(This game was played as part of The Splendid Splinter co-op project to replay Ted Williams' .406 season of 1941.)
Boston rallied from an early four-run deficit to take the lead in the 7th inning and hold on for a narrow 6-5 victory at Fenway Park. Detroit drew first blood in the 2nd when Lou Finney allowed Birdie Tebbetts’ single to get under his glove and roll all the way to the RF wall for an error, allowing Frank Croucher to score (although Tebbetts was thrown out at home attempting to take the same liberty himself). Back-to-back triples led to two more Tiger runs in the 3rd and, after Lefty Grove had hit a solo homer in the bottom half to get one run back, Detroit ripped three consecutive doubles in the 4th for two runs that gave them a 5-1 lead. (Of the ten hits allowed by Grove on the afternoon, six went for extra bases.)
Grove’s homer was the only blemish on Bobo Newsom’s ledger through five innings, but he appeared to run out of gas in the 6th. Two singles started the inning, the second being Ted’s third base hit of the day, but Joe Cronin bounced into a double play that got Newsom two quick outs and suggested that an adroit escape was in the offing. Unfortunately for the much-traveled right-hander, however, he then walked Jimmie Foxx and Jim Tabor slammed a double off the wall in left that scored two runs with Tabor taking third when Ned Harris threw wildly home in an attempt to retire Foxx. After another free pass, Bobo’s outing ended when Johnny Peacock knocked an RBI single for the third run of the inning.
Mickey Harris came on to pitch for Boston in the 7th, and hit the first two batters but managed to wriggle free unscathed. The same would not be true for Dizzy Trout in the home half of the inning. After two quick outs, Williams took ball four, Cronin tripled into the right-field corner, and Foxx singled him home to give Boston its first lead at 6-5. Detroit got a one-out triple by Croucher in the 8th, but he was retired at home by Cronin attempting to score on a one-out ground ball to short and then, in the 9th, Rudy York grounded into a gigantic GIDP with two on and no one out. Harris held his nerve and popped up pinch-hitter Barny McClosky for the game’s final out with the potential tying run at third base.
Ted today: 3-for-3, BB, R
Stats through 13 games:
26-for-49, 4 2B, 1 3B, 2 HR, 12 RBI, 14 R, 12 BB, 0 K, 1 SB (.531/.623/.776)
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| Ted reaches base four times as the Sox rally to win |
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