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BOBBY DOERR |
IN THE RUNNING UP
UNTIL
UNCLE SAM CALLS AGAIN ...
The Sox win on a walk-off base hit in the ninth
September
2, 1944 ... The
Red Sox sent Bobby Doerr off to his military duties with a memorable
win for him to look back on. The Red Sox went out and edged
the Philadelphia Athletics in a close game, by a score of 6 to 5. Roy
Partee won the game by singling off the left-field wall with the
bases loaded, and the score tied in the last of the ninth. Mike Ryba
got the win after George Woods had completed an uphill stretch by
allowing the score to be tied in the eighth-inning. Philly starter
Russ Christopher not only shut down the Red Sox from the second inning to the
ninth, but accounted for the fourth Athletics run in the seventh inning with a
home run.
The Red Sox scored five runs in the first inning, sending 10 men to the
plate. The inning including two singles, a double, a triple, a walk, a hit
batter and a balk. Lou Finney and George Metkovich, who hit in his 18th straight
game, accounted for the singles. Doerr got the triple and Jim Tabor was hit by a
pitch. Eddie Lake produced the double.
It looked like an easy Red Sox victory but the A's scored single runs off
Woods in the third, fourth, fifth, seventh and eighth innings as the 8000 fans
squirmed nervously in their seats. They tied the game in the eighth inning when
Lake threw an infield grounder into the Red Sox dugout allowing the tying run to
score. That's when Mike Ryba came into the game and shut things down.
Tom McBride opened up the Red Sox ninth-inning with a pop fly single to right
and stole second base when Bob Johnson struck out. Doerr got a pop fly single to
center that sent McBride over the third-base. Tabor was passed intentionally to
load the bases, before Partee launched his game-winning hit. |
