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THE "GOLD DUST TWINS" AND
A SEASON TO REMEMBER
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Dick Drago finally brings some relief to
this battle
May 5, 1975
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Jim Rice's two run double highlighted a four-run fourth inning that
carried the Red Sox to a 7 to 5 victory in Cleveland. Bernie Carbo
and Carl Yastrzemski drew walks off Jim Perry before Fred Lynn hit
the first of three consecutive doubles, scoring Carbo. Rice followed
with his double to left, scoring Yaz and Lynn, then came home on a
double by Rico Petrocelli, giving the Red Sox a 4 to 2 lead. The
Indians had scored two runs in the first inning off Luis Tiant, when Tom McCraw
singled and George Hendrick hit his third home run of the season.
The Red Sox added another run of their own in the fifth, when Doug Griffin
singled to left and went to third on a passed ball by Indians catcher John
Ellis. Carl Yastrzemski walked and the Sox worked a double steal with Griffin
scoring before Yaz got thrown out at second.
Down 5 to 2, Cleveland got a run back in the sixth inning on John
Lowenstein's second home run of the year off Tiant. The Red Sox got that run
back and made the score 6 to 3 in the seventh inning when Doug Griffin walked,
went to second on a wild pitch and scored on a single by Juan Beniquez. But the
Indians came back when Diego Segui came into pitch in the seventh. He walked
Oscar Gamble, who eventually scored on Jack Brohamer's singled to right.
In the eighth-inning, with the Red Sox leading 6 to 4, Dennis Eckersley, came
in to replace Dave LaRoche, who had walked Evans and Yastrzemski. After Eck
walked Rico Petrocelli to load the bases Bob Montgomery reached on an error by
Buddy Bell, that allowed Dwight Evans to score the Red Sox seventh run.
The Indians weren't done yet. In the bottom of the eighth John Lowenstein
began the inning with a single to right. After a ground ball that moved him to
second, he scored on a single to center by Boog Powell, making the score 7 to 5.
Dick Drago came in to replace Segui after he loaded the bases, and shutdown the
Indians for the rest of the afternoon.
With two Cleveland's stolen bases in three attempts in this game, opposing
baserunners have successfully stolen 14 times out of 19 tries on Bob Montgomery. |
