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The Sox sweep the Yankees, day and night July 31, 1976 ... Ferguson Jenkins pitched the Sox to a 4 to 2 victory over the Yankees in the first game of a day-night doubleheader. The Sox got to Ken Holtzman for eight hits, including Bob Montgomery's tie-breaking solo homer in the fifth inning. Jenkins went the distance, giving up six hits posted his 10th victory. The Sox added and insurance run in the seventh inning on a walk to Rico Petrocelli, a bunt single from Monty, Chris Chambliss' throwing error and a sacrifice fly from Dwight Evans. An unearned run because of an errant throw by Monty on an attempted steal by Roy White and a sacrifice fly by Thurman Munson, gave the Yankees a 1-0 first inning lead. The Sox came back with two runs in the second inning. Singles by Bobby Darwin and Jim Rice, preceded a triple by Butch Hobson into the right field corner. Another walk to Petrocelli and a clean single by Montgomery, to atone for his bad throw, accounted for the scoring. The Yankees got to Jenkins for the tying run in the fourth inning. The standoff dissolved the next inning when Monty slugged his first homer of the year over the wall. Then the Sox decked the Yankees again later that night, by a 6 to 4 score. Catfish Hunter endured a 12-hit shellacking in 6 2/3 innings. New York scored in the first inning on a single, two walks, two stolen bases, a ground ball out, and a wild pitch from Reggie Cleveland. Jim Rice's single scored Rick Burleson, who led off the bottom of the first with a double, to cut the Yankees lead to 2-1. The Sox went ahead two innings later when Cecil Cooper, Carl Yastrzemski and Rice put together three doubles with two outs. But the the Yankees grabbed a 4-3 lead, in the fifth inning. Carlos May singled Mickey Rivers home to tie the game, and Rice let the ball get by him, allowing Roy White to score also. Hunter gave up leadoff singles to Burleson and Doyle in the Sox half of the fifth inning. Cecil Cooper then bounced one back to Hunter, who gave Burleson a look to hold him on third, threw out Cooper. But Burleson didn't stay on third, scoring on the throw to first. Rice's single scored Doyle and the Sox were up by one run, 5 to 4. Cooper's solo homer in the seventh added the sixth insurance run. |
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