The Sox come-from-behind on homers by
Tony Conigliaro and Dick Williams, to beat
the Yankees in the first game,
but lose the second one

June 10, 1964 ... The Red Sox attempted two blazing finishes against the Yankees. One worked while the other fell short.

They were one run behind in the last of the 10th inning in the first game. Tony Conigliaro homered to tie the score and Dick Williams, who had homered his last two times to the plate in Kansas City, blasted another homer into the left field net, giving the Sox a 7 to 6 win.

The homers gave the Sox their fourth consecutive victory over the Yankees this season. But in the night game, the Sox couldn't hold on and lost 10 to 6. They had leads of 4-2 in the third inning, then 6-5 going into the sixth inning. And in the ninth inning, down by four runs, the Sox loaded the bases, but their effort fell short.

The 10th inning homers by Tony C. and Williams gave Bob Heffner, who had succeeded Jack Lamabe and Dick Radatz, the afternoon victory. Eight home runs were belted in the two games.

Lamabe opposed Stan Williams to start the afternoon. He pitched well but yielded single runs in the first, second and fifth innings.

The Sox got three runs in the second inning to come back and lead 3 to 2. Lee Thomas reached on a base hit and Frank Malzone homered into the nets. A double by Eddie Bressoud off the wall, followed by a single from Bob Tillman, accounted for the third Sox run.

Yaz lined a triple to left-center in the third inning and was brought home when Thomas grounded out. In the sixth inning, Dick Stuart doubled to the center field wall and Malzone moved him to third with a single to center. Bill Stafford came in to replace Williams for the Yankees and Bressoud greeted him with a single to right, that scored Stuart, putting the Sox ahead, 5-3.

But in the eighth inning, Bobby Richardson doubled and moved to third on an infield out, scoring on a base hit by Roger Maris. Dick Radatz replaced Lamabe and retired the side. Then in the ninth inning, Phil Linz homered off Radatz to tie the score at five apiece and send the game into overtime.

At this point, the game was halted for 46 minutes while everyone watched a thunderstorm pass through. When play resumed, Bob Heffner came in to pitch for Radatz. Maris got a base hit off him and then stole second. He scored on a two-out single by Linz, putting the Yanks up by one.

Bud Daley took over to pitch against the Sox in the bottom of the 10th and was taken deep by Tony C. to tie the game. Dick Williams followed with the walk-off game winner.

 

TONY C AND DICK WILLIAMS

 

 

F   E   N   W   A   Y     P   A   R   K

 

Game #1

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

 

R

H

E

 
 

NEW YORK YANKEES

1

1

0

0

1

0

0

1

1

1

 

6

12

0

 
 

BOSTON RED SOX

0

3

1

0

0

1

0

0

0

2

 

7

13

0

 

 

W-Bob Heffner (5-1)
L-Bud Daley (1-2)
Attendance: 10,264

 2B-Yastrzemski (Bost), Bressoud (Bost), Stuart (Bost),
 Kubek (NY), Williams (NY), Richardson (NY)

 3B-Yastrzemski (Bost)

 HR-Malzone (Bost), Conigliaro (Bost),
 Williams (Bost), Linz (NY)

 

 

F   E   N   W   A   Y     P   A   R   K

 

Game #2

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

 

R

H

E

 
 

NEW YORK YANKEES

0

0

2

0

3

2

0

1

2

 

 

10

15

1

 
 

BOSTON RED SOX

0

3

1

0

2

0

0

0

0

 

 

6

14

2

 

 

W-Ralph Terry (2-5)
L-Bob Heffner (5-2)
S-Pete Mikkelsen (3)
Attendance: 28,516

 2B-Malzone (Bost), Stuart (Bost), Jones (Bost),
 
Maris (NY), Mantle (NY), Richardson (NY), Gonzalez (NY),
 Tresh (NY), Kubek (NY)

 HR-Thomas (Bost), Maris (NY), Kubek (NY), Tresh (NY)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Game #1

AB

R

H

AVG

 

 

Dalton Jones

2b 5 0 1 .257  

 

Tony Conigliaro lf 5 1 1 .278  

 

Carl Yastrzemski cf 5 1 2 .244  

 

Dick Stuart 1b 3 1 2 .266  

 

Earl Wilson pr 0 0 0 .278  

 

Dick Williams 1b 1 1 1 .208  

 

Lee Thomas rf 4 1 1 .291  

 

Frank Malzone 3b 4 1 2 .280  

 

Eddie Bressoud ss 4 1 2 .314  

 

Bob Tillman c 3 0 1 .284  

 

Jack Lamabe p 3 0 0 .097  

 

Dick Radatz p 1 0 0 .250  

 

Bob Heffner p 0 0 0 .286  
               
    IP H ER BB SO  

 

Jack Lamabe 7.1 8 4 2 6  

 

Dick Radatz 1.2 2 1 0 3  

 

Bob Heffner 1 2 1 1 1  

 

 

         

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Game #2

AB

R

H

AVG

 

 

Dalton Jones

2b 3 1 1 .297  

 

Tony Conigliaro lf 5 1 1 .278  

 

Carl Yastrzemski cf 4 2 3 .365  

 

Dick Stuart 1b 4 1 2 .222  

 

Lee Thomas rf 4 0 0 .207  

 

Frank Malzone 3b 4 1 2 .296  

 

Eddie Bressoud ss 4 0 0 .237  

 

Russ Nixon c 3 0 0 .200  

 

Bill Spanswick p 3 0 1 .284  

 

Bob Heffner p 3 0 0 .097  

 

Felix Mantilla ph 1 0 0 .250  

 

Pete Charton p 4 1 1 .200  

 

    IP H ER BB SO  

 

Bill Spanswick 4 8 5 2 5  

 

Bob Heffner 4 4 2 0 4  

 

Pete Charton 1 3 2 0 1  

 

 

         

 

 

 

1964 AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDINGS

 

 

Chicago White Sox 23 14 -

 

 

Baltimore Orioles 31 19 2 1/2

 

 

New York Yankees 26 21 6

 

 

Cleveland Indians 26 23 7

 

 

Minnesota Twins 28 25 7

 

 

BOSTON RED SOX 27 26 8

 

 

Detroit Tigers 22 28 11 1/2

 

 

Washington Senators 25 32 12

 

 

Los Angeles Angels 23 33 13 1/2

 

 

Kansas City Athletics 17 35 17 1/2