(This game was played as part of The Splendid Splinter co-op project to replay Ted Williams' .406 season of 1941.)
Red Sox starter Dick Newsome allowed eleven of the seventeen Nationals he faced to reach base as Washington scored fourteen times in the first five innings en route to a laugher in the lid-lifter of a doubleheader at Fenway Park.
The game was scoreless after one inning, but Washington got a two-out RBI double from Al Evans in the 2nd to take the lead. Things started poorly for Newsome in the 3rd - a single by Doc Cramer and a home run off the bat of Buddy Lewis - and then got progressively worse. Two walks and two singles followed to the next four Nats, and Evans then put a ruthless end to Newsome’s day with a bases-loaded triple that made the score 7-0. One final run was still to come that inning, three more in the 3rd , and two in the 4th and Washington converted both extra points to make it a 14-0 game.
The Sox gave the now sparse-and-quiet Fenway crowd something to cheer about when Jim Tabor homered in the 6th, and five hits chased Ken Chase in the 7th. But Boston would get only as “close” as 14-5 before Walt Masterson came on to finish things off for the visitors. Four different Nationals had three hits each, and three had at least three RBI.
Ted today: 1-for-2, R, 2 BB, SO
100-for-218, 22 2B, 1 3B, 13 HR, 68 RBI, 63 R, 66 BB, 8 K, 1 SB (.459/.585/.748)
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| Ted reaches bases three times, but Boston gets drubbed |
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