visibly angry from comments made from the Detroit dugout. Piersall kept yelling back until the Tiger thirdbaseman, Ray Boone, came over and calmed him down. It was a closely contested game for six innings. The Red Sox took a three run lead off Ned Garver in the second inning on four singles and an error. Walt Dropo hit a home run with one aboard in the fourth to put the Tigers back in the game. Detroit then tied it at 3 to 3 in the top of the sixth inning on a walk and a pair of singles off Ellis KIinder. Garver started his downfall in the sixth by walking Johnny Lipon. With one out, Billy Goodman singled and Lipon went to third. Piersall broke up the tie with a single to right. Lipon scored from third with one run and when Bob Nieman fumbled the ball, Piersall took second and Goodman scored, making it 5 to 3. Then came the seventh-inning. Sammy White singled to short right field and Stephens followed him with another single. White took third and Stephens stole second. Umphlett singled to right to score both White and Stephens. After Lipon struck out, George Kell doubled off the left-field wall and Umphlett scooted over to third-base. Billy Goodman drew a walk to fill the bases and Piersall lined a single to right, to score Umphlett and Kell. Dick Gernert then hit his 12th homer of the year into the screen, to score Goodman and Piersall. Kinder followed with a base hit and Sammy White walked. Dick Weik came into pitch for Detroit and his first pitch went wild, allowing both Kinder and White to move up a base. Gene Stephens blooped a single to right to score the two runners, before Kell lined out to Dick Lund in left-field for the second out. Goodman lined a single to center to score Umphlett and Ted Lepcio went in to run for him. Earl Harris now came into pitch and Al Zarilla batted for Piersall, drawing a walk. Gernert drew another walk to bring home Lipon and Kinder singled to center, scoring both Lepcio and Zarilla. White next singled to center to score Gernert. Stephens singled to right to score Kinder and Umphlett singled to center to score White. Lipon walked to fill the bases before George Kell flew out to end the inning. That was 17 runs on 14 hits, six base on balls and three men left. Sixteen all time or modern-day major league baseball records were either toppled or tied in the process. The 1883 Chicago Nationals and 1952 Brooklyn Dodgers had scored 15 runs in one inning. The record of 23 men coming to bat in one inning tied the mark set by the 1883 Chicago team. Sammy White scored three runs in the same inning to tie Tom Burns and Ed Williamson of Chicago. Gene Stephens had three hits in the inning to tie Ed Pfiefer, Burns and Williamson. White, Tom Umphlett and Stephens tied a record for most hitters coming up three times in an inning, set by Pfiefer, Burns, Williamson, Fred Goldsmith and Billy Sunday of Chicago. White scored three runs to break a record for runs scored in an inning. Stephens' three hits in an inning was a new record. Reaching base three times in an inning by White, Umphlett and Stephens equaled the record set by Pee Wee Reese in 1952. Eleven singles in one inning tied a record set by the 1925 St. Louis Cardinals. Their 24 singles in the game tied a record held by the 1928 Cleveland Indians. Fourteen hits in one inning broke the record of twelve, held by three teams. |
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