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Five HRs push the Sox past Cleveland April 18, 1969 ... Five home runs were hit off Luis Tiant, who was permitted to stay around for seven innings, while he messed around with breaking pitches. Nine runs were earned off the notorious fastball pitcher. Two of them were home runs in successive times at bat by Ken Harrelson, pacing the Red Sox to a 10 to 7 win over the Indians. The other home runs came from Tony Conigliaro, his first here since July 27, 1967, and the rest were drilled by Rico Petrocelli and Carl Yastrzemski. Yaz had gone 0 for 15 when he hit his first of the year into the right-field bleachers. In the first inning Yaz also flashed some leather, when he raced to left field corner to take a potential double way from José Cardenal, after the first two men and hit safely off Ray Culp. And he had to make a duplicate catch off Max Alvis in the fourth inning with two men on base. With two outs in the ninth-inning, Culp had to be relieved when the Indians scored twice and had the tying run at bat. With the count one ball on Chuck Hinton, in came Bill Landis. The Cleveland outfielder then hit a long fly ball to George Thomas in right to end the game. Culp gave up a slice single to left by Russ Snyder to start the game and Larry Brown singled sharply to left. Yaz then made his first outstanding catch with Snyder scoring. There still was trouble when Tony Horton singled and went to second on Yaz's throw, trying to get Brown at third. Petrocelli hit his fourth home run of the year to tie the game in the second inning and Conigliaro put the Sox ahead in the third inning, with a long drive to the right of the upright in center field. Horton doubled and Duke Sims walked to open the fourth. Consecutive singles by Hinton and Zoilo Versalles produced another run. Cardenal got dropped on a pitch by Culp, then dusted himself off and lined a home run into the screen in the fifth inning, giving the Indians a 4 to 2 lead. Then Harrelson hit his first home run of the day after Mike Andrews walked, to tie the game in the fifth inning. Gerry Moses, who was hitting the ball harder than everybody on the team, had two singles and a double. Ray Culp's arm might not have been at its strongest, but his bat was. He doubled off the wall in left and Reggie Smith doubled to right. Russ Snyder seemed to be calling for a fair catch and then let Reggie's ball land in front of him for a double and another run, making it 10 to 5. After Andrews grounded out, Yaz hit his home run and Harrelson followed with another. Finally Cleveland manager Alvin Dark, became merciful and brought in right-hander Larry Burchart. Conigliaro doubled off him, but George Scott grounded out. |
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