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THE SOX BATS RUMBLE,
BUT THE PITCHING STUMBLES ...
The Sox tie a MLB record by
blasting 8 HRs
July 4,
1977 ...
Fred Lynn and George Scott hit two homers each and
Butch Hobson, Bernie Carbo, Jim Rice and Carl Yastrzemski one apiece,
as the Sox snapped their losing streak with a 9 to 6 comeback over
the Blue Jays.
Toronto had taken a 6-3 lead off Ferguson Jenkins. Jerry Garvin had
retired the first 12 slumping Red Sox batters. In the bottom of the
seventh inning he was taken out of the game and the Sox proceeded to
retire the next the Jays' pitchers.
Butch Hobson and pinch-hitter, Bernie Carbo pulled the Sox to within
a run with consecutive home runs against Chuck Hartenstein, to make
the score 6-5.
With one out in the eighth inning, Lynn hit his second homer of the
game. Rice followed with his 19th homer of the season and the Sox
were now ahead 9-6. Mike Willis then replaced Hartenstein and gave up
homers to Yaz and the second of the game to Scott. The Boomer had hit
one into the centerfield bleachers, scoring Carlton Fisk ahead of
him, in the fifth inning. Lynn had hit a solo homer in the sixth
inning.
Jenkins had started for the Sox and gave up 10 hits and a homer,
leaving in the seventh inning. He was replaced by Ramon Hernandez,
Reggie Cleveland and Bill Campbell. The Sox defense made three
errors.
The Sox set a major league record by hitting five or more home runs
in a game for the seventh time this season. The eight homers tied a
major league record set by the '39 Yankees, '53 Braves, '56 Reds, '61
Giants and the '63 Twins. The Sox hit four in one inning, marking the
10th time in major league history that it had been accomplished. It
was the fifth time the Sox had done it and second time this season. |
