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JIMMIE FOXX'S MVP SEASON
... June 6, 1938 ... Trailing 7 to 2 when the Red Sox went to bat in the seventh inning, they launched an attack on the Tigers and scored four runs to tie up the game. They then put over another run in the eighth and won it in the ninth, when Bobby Doerr singled to center and sent Jimmie Foxx over the plate with the deciding run. Although the Red Sox made 18 hits for a total of 24 bases, including a home run by Foxx, two doubles by Doc Cramer and one by Red Nonnenkamp, they had to make a last-ditch effort fight for their one run margin victory, 8 to 7. Cramer made two doubles and two singles, scored a run and brought one home, which tied the score in the eighth. Charlie Wagner was the starting pitcher for the Red Sox and pitched pretty well, all things considered. Charlie Gehringer got a home run off him in the third with two men on, but he remained on the job until he made way for a pinch-hitter in the seventh inning. That was Fabian Gaffke who started the comeback rally for the Red Sox. Johnny Wilson came in to work the last two innings and pitched to only six batters, who we set down as fast as they could come up, to got the win. The fielding was rather sloppy in spots, as the Red Sox piled up three errors, but they did make one outstanding play.
That occurred in the fifth inning, when Hank Greenberg laced a triple off the wall in right-center. Cramer fielded the ball on the rebound from the wall and threw it into Bobby Doerr who relayed it over to Joe Cronin. He saw that Greenberg had made the turn at third too wide and quickly threw the ball to Mike Higgins, who tagged Greenberg out before he could get back to the bag. The Red Sox seemed to not get returns on their hits. Cramer led off the first inning with a double and was left stranded. Cronin and Higgins, the first two up in the second inning, hit for singles and were left on base. The Tigers were the first to score. In the third inning, with one out Wagner walked and man who went to third on a double. They both crossed the plate when Gehringer parked the ball into the right-field bleachers. Jimmie Foxx belted his 14th homer the season in the fourth inning, with nobody on, to give the Sox their first run. A single by Dixie Walker and the triple by Greenberg gave the Tigers another run in the fifth. The Red Sox scored one in their half of the same inning on singles by Nonnenkamp and Ben Chapman, followed by a sacrifice fly to center by Foxx. That put the Sox behind by only a score of 4 to 2. The Tigers scored another run in the sixth on a double by Rudy York, a sacrifice bunt and another single. They scored two more runs in the seventh inning on a single by Walker, an error by Foxx, a single by York and a passed ball, upig the score 7 to 2. That's when the Sox started their uphill climb. In the bottom of the seventh, Gaffke was sent to bat for Wagner and singled to left. Cramer followed with another single and Nonnenkamp with a double that scored Gaffke. Slick Coffman came into pitch and walked Chapman. Foxx singled in Cramer and Nonnenkamp. Joe Cronin next hit into a doubleplay, but Chapman was able to score on Mike Higgins' single, who then got thrown out trying to stretch it into a double. The score was now only 7 to 6. In the bottom of the eighth Gene Desautels got a base hit and was sacrificed over by Wilson. Cramer doubled off the wall in right-center and Desautels scored the game tying run, 7 to 7. In the ninth Chapman walked and was forced at second by Foxx. Joe Cronin singled and Mike Higgins flew to right. Then Bobby Doerr came up and laced a clean base hit to center that brought Foxx home with the walkoff winning run 8-7. |
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