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ON THIS DATE (June 13, 1913) ... The
Speed Boys behind Duffy Lewis, who singled home Steve Yerkes with the
winning run, beat the St. Louis Browns by a score of 7 to 6 with a
walkoff win in the 13th inning at Fenway Park.
The Red Sox held the lead by a
score of 2-1 until the eighth
inning, when Buck O'Brien,
passed three men and allowed
three sharp singles and a
double, good for five runs, to
put the Red Sox in a 6 to 2
hole. The Sox then got
down to business and scored two
runs on hits by Yerkes, Larry
Gardner and a double by Clyde
Engle in the bottom of the
inning, cutting the deficit down
to 6 to 4. Thus the Red Sox went
into the last of the ninth now
only two runs behind. With one
down, Steve Yerkes drove the
ball against the left-field
banking for a double and scored
on Tris Speaker's triple to the
fence in right-center. Duffy
Lewis came up next and tied the
score on a double to the left
bank, scoring Speaker.
As the Red Sox caught up to the visitors, the crowd got more interested, and the boos that the Sox players heard when they lost the lead, started turning into cheers. The volume grew louder and louder as each inning passed. Then came the 13th inning. Harry Hooper led off and was thrown out
at first. Yerkes and Speaker worked
Earl Hamilton for free passes, before Duffy Lewis sent in the winning run with his walkoff smash. |
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