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TED COMES BACK FROM KOREA
WITHOUT LOSING A STEP ...
Milt Bolling slaps a walk-off double in the 10th
to sweep a doubleheader from the Tribe
June 23, 1953 ... In
day and night games, Mickey McDermott and Willard Nixon pitched the
Sox to 6 to 4 and 2 to 1 wins. Rookie shortstop Milt Bolling doubled
home George Kell with the deciding run, with two outs in the 10th
inning of the second game, for a walkoff win.
The Red Sox scored a gift victory in the first game when Harry Simpson lost
Dick Gernert's fly ball in the tricky wind. The ball dropped behind him for a
triple, scoring Billy Goodman and Hoot Evers, with the deciding runs after two
were out.
The Indians had tied the game in the eighth inning after a 420 foot triple by
Larry Doby befuddled Umphlett allowing Jim Glynn to score. Doby later scored
when Simpson beat out a slow roller to Goodman at second base.
Reliever Bob Hooper, who took over for Mike Garcia in the fifth inning was
charged with the loss. Nixon allowed seven hits, walked five and struck out five
to receive credit for his fourth straight win.
Mickey McDermott and Bob Chakales tangled in a hot pitcher's duel in the
second game. The Indians scored first and the Sox tied it in the eighth inning
on a line drive out by McDermott.
George Kell walked on a three and two pitch to start the 10th inning and was
bunted over to second base by Sammy White. An intentional walk was handed to Tom
Umphlett and Jimmy Piersall hit a line drive, that Wally Westlake caught at the
edge of the scoreboard. Then Bolling followed, by slamming the first pitch into
the left-field corner, allowing Kell to walk home with the game-winner.
McDermott pitched two-hit shutout ball for six innings. He gave up a single
run in the seventh. Chakales, who had allowed only three hits and one harmless
walk in seven innings, got into trouble in the eighth. Umphlett, who raise his
batting average to .326, started with a double off the wall. He went to third
when Chakales threw high to Al Rosen at third after fielding Piersall's bunt.
Pinch-hitter Floyd Baker popped up, but McDermott slashed a drive into left
which Westlake caught and Umphlett scored.
George Kell climaxed a brilliant two game performance to get McDermott out of
the jam in the top of the 10th inning. Larry Doby opened with a single to center
and Bob Kennedy smashed a line drive toward left. Kell leaped as high as he
could to snatch the ball in his glove. Doby had started for second on the
three-two pitch and never tried to make it back, being a cinch doubleplay
victim.
McDermott won his second straight game against Cleveland. In the two games
pitching in 19 innings, he held the Indians to seven hits and one run.
Game saver, Billy Goodman, made some spectacular plays. He started to classy
doubleplays in the afternoon game. With George Strickland on first, Joe Tipton
slapped a ball toward right-field. Goodman reach far to his left to grab the
ball then he turned with a leaping throw to Milt Bolling getting the double-play
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