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Young again
Boston Globe, September 28, 1928
Special World Series Edition
RED SOX TAKE SERIES LEAD
Boston Downs Pittsburgh, 7-3
PITTSBURGH—Neither Neal Brady or Lefty Lorenzen pitched like the aces they are today, but Brady did a better job of limiting the damage caused by the opposition’s batters. Hence, the Boston Red Sox won the first game of the World Series this afternoon, a somewhat sloppy affair that did little to demonstrate why either club won its league championship. The final score was 7 to 3.
Four of the Bostons’ runs were unearned, coming in the third inning after young Pirate first sacker Buck Leonard muffed a ground ball. Baseball scoring rules dictate that when an error occurs, any runs that might happen to score after two men are out in that inning are not charged as “earned” to the man on the mound. In this case, Lorenzen got off lightly. He coughed up a trio of singles, and while the fly ball by Kiki Cuyler which proceeded them would have ended the inning had Leonard not miscued, the base hits were nonetheless real. As it was, Cuyler’s fly scored Judy Johnson from third, and the singles by Frank Frisch, Johnny Bassler, and Pat O’Farrell all drove in a run apiece.
Brady generously allowed the National League champions to hit safely fourteen times, but as he usually is, he was very stingy with free passes, walking nary a man and pitching around trouble on several occasions. Brady neatly allowed runs every third inning, the Pirates scoring once each in the first, fourth, and seventh frames.
Pat O’Farrell, who was greeted warmly by the Pittsburgh crowd on the occasion of the opening of his eleventh and final World Series, recaptured a bit of the glory of his youth. Pat, hitting seventh in Bill Carrigan’s batting order, added an eighth-inning double and a walk to his aforementioned RBI single, and after the walk, he stole second base. Both the base on balls and the successful theft were, of course, typical for the Stockbridge Irishman, who has performed each of these deeds more times than any other man who has ever played major league ball.
Tomorrow, Joe Wood, who is the husband of O’Farrell’s younger sister, will take the hill for the Red Sox. Carmen Hill, whose sisters are married to a grocer and a machinist, will oppose him.
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