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PHIL TODT |
The Red Sox score four runs
in the bottom
of the ninth inning for a 4-3 walk-off win
September 11, 1929
... Up 2-1 after six innings, the Sox and Red
Ruffing were slammed for six runs in the seventh inning. Red had been
pitching a great game up until then, but he was then belted for a
single, a double and two home runs, with a base on balls in the mix.
That was the sum of his day, sent to the showers losing 7 to 2.
But the Sox wiped out that five run lead over the next two innings.
Phil Todt started the comeback in the eighth inning with a home run
into the right field bleachers. Johnnie Heving, Elliott Bigelow and
Russ Scarritt all knocked out the hits that produced two more runs.
In the ninth inning, now down 7 to 5, Todt got things going in the
right direction again. He doubled after Bill Regan had reached on a
base hit. A ground ball out and a sacrifice fly by Alex Gaston tied
the game. A single by Bobbie Reeves in the 10th inning, a sacrifice
bunt and Jack Rothrock's line drive that dropped into left-center,
eased him home with the winning run, providing another rare thrilling
afternoon this day at Fenway. |
