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Yaz's grandslam lifts the Sox past Detroit May 3, 1964 ... The score was tied at 7-7 in the last of the fifth inning. The lead had gone back and forth five times. But now the bases were loaded and Carl Yastrzemski was at the plate. Yaz had never homered with the bases full in his career. Julio Navarro was pitching for the Tigers and he blew his first pitch past Yaz. But on the second pitch, Yaz slammed a long fly ball against the wind, that landed in the Tigers' bullpen, putting the Sox back in front, 11 to 7. His six RBIs in the game, was the largest single game accumulation for Yaz. Yaz's homer was the culmination of a six-run outburst for the Sox, who entered the inning down by a 7-5 score. And Dick Radatz kept it that way, by stopping the Tigers on just one hit, over the last four innings. Gates Brown had smashed a ball, with two men on, into the right field bleachers off Jack Lamabe in the fourth inning. Tony Conigliaro also homered off Phil Regan in the third inning. In the first five innings, both teams knocked out 25 hits. Each team scored in the first inning. Jerry Lumpe lobbed a single into centerfield with one out, for Detroit. Al Kaline drew a walk and Norm Cash hit a smash to center, that Tony C. couldn't track down and let it get by him, for a triple. In the Sox first inning, Chuck Schilling, who had three hits in the game, singled to left. Eddie Bressoud's ground ball took a bad hop over Jerry Lumpe's glove and he was on. Schilling went over to third and scored on Yaz's grounder to Lumpe. Frank Malzone doubled to left and scored Bressoud from second, tying the game up at 2-2. Bob Tillman, who also had three hits, started the second inning by doubling. Schilling hit another double down the third base line, that scored Tillman, and Yaz stroked a line drive to left that was dropped by Willie Horton, trying to make a shoe-string catch. In the third inning, with the Sox ahead 4-2, Tony C. lined his homer into the right field bleachers. Lamabe got two outs in the fourth inning, before Bill Freehan lined a single to center. Dick McAuliffe followed with a single to right and Gates Brown took Lamabe deep into the stands, tying the game at five apiece. When Don Demeter opened the fifth with a double, Bob Heffner came in to pitch for the Sox. A misjudged line drive got by Congiliaro, allowing Al Kaline to leg out a triple. Cash followed with double, that bounced by Dick Stuart and Detroit went out front, 7 to 5. The Sox started the fifth inning outburst with a strikeout by Stuart and a walk to Lou Clinton. Conigliaro singled to left and Tillman reached on a bloop hit that landed just over Julio Navarro's head, to load the bases. Dalton Jones, pinch-hitting for Heffner, bounced a ball off Norm Cash's glove down the right field line for a double and two runs. A strikeout by Schilling and a walk to Bressoud, loaded the bases for Yaz ... 11 to 7. |
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