(This game was played as part of The Splendid Splinter co-op project to replay Ted Williams' .406 season of 1941.)
Bob Feller struck out ten Red Sox, but couldn’t get the big out when he needed it as Boston scored a run in the bottom of the 8th inning to nip the Indians by a score of 5-4. Cleveland greeted Boston starter Charlie Wagner rudely, leadoff batter Lou Boudreau doubling and Ken Keltner pinging one off the left-field wall one out later to score the game’s first run with only one out on the books. But the Sox answered with power in the 2nd, Jimmie Foxx and Jim Tabor drilling back-to-back blasts off Feller to put Boston into the lead.
Boston led 4-2 after five frames, Foxx and Tabor each driving in another run, but Cleveland flashed its own power in the 6th. With one out Jeff Heath doubled and, with two gone, Ray Mack touched Wagner for a two-run homer that tied the game. Feller struck out four straight Sox (including Williams) in the 6th and 7th as the game remained deadlocked, but a touch of wildness proved fatal to the 22-year-old flamethrower in the 8th. Foxx drew a leadoff walk, and advanced to second on a wild pitch, before Feller got Tabor on a called third strike for his tenth K. Frankie Pytlak, the eight-hole hitter for Boston, then managed to put the bat on the ball and grounded one up the middle and into center field for a base hit that scored Foxx from second and put the Sox back in front.
Wagner took the ball in the 9th looking to complete the day’s work, but allowed a one-out double (Cleveland’s fifth of the game) to PH Roy Weatherly to put the tying run just one base hit away. Wagner got Beau Bell to sky a pinch-hit fly ball to center and then, facing the dangerous Boudreau (2-for-4 with a double and a homer on the day), saw a sharp line drive to the right side head right for first baseman Foxx who snagged it for the final out. Eleven of the nineteen hits in the game went for extra bases, and Wagner finished his CG victory with just one walk and one strikeout.
Ted today: 2-for-4, R
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