The Red Sox were floundering and needed something big. Carl Yastrzemski
answered the call with one of the longest home runs hit out of Fenway Park.
His three-run homer in the eighth-inning carried the Sox to a 6 to 2 victory
over the Cleveland Indians. With the score tied at 2 to 2, Yaz hit a rising
line drive through a crosswind, over the back wall of the centerfield
bleachers, with two men on base.
Yaz was not the only hero in the Red Sox win. All of the Red Sox runs came
from the long ball, as Tony Conigliaro and Rico Petrocelli also slammed home
runs.
Only six other players had cleared the wall to the right of the flagpole in
center. The others were Jimmie Foxx, Jim Rice, Babe Ruth, Hank Greenberg,
Mickey Mantle and Bill Skowron.
Conigliaro, is on a torrid home run streak with six in his last seven games.
He tied the game with a two run blast off Indians starter, Dean Chance, in the
sixth inning. Petrocelli hit a bases empty shot that capped the four run eighth
inning.
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