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The Sox rally for four runs
in the ninth inning |
ON THIS DATE (September 3, 1923) ... With 15,000 fans cheering wildly, the Red Sox made another thrilling ninth-inning rally and wiped out a lead of three runs, to win the first game of the doubleheader with Washington, by a score of 5 to 4. The great Walter Johnson had been rushed in to relieve Tom Zachary and it was a hit by an old teammate of his, Howie Shanks, who lined a single into centerfield that put over both the tying and winning runs. Washington won the second game 7 to 3 and therefore it was a 50-50 break on for the holiday doubleheader. Les Howe, who was purchased from the Waterbury club of the Eastern League, while he worked only one inning, got credit for the win. The only faced three men in the top of the ninth and struck out Patsy Gharrity. Three doubleplays in the first four innings prevented the Sox from getting away to a good lead, although they did score a run in the fourth inning on a single by Ira Flagstead, an error and an out at first, followed by a single from Shanks. Jack Quinn started for the Sox and faced only three men in each of the first four innings, one of whom got a hit but was out trying to stretch his single into a double. In the fifth inning Sam Rice doubled and made it all the way home on a sacrifice by Joe Judge and a sacrifice fly by Gharrity. The Nationals got two more runs in the sixth on a single by Nemo Leibold, a double by Roger Peckinpaugh and a base hit by Goose Goslin. That put them up by two runs, 3 to 1. They got one more in the seventh inning on a single by Bucky Harris, who stole second base and was sacrificed to third. He scored on a passed ball by Sox catcher Al DeVormer. Quinn retired in this inning, with two runners on base, and was relieved by George Murray. Norm McMillan made an unassisted doubleplay that got him out of the inning. Howe came into pitch in the eighth-inning when Val Picinich came in to bat for Quinn. He pitched to three men in the first half of the ninth and the Red Sox came up in the bottom half down 4 to 1. John Collins led off with a single and took second on a poor throw, when the ball was being returned to the pitcher. At that point the fun began as Flagstead singled to right. So too did George Burns and Collins scored the first run. Joe Harris doubled off the wall in left and scored Flagstead with the second run. Mike Menosky was put in to run for Harris and followed Burns across the plate with the winning run when Shanks singled past second base to end the game. |
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