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“DIARY OF A WINNER”
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THE "GOLD DUST TWINS" AND
May 26, 1975 ... The Sox allowed the Rangers to grab an early lead because of costly mistakes, fell behind, and then got the lead back and blew it. But they battled back on homers by Bernie Carbo and Dwight Evans. They were then saved by Bill Lee and Dick Drago. Evans slammed a tie-breaking home run in the eighth inning that capped a late inning exchange of homers that gave the Red Sox a 7 to 5 win over the Texas Rangers in Arlington. His homer came off reliever Steve Foucalt, who also yielded a three-run homer to Bernie Carbo in the seventh inning, when the Red Sox scored four times to erase a 3 to 1 deficit. The Rangers scored in the first inning when Willie Davis singled, stole second while Wise and Petrocelli were sleeping and was brought in by Jeff Burroughs' base hit. In the second inning, Sox starter, Rick Wise, gave up a base hit to leadoff hitter, Jim Spencer. Spencer made it to third base when Toby Harrah's sacrifice bunt was thrown away by Wise. Spencer tried to steal home, but was caught. The play let Harrah move down to second base and he scored on Bill Fahey's single to left. Spencer homered in the fourth inning to give the Rangers a 3-0 lead. In the sixth inning, the Sox scored their first run off Texas starter Steve Hargan. Tim Blackwell reached on a bobbled grounder by Harrah, and was forced out at second by Carbo. He moved to third on a single by Rick Burleson and scored on Fred Lynn's fly to center, making the score 3 to 1. Entering the seventh inning, Hargan gave up a leadoff single to Jim Rice and a one-out double to Rico Petrocelli, bringing on Foucalt. Rice scored on Cecil Cooper's infield out and after Tim Blackwell walked. Carbo unloaded his eighth homer of the season for a 5 to 3 Sox lead. Texas tied the game at 5-5 in the bottom of the seventh on Willie Davis' two-out, two-run homer, following Lenny Randle's bloop double. Fred Lynn singled with one out in the Sox eighth inning and Evans hit his fifth home run of the season with two down. Lee came in and replaced Wise to get Mike Hargrove on a pop fly. Drago took over from there, striking out Tom Grieve and coasting to the end. The Sox only had 21 players in the dugout. Luis Tiant, Diego Segui and Rick Miller stayed at the hotel suffering from a flu virus. |
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