Who Really Deserved It?
walk in three at bats.
With the Yankees now within a game of Boston, the Sox sent big right-hander Tex Hughson, a twenty game winner the year before, to oppose Bill Bevens, who would hold Brooklyn hitless for 8 2/3 innings in the 1947 World Series.
It didn't take long. Charlie Keller hit a two run home run in the first inning, the Yankees went on to score seventeen runs on seventeen hits, the Red Sox made five errors and didn't score until Williams hit a meaningless ninth inning home run. DiMaggio had four hits. The Yankees moved ahead of the Red Sox by percentage points.
The final game of the series was Monday night. A crowd of 74,747 was in the ball park but remarkably, the Yankees sold too many tickets and many fans had to be turned away. Refunds were made on 1,140 tickets. How would that go over in 2005?
Once the game started, the Yankees did to Boston what they would do to the Red Sox in critical games for the next fifty seven years. It was Boston's Joe Dobson, who had been their best starter so far against Yankees' rookie Spec Shea. The Red Sox scored single runs in the first two innings for a 2-0 lead but DiMaggio led off the Yankees' second with a single and scored on Billy Johnson's hit to cut the Boston lead to one run. This brings us to how different (and more efficiently?) pitchers were handled a long time ago.
Wally Moses opened the Boston third with a double. Johnny Pesky singled him home, giving Boston its two run lead once again. Shea then walked Dom DiMaggio, putting runners on first and second with no outs. Yankees' manager Bucky Harris strolled to the mound, removed Shea, and brought in lefty Joe Page. It was a key point in the game and in the season for the Yankees and for Page's career. Ted Williams was the batter.
Williams hit a ground ball to first that George McQuinn booted to load the bases with no outs. Page then struck out the dangerous Rudy York and the more dangerous Bobby Doerr. Now there were two outs with the bases still loaded. Eddie Pellagrini was out on a fly to Tommy Henrich and the Boston lead remained 3-1.
DiMaggio took over. With Keller on first and Henrich on third and no outs in the fourth, DiMaggio hit a short
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