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THE SOX BATS RUMBLE,
BUT THE PITCHING STUMBLES ...
The Sox unload on the Royals
with 17 runs
May 28, 1977
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The Red Sox booming bats rallied from an 8-2 deficit,
finishing with a 17-12 victory over the Kansas City Royals. Jim Rice
drove in five runs with two home runs and a single, in powering the
Sox biggest scoring outburst of the season.
The Sox also got home runs from Carl Yastrzemski, Carlton Fisk,
Dwight Evans and George Scott. Butch Hobson was robbed of a homer
when his drive hit one of the stanchions that hold up the net above
the wall, but second base umpire, Terry Crowley ruled that the ball
hit the wall, and so Butch settled for a double.
Yaz's homer scored Fred Lynn ahead of him to give the Sox a 2-1 lead
in the first inning. Hal McRae's two-run homer in the second inning,
put the Royals back out front 3-2.
The Royals jumped to an 8-2 lead with five runs in the fourth inning.
However the Sox bounced back with two runs on Fisk's ninth homer of
the season, in their half of the fourth. They then exploded for seven
runs in the fifth inning. Denny Doyle led off with a double off the
wall. Rick Burleson's base hit scored him and Rice's homer scored
Burleson. Yaz, Fisk and Scott followed with hits for another run.
Then Dwight Evans slammed a two-run homer, to put the Sox up 11 to
10.
Rice's second homer of the game, scored Burleson in the sixth inning,
and Scott's solo homer in the seventh, put the Sox up 14-10. After
Evans reached on an error by George Brett, Hobson scored him with a
double off the wall. Doyle singled and Rice knocked out another
single, to score Hobson. A walk to Yaz loaded the bases and another
walk to Fisk allowed Doyle to jog home, for a 17-10 lead.
Home runs by Amos Otis and Al Cowens tallied the final scores of the
game. Hal McRae also drove in four runs with a double, a triple and a
homer. The Sox had pounded four Kansas City pitchers for 17 hits,
their most of the season.
Luis Tiant and Doug Bird started the game. Bird struck out seven, but
gave up seven hits and seven runs. Tiant got knocked out in the
fourth inning after giving up six hits, five walks and six runs. |
