Boston and Washington both finished off opening series sweeps. Washington swept Seattle at home and Boston took three from Los Angeles in Tinsel Town.
The Red Sox batted .281 in the three game series scored 13 runs and held the Weinsteins to 9, winning by scores of 2-1 in 12 innings, 6-5 and 5-2, in the finale.
In game one both starting pitchers went the first nine innings and both pitched shutout baseball through the first nine innings. Del White of Boston gave up just two hits over nine innings walked three and struck out eight. Andy Telivent did not walk a batter while striking out eight as well and limited Boston to six hits.
Telivent pitched to two batters in the 10th inning, allowing a single to right field by Bruce Hess, and a pinch hit single to right field by Bill Crimian, that put runners on first and third with no one out.
That brought Hal Tucker onto the scene to face Julio Petry.
Petry lifted a flyball to leftfield that was deep enough to score Hess from third base. Crimian was caught stealing. Doug Cavet and Brett Johnston singled, but LA catcher Tommy Demaree threw out his second base stealer of the inning (Cavet) to retire the side.
Boston went to Jay Ashby in the bottom of the 10th to close it out and he blew the save opportunity. Art Evans hit a game tying pinch hit homerun.
Pat Borkelman (traded to Los Angeles after the series) retired all three batters he faced in the 11th inning after Bill Hershey, (traded to Boston for Bortelman) struck out the side in his first inning of work for LA.
Things kind of went sour for both to different degree in their second inning as Hershey gave up a run in the 12th inning. Hershey walked Paul Funk to start the 12th inning. Bruce Hess hit into a 1-4 fielders choice, replacing Funk on the base paths. Hess advanced to second base on a ground out by pinch hitter Jim Beliggio.
Julio Petry put Boston ahead 2-1 by driving in his second big run of the game with a single.
Borkelman earned the win by getting through the bottom of the inning unscored on although he did allow a lead off single to Doug Schramka and a double to Houston Forster putting runners on second and third with no one out. Borkelman struck out Evans and Danny Rakow and then got John Sullivan to ground out harmlessly to end the game.
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Game Two
Boston 6 Los Angeles 5
Game two of the series saw a little more scoring come into play. Boston scored three runs in the 4th inning off Los Angeles starting pitcher Bill Carmona.
Les Hollondsworth homered with one out. Mike Keeten singled, stole secodn base and scored on a double by Larry Grimshaw. Bruce Hess singled in Grimshaw.
Los Angeles scored one in the bottom of the 4th inning to cut thae lead to 3-1. Harry Malarkey gace up a single to Tom Korkovice, and walked John Sullivan. Both runners moved up one base on a hard smash back to the mound by Forster. Krokovice scored from third on a sacrifice fly by Demaree.
Boston took a commanding 5-1 lead in the 5th inning by scoring two more runs
Jessie Ryerson lead off with a double to right field. Malarkey bunted him succesfully to third base. (Out 3-4). Brett Johnston's single to right field platted Ryerson with the first run of the inning. Johnston stole second base. Hollondsworth drew a free pass and Mike Keeton singled in Johnston for the final score of the inning.
Danny Rakow hit Los Angeles' first homerun with no one on base in the bottom of the 5th to make the score 5-2.
The home team inched ever so closer in the 7th.
John Wyatt doubled to right field with one out. Mike Vorwinkle replaced Malarkey (WP 1-0 6.1KP 5H 3R/3ER 1BB/3SO). Danny Rakow, startng the season on a hot note, double for his second RBI of the game. Frank Baumann followed with a single that advanced Rakow to third base. Rakow scored on a sacrifice fly by Schramka.
5-4 Boston.
Boston came up with a big run in the 8th inning off Ramon Sivcik.
Funk singled past Rakow at third base.Skivcik walked Grantham. and Petry grounded into a double play (4-6-3) that left Funk at thrid base with two outs. Catcher Paul Dollarhead cashed in trhe two out opportunity with a run scoring single to up the score to 6-5 and it proved to be a valuable run.
Jay Ashby, for the second straight game, had trouble closing out Los Angeles. Wyatt lined out to shortstop Larry Grimshaw to start the innng. Rakow, a pest all through the series, singled to left field. Bauman shot a groundball in the six hole past Grimshaw, for a single. Art Evans came through in a pinch hitting rile for Los Angeles again by drawing a walk to load the bases. Korkovice singled in Rakow but left fielder Paul Funk's throw to the plate got a sliding Frank Baumann in a key defensive play in the game. Ashley struck out Sullivan to end the game.
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Boston 5 Los Angeles 2
Boston scored in the first inning of game three on a two out single by Larry Grimshaw, a stolen base, and a run scoring hit by Paul Funk off Nolan Harris. Second baseman Houston Forster's outstanding play on Bruce Hess helped Harris hold the scoring to one run.
Boston added on in the top of the 3rd inning. After Bellinger struck out to start things, Jeff Coombs singled up the middle. Mike Keeton drilled a double into the right field corner and Coombs running hard all the way scored from first base. Keeton came in to score on a Larry Grimshaw single to make it 3-0.
Los Angeles got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the 3rd. Pitcher Nolan Harris grounded a double over the first base bag. Korkovice ground to first advancing Harris to third base with one out and Sullivan grounded to first to drive in the run. Forster fouled out to Funk in leftfield to end the inning.
3-1 Boston.
In the 8th inning Boston got on the scoreboard for the last tme in the game to go ahead 5-1.
Grimshaw walked and stole second base. Paul Funk drove him in with a ground ball single to center field off Harris. Bill hershey replace Hsrris, the losing pitcher, who went 7 innings giving up 5 rns on 10 hits.
Hess bounced to first advancing Funk to second base. Jesse Ryerson singled him in. Petry and catcher Bob Bunker both struck out to end the inning.
Los ANGELES scored one more in the bottom of the 9th inning to concern Boston about their bullpen. John Sullivan doubled off Bellinger to finsih him (WP 8IP 6H 2/2 0/2).
Bob Edgerton replaced him and allowed the inherited run to score on a double by Houston Forster. Edgerton then got the next three stright batters out to give Boston the sweep of the series and send them home to hist Texas in he home opener in Boston.
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