From December 16th to January 28th, the Germans staged their last major offensive known as the "Battle of the Bulge". In January, the Russians liberated the concentration camp at Auschwitz. In the United States, the Office of Defense and Transportation deemed that all travel by major league teams had to be cut by 25%. Therefore the All Star Game, which was scheduled to be played at Fenway Park, was not scheduled. Instead, eight simultaneous interleague games were scheduled to be played. Even though it was apparent that the war in Europe would soon be over, many young men were still joining up to serve their country. The director of War Mobilization, James F Byrnes, had all deferred draftees have their cases re-examined. Two of those from the Red Sox were Jim Tabor, the last eligible player left from the team that played before the war started, and catcher Roy Partee. As they were being called up, a young Red Sox pitching prospect named Dave Ferriss was being mustered out of the Air Force because of his asthma. Corporal Ferriss had spent six weeks in the hospital at Randolph Field before being discharged in late February. Back at home, with his own doctor, Ferriss bounced back and was asked to try out for the Red Sox in Louisville, before being brought up right after the season started. Lou Finney, who had returned to the Sox last year, decided to retire again to his farm in Alabama. With the depletion of even more players, Joe Cronin was preparing himself to play more often. In early March the Americans crossed the Rhine and entered Germany and American forces in the Pacific recaptured Manila and captured Iwo Jima on March 26th. On April 1st, American forces surrounded Okinawa. When the Sox opened up spring training in Pleasantville, New Jersey, only a handfull of players showed up because many were reluctant to leave their war-related winter jobs and risk being called into the military. Infielder Eddie Lake spent the winter working in a defense plant in California. Without Bobby Doerr and Jim Tabor, the Sox needed him to come back and play. Bob Garbark, a career minor leaguer, was a catcher who would play in the most games this season. His contract had been purchased by the Sox top farm club in Louisville, and he was asked to come to camp. Jackie Tobin was also another Louisville prospect whose contract was purchased by the Sox. Ben Steiner had batted .316 for Louisville and he too was to called up play for the Sox. Bob Johnson almost got killed while traveling to spring training. While coming from Philadelphia on a packed train, with no room to sit, he stood outside between two cars that somehow became uncoupled. He fell between the two but was able to pull himself up holding on to a railing. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died and was succeeded by Harry Truman on April 12th. Jackie Tobin impressed Joe Cronin by going 2-for-4 with a double on April 11th, in the first game of the five "City Series" with the Braves, prior to the start of the regular season. In the second game he went 3-for-5 with a home run on April 12th. Out of respect for FDR, the remaining "City Series" games were cancelled. Integration of baseball was something that was not considered before the war. But the war changed baseball along with the rest of the country on how they regarded negroes. While many people didn't think about this, it became apparent that if black Americans could fight and die for their country, then why shouldn't they enjoy the freedoms they fought for. One of those who was adamant about keeping blacks out of baseball was Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis. But he had died and was replaced by the more liberal senator from Kentucky, Happy Chandler on April 24th and after that, all the major league teams were slowly re-considering their stance on the subject. The war had taken much of the talent away from baseball and there was another population, who were good enough to play in the majors and were being overlooked, in the Negro Leagues. In Boston, one of the men who wanted baseball integrated, was city councillor Isadore Muchnick, who threatened to block the renewal of the license to play Sunday baseball for both the Red Sox and Braves in 1945, if they did not give black ballplayers the chance to make the teams. Therefore, Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs, Sam Jethroe of the Cleveland Buckeyes, and Marvin Williams of the Philadelphia Stars, were all invited to try out at Fenway Park along with a bunch of white ballplayers, on April 16th. Coach Hugh Duffy ran the tryout as Joe Cronin watched. The tryout lasted about an hour and half and Duffy took the players, as a group, and praised them all, saying the club would be in touch. As they were leaving the field however, a voice supposedly boomed out from the back of the grandstand, yelling "Get those niggers off the field !!!". Was it GM Eddie Collins or was it Tom Yawkey? Regardless, the Red Sox were the last team to accept integration and that mistake would haunt them forever.
Five days after Harry Truman became president, the Red Sox opened their season in New York on April 17th. Joe Cronin started for the Sox at third base and got two singles. George Metkovich set a new major league record for firstbasemen, committing three errors in the same inning. Ben Steiner, filling in for Bobby Doerr at second base, homered in the seventh inning to give the Sox a 4-1 lead. But the Sox ended up losing to the Yankees, 8 to 4. On April 19th, while sliding into third base, Cronin broke his leg. He returned a couple of weeks later on crutches but would never play again in a major league game. Jackie Tobin took over as the Sox regular thirdbaseman after that. After losing their first eight games of the season, the Sox finally hit pay dirt in Philly on April 28th. Bob Johnson homered and Pete Fox knocked out four hits against an assortment of A's pitchers, to give the Red Sox an 8 to 4 win. Rookie Dave Ferriss made his piching debut on April 29th, at Philadelphia in the first game of a doubleheader. At first he couldn't find the plate and walked the first two men he faced and threw 15 consecutive balls without a strike. Finally, a ball that deflected off him to Skeeter Newsome started a doubleplay that got him out of the inning. He walked two more men in the second inning but was still shutting out the A's. He got three hits himself and ended up with a 2-0 win. The Sox won the second game in 13 innings, 6 to 3. Ben Steiner (.357 BA) and George Metkovich each had three hits. The Russians captured Berlin and Adolph Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker on April 30th.
The Sox won their first game at Fenway on May 1st. Skeeter Newsome hit in his 11th straight game with a double that put the Red Sox out front in their 5-4 win over Washington. Then Jim Wilson, another rookie pitcher, blinded the Washington Nats the next game, with a 4-0 four-hitter. Dave Ferriss' second outing was just as impressive as his first. He shut out the Yankees at Fenway Park, on May 6th, 5-0. He also was 2-for-3 at the plate with a double. Two days later on May 8th, (VE-Day) Germany surrendered and the war in Europe ended. Jim Wilson pitched another great game in his second start. He lost the game on May 9th, in the ninth inning, on a mental mistake by the Sox infield, 2 to 1, in Cleveland. Rookie Lloyd Christopher got three singles in four times up against the Indians, and Pete Fox also had three hits, with the Sox winning 8 to 4 against the Indians, on May 11th.
On May 13th, Dave Ferriss continued to shut out his opponent. This time he pitched against the Tigers in Detroit and finally surrendered the first run in his major league career in the fifth inning, giving him 22 1/3 scoreless innings at the start of his career, and a new American League record. The previous record of 19 2/3 inning was set in 1911 by an other Red Sox pitcher, Buck O'Brien. The Sox won Ferriss' game 8 to 2, the first game of a doubleheader, but lost the second game. In his next start on May 18th in Chicago, Ferriss shutout the White Sox on four hits, 2 to 0. He had now pitched 34 of 36 scoreless innings in the big leagues. Bob Johnson supported him with two doubles that scored the two Red Sox runs. When the St. Louis Browns scored a run in the seventh inning of a game they played at Fenway on May 23rd, Ferriss had another scoreless inning streak ended at 17 innings. His catcher this day was Bob Garbark, who enjoyed a four-for-four day at the plate. Ben Steiner came to the plate the next day with the score knotted at 3-all in the sixth inning and two Sox runners on base. He proceeded to thump one over the right field fence. The Sox beat the Browns again, 8 to 6. Ferriss (6-0, 0.50 ERA) tossed a one-hitter on May 27th against the White Sox, winning 7-0 in the first game of a doubleheader. Every player except Ferriss, got a hit and Tom McBride had three of them. Emmett O'Neill followed it up with a masterful effort in the second game, winning 2-1 with a two-hitter. Bob Johnson's 5th homer was the big blow for the Bosox. Rex Cecil's last major league game came on May 28th. He lost to the White Sox and was optioned to Louisville. Pitcher Joe Bowman was also put on waivers after three bad outings and was claimed by the Cincinnati Reds. On that day, Eddie Lake started a 10 game hitting streak. Pete Fox and Bob Johnson provided the punch in the game with the White Sox the next day. In the fifth inning with the score tied at 3-to-3, Johnson whipped a triple down the first base line. Fox followed with another liner to the same area and scored on Tobin's sac fly. Eddie Lake and George Metkovich each racked up three hits in the game. On May 30th the Sox and Indians played a Memorial Day doubleheader at Fenway. Ben Steiner had two hits in the first game but lost a pop-up in the sun which allowed Cleveland to score three runs in the ninth inning and win the game, 4 to 3. Steiner redeemed himself in the second game however, going 4 for 5 and driving in two of the runs in a 6-7 win for the Sox. On May 31st, Dave Ferriss had pitched 10 2/3 hitless innings before the Indians' lead-off batter in the fourth inning, lined a single thru the box. Johnny Lazor took over for Pete Fox in right field after Fox was injured. He went 2-for-4 with two doubles as the Sox beat the Indians, 6 to 2.
On June 1st, Lazor was 2-for-4 again with another double against the Tigers in a 6-4 win. Emmett O'Neill helped his own cause with a three-run homer that gave the Sox a four run lead in the second inning. Lazor blasted a fast ball into the right field stands with two on the next day. Meanwhile Clem Hausmann limited Detroit to six singles and an unearned run, pitching himself out of two dangerous situations, winning the game 5 to 1. On June 3rd, Jackie Tobin had a game-winning hit, breaking a 3-3 tie in the eighth inning. Then Dave Ferriss took on a different role, when he came in to relieve Jim Wilson at the start of the ninth inning and got his first save with the Sox winning 4-3. Thus far in the homestand, Bob Johnson hit .379 with four doubles, two triples and two home runs. Eddie Lake had 13 hits in his last 31 plate appearances. Ferriss wobbled in almost every inning on June 6th. He gave up 14 hits, walked three and hit a batter, but was able to win his 8th straight, 5-2 in the first game of a doubleheader with the Philadelphia A's. In the second game the Sox pulled out a 3 to 2 victory. The Sox spotted the Athletics two runs but came back to win on Ben Steiner's triple in the eighth inning. The next day, on June 7th, down 4-3 against Philly, Pete Fox doubled off the wall in the seventh inning to drive in the tying run. In the tenth, after Bob Johnson walked and Fox singled, Bob Garbark drove in the winning run with a base hit for a 5 to 4 walk-off win. George Metkovich rocketed a home run with Eddie Lake on board in the seventh inning at Yankees Stadium on June 8th. It provided the Red Sox with the 6-4 winning margin over the Yankees. Clem Hausmann threw the first shutout of his career on June 14th in Philadelphia, winning 1-0 on three hits. The Sox scored the winning run in the 9th inning on Bob Johnson's base hit which was followed by a triple from Leon Culberson.
Dave Ferriss beat the Washington Nationals on June 15th, 6 to 5 in a 14 inning marathon. In doing, so he had then defeated every team in the American League the first time he faced them. The Nats got to him for five runs in the fifth inning, but he then shut them out for the next nine innings on three hits. Johnson and Lazor tied the game up in the seventh inning on back-to-back doubles. Lazor later brought Metkovich home with the game winner in the 14th with a base hit. Emmett O'Neill pitched a great game on June 17th in Washington, in the first of a doubleheader. He held the Nats to six scattered hits and won, 2 to 1. Leon Culberson doubled in the 6th inning with two men on, for the only two runs the Sox needed. Bob Johnson went 3-for-3 in the second tilt, bringing in two of the runs in a 7-1 win. George Metkovich also had three hits including a double and a triple. On June 18th, pitcher Bill Zuber was sold to the Sox by the Yankees. Back at Fenway, on June 19th, Clem Hausmann pitched another 1-0 shutout. This time it was over the Yankees, allowing only three hits. Just one runner was able to reach second base against him. Lazor singled home Eddie Lake in the first inning for the only run the Sox would need. Three hits by Johnson and a homer from Lake paced the Sox in a 10-5 beating of Washington on June 22nd. More importantly on that day, Okinawa was captured by the Marines as a base for an invasion of Japan. Dave Ferriss chalked up his tenth win on June 23rd against Washington. It wasn't easy as the Sox had to come back in the eighth inning to take the lead in the first game of a doubleheader. Tom McBride tripled, Skeeter Newsome doubled home McBride with the tying run. He was sacrificed to third and scored the 6-5 game winner on Jim Bucher's sac fly. Catcher Fred Walters had the best day of his career in the second game, going 2-for-4 and drove in three of the Sox five runs in a 6-5 loss. Clem Hausmann had his streak of 20 scoreless innings ended when he was knocked out of the box in the fifth inning. Dolph Camilli, who had played for ten years with the Dodgers, and has the National League's MVP in 1941. He retired in 1943 after being traded and managed the Oakland Oaks of the PCL until he was fired in June. He decided to come to Boston and play for his old friend Joe Cronin. Eddie Lake doubled and homered as two of his four hits against the White Sox in Chicago, giving the Bosox an 11-9 victory on June 27th. Dave Ferriss beat the White Sox 4-2 and took things into his own hands to win it on June 29th. In the ninth inning, with the game tied, Ferriss smacked a homer into the right field stands. Meanwhile at home on that day, the Boston Royal Giants of the Negro League hosted the Cuban All Stars from New York in an exhibition game at Fenway Park and lost 8 to 5. Former Royal Giants star pitcher, Will "Canon Ball" Jackman pitched a great game in relief and knocked out a double and a single in two times up.
A five run ninth inning rally with two out, gave the Sox a 7-4 win the the second game of a doubleheader in St. Louis on July 1st. It also gave Ferriss his 12th victory in relief. Dolph Camilli, making his first start for the Sox, got a single that tied the score. The Browns won the first game, 7 to 3. Jim Wilson five-hit the Tigers in Detroit, shutting them out 4-0, on July 3rd. George Metkovich led the offensive charge with four hits, driving in two runs. On July 4th, Jackie Tobin helped Ferriss win his 13th game in Detroit. His single scored Dolph Camilli from second, in the ninth inning of the opening game of a doubleheader, making the score 4-2. Hank Greenberg homered in the bottom of the ninth but the Sox won 4 to 3. The Sox lost the second game, 5 to 2. After losing four straight games, the Sox came from behind in the sixth inning with three runs at Cleveland on July 7th to win 8-6.
Ferriss scored his fifth shutout against the Indians, 6-0, and knocked in the first two runs with a triple on July 8th. The Tribe beat the Sox in the second game of the doubleheader, 4-2. On July 10th, with the All Star Game cancelled, the Red Sox and Braves met in the "United War Fund" exhibition game at Fenway Park. The Sox won the game 8 to 1. Jim Wilson pitched and batted the Red Sox to a 2-1 decision over the Tigers at Fenway on July 12th. He singled and scored a run in the third inning. Another single brought home the winning run in the fourth. Eddie Lake's first inning homer and four runs in the fourth, allowed Dave Ferris to chalk up his 15th win on July 13th, 5 to 1. Emmett O'Neill walked ten batters but miraculously won a game the next day, 7 to 1 and swept the league leading Detroit Tigers. When the Sox clipped the Indians, 6 to 4 in a rain-shortened game on July 15th, it marked four straight wins. They cut the Tigers lead to just 2 1/2 games, but that would be as close as the Red Sox would get this season. Dave Ferriss was one out awat from another shutout, but won his 16th game, 6 to 2 against the White Sox on July 18th. He next won his eight straight game in his next outing. It was the second time he won eight straight. On July 29th, Bob Johnson enjoyed a 4-for-4 day including two doubles, and knocked out his 2000th career hit in the process.
The month of August had the Red Sox overcoming a five run deficit. They rallied in the seventh inning, scoring four runs and beating the Yankees 7 to 5. The Sox won 15 to 4 on August 4th, in the second game of a doubleheader against the Nats in Washington. Tom McBride brought in seven of the runs on three hits. He entered the record books in the 12-run fourth inning, by knocking in six runs in one inning. It tied the record held by Bob Johnson, when he played with the Athletics in 1937.
WWII amputee hero Bert Shepard, pitched in this, his one and only game in the majors for the Nats. He pitched the last five innings and held the Sox to three hits. Sox rookie Ty LaForest had two hits including a double, scoring two runners. He had three hits for the day in his major league debut. On August 6th and 9th, the two atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Pitcher Jim Wilson was struck in the head by a ball hit by Hank Greenberg on August 8th in Detroit. He was knocked unconscious and taken to the hospital. He had suffered a fractured skull and was successfully operated on the next day. He was discharged on August 24th and his season was obviously over. Rookie pitcher Randy Heflin pitched a four-hit shut out against the Tigers in Detroit on August 10th, 9 to 0. It was his first major league win. Leon Culberson drove in five runs with a homer and a single. On August 11th, Johnny Lazor enjoyed his best game, driving in all four runs for the Sox in a 5 to 4 loss in Detroit, with two home runs. Dave Ferriss dazzled the Cleveland Indians on August 12th, 7 to 1. He struck out a batter on three called strikes with a runner on third, franned four straight, and let only one runner get to third. In the seventh inning with the game tied, he also crashed a two-run single to right center that drove in the game winning run. Ty LaForest had three hits in four times up in this, the first game of a doubleheader. The Sox lost the second game. On August 15th (VJ-Day) Japan surrendered. Bob Garbark played his last game in the majors against the Browns on August 19th. He stayed in St. Louis to have a surgeon look at his shoulder, which had suffered from a neurotic condition. He had batted .261 in 68 games. The Sox and Browns split a doubleheader in St. Louis on August 21st. Otis Clark pitched a four-hitter in the opener but lost. In the second game, however, down two runs in the fifth inning, with two outs Ty LaForest singled, Leon Culberson tripled, Bob Johnson singled and Johnny Lazor tripled to give the Sox a 4-3 win. But the western road trip saw the Red Sox return with a 8-19 record dropping to 13 1/2 games behind the Tigers in seventh place. Dave Ferriss won his 20th against the Athletics, while the Red Sox swept a doubleheader on August 26th. Ty LaForest collected five hits, including two home runs. His first homer bounced off the right field wall and landed in the grandstand to tie the game in the ninth inning. Ferriss won his own game in the 10th inning with a single that scored George Metkovich for a walk-off 4 to 3 victory. Vic Johnson shut out the Yankees in New York on August 29th, 1-0. He allowed the Yanks only four hits. It was LaForest who scored the only run of the game in the fourth inning. LaForest had three hits, including a triple, in the second game of a doubleheader against the Athletics in Philly, on August 31st, that the Sox won 4 to 2. Tom McBride also tripled as one of the two hits he collected.
On September 1st, catcher Frankie Pytlak was discharged from the Navy and returned in time to play for the Red Sox. He appeared in nine games and got a pair of base hits. Otis Clark outpitched Bob Feller on September 5th, beating the Indians, 2 to 1. He even got a hit of Feller. Jim Bucher clipped a two-run single in the first inning and bashed a two-run triple in the second inning. Skeeter Newsome slapped out two singles and a run scoring double also. The hits helped George Woods beat the Indians 9 to 3 at Fenway on September 6th. In the game with the Indians the next day, Mike Ryba sent the Tribe's players back to their bench on just three hits. It was his first start of the season and he won it with a 1-0 shutout. With two outs in the ninth, Bob Johnson walked and moved to second on Tom McBride's base hit. Skeeter Newsome rifled a shot between second and third and Johnson sprinted for home. Luckily the throw home hit Johnson in the back to give Ryba an unusual win indeed. In the final game with Cleveland on September 8th, the Sox banged out 18 hits and drubbed the Indians, 9 to 4. Johnny Lazor, hitting in his 12th straight game, had four of them and Leon Culberson notched three safeties in three times up. Eddie Lake banged out the Sox' 50th homer of the year. That's as many as Jimmie Foxx hit in 1950 by himself. Dave Ferriss crashed a pair of doubles and a single, scored three runs, drove in two more and also picked up his 21st win, beating the Detoit Tigers at Fenway, on September 10th. Ty LaForest opened the first game of a September 17th against the White Sox with a triple that precipitated a four run inning and an 8-4 win. Lake had three hits in the game. Metkovich put together three hits in the second game, but the Red Sox lost that one, 4-2. On September 19th, Jackie Tobin drove in three runs, including the tying and go-ahead runs in the bottom of the eighth, beating the Athletics 11-10 at Fenway in the first game of a doubleheader. Otis Clark pitched his best game of the year in the second game, beat ing A's, 3 to 0. The Sox swept the A's thanks to great pitching by Randy Heflin, combined with timely hitting by Dolph Camilli and winning 2 to 0. Lake's 14th inning double won a game against the Yankees on September 23rd, 6 to 5. Ferriss lost the second game of the doubleheader to finish his rookie year with a 21-10 record. The Red Sox finished the season in seventh place with a 71-83 record. Sox pitchers gave up 674 runs, but Sox batters only produced 599 runs. They finished 17 1/2 games behind the Detroit Tigers. 39 year old, Bob Johnson's last year in the majors, saw him bat .280 to give him a lifetime batting average of .296. He led the team with 12 home runs to boost his lifetime total to 288. He drove in 74 runs to also lead the team. Johnny Lazor led the Red Sox with a .310 batting average, appearing in 101 games. George Metkovich batted .260 for the year, but for some reason led the league with a .421 BA in night games. Tom McBride had his best year in the majors. In 100 games, he batted .305 with 11 doubles, seven triples and a home run. Leon Culberson batted .245 but turned in a league-leading six soubleplays as the Sox centerfielder. This was the last season in the majors for Pete Fox, who had career lows in all offensive categories in cluding his .245 BA. Eddie Lake had a good year showing a lot of hustle and chatter from the bench. He was the perfect ballplayer to have on a team. He batted .279 and knocked in 51 runs. He was second on the team with 11 home runs. He earned 106 free passes to lead the Amkerican League in on-base percentage at .412. His 459 assists at shortsop also led the league, as did the 112 double plays he helped turn. Ty LaForest had a tremendous season while playing in Louisville, batting .353 in 91 games when he got called up by the Red Sox. He played in 52 games for the Sox and hit .250 Dave Ferriss finished the season with a 21-10 record and a 2.96 ERA with 26 complete games. Four of his first six starts were shutouts. He had won his first eight games, beating every team in the American League the first time around. Reliever Mike Ryba was 7-6 with a 2.49 ERA. He was a fan favorite with the Fenway Park bleacherites who had formed a 200 member club known as the "Bull Pen A.C." They awarded him a gift of $500 at their annual dinner, held at the Parker House in Boston.
Dom DiMaggio served in the Navy as a chief petty officer during the war and was deployed in Australia and the Phillipines. In 1944, he was flown to Honolulu to play in an Army-Navy World Series. Staff sargeant Bobby Doerr served in the Army and was first assigned to serve at Fort Lewis and a week later became stationed Camp Roberts in California for infantry training. His unit was being prepped for the invasion of Japan when the atomic bombs were dropped. Originally intended for induction into the Navy, Tex Hughson ended up in the army. His postings ranged from Texas to Hawaii to Marianas Islands in the Pacific. He fought the war with a bat and a glove. Earl Johnson served in the 120th infantry and landed at Omaha Beach 21 days after D-Day. He fought in five major conflicts and took part in the Battle of the Bulge. Sgt Johnson received the Bronze Star with clusters along with the Silver Star. While manning a truck carrying vital radio equipment, the truck was disabled by German artillery fire. Knowing that the equipment couldn't fall into enemy hands, Johnson and his crew stayed with the truck. They were finally was rescued by a tank who Johnson directed to destroy the enemy position. Then while fighting among the hedgerows in France, he noticed a German tank waiting in ambush. He was able to make his way over to the hatch of the tank and toss two hand grenades in it. At the Battle of the Bulge, Johnson's platoon had 36 men in it, but only 11 survived. Charlie Wagner played ball in the military at the Norfolk Naval Training Base. He was ultimately shipped out to the Phillipines. Mace Brown also played ball at the Norfolk Naval Base until he was transferred to Hawaii and the Guam.
Ted Williams spent the war as a flight instructor in Pensacola. In May he was transferred to Jacksonville, FL for combat training before being sent to the Pacific. In Jacksonville he honed his skills learning to fly the F4U Corsair. On August 3rd he received his orders for duty in the Pacific. He was given a month's leave during which time the war ended. He arrived in Hawaii on September 4th and spent the final months of his duty, twiddling his thumbs and being a prop for Navy baseball games. Johnny Pesky served as a station officer at Gordon Field in Atlanta before being transferred to Hawaii for duty in the Pacific. He was on his way to Okinawa when the bombs were dropped and was sent back to Hawaii. From there he and Ted were sent back to California to be mustered out. While there, Ted Williams and Johnny Pesky, along with other major leaguers in the Navy were asked to play in a series of seven AL-NL All Star Games. Ted really didn't care about playing in the meaningless games. He just wanted to go home and it showed. In the first game on September 26th, down 6-4, he made an out in the ninth inning, tossed his bat in the air and stomped off the field. In the third game on September 29th, he homered over the right field bleachers. He was 3 for 11 in the series. On October 3rd, in the fourth game, Johnny Pesky was 3-for-3 with a single, double and a home run. Johnny was 9 for 26 in the seven games.
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