Evening star., 1951-07-14
Incredible White Sox Points From Top After 19nning Win
Ed Stewart ThriIIer's S Hero:
Yankees Blow Six-RunLeod

4 QEFNCVS DEVV
BY Jock Hand
As.esiotsd Press Sports Writer
The never -give-up White Sox
have done it again!
Marathon 19-inning winners
over the Red Sox in the longest
night game in American League
history, the "rags-to-Richards"
gang now trails Boston by only
.003 in the steaming pennant race.
Even the hardest Chicago fans
lost hope early today when the
Red Sox broke a % tie with two
runs in top of the 10th. You can
imagine the wild scene when the
White Sox fought back to score
three and write new golden page
in their Comisky Park record book
at approximately lit am. (2:17
Washington time) on this sum-
mer Saturday morning.
The 5-4 victory boosted Chicago
up even with Boston as far as
games won and lost are concerned,
but the Red Sox hold that slender
Iedge-.620 to SIT in the per-
centage table.
An Unforgettable Game.
Nobody who saw this third game
of the vital four-game series will
forget it. The clubs played a nine
inning twilight game Thursday
night and followed with a IT.
inning struggle, both won by Bos-
ton. Then came the 19-inuing
battle last night for IS innings
in two days. In 40 of those in
nings, the White Sox failed to
score.
The 19-inning game tied the
National League night high of last
September Is between Cincinnati
and Philadelphia. The longest day
game, of course, was the 26-inning
battle between Boston and Brook
lyn in 1920. The American Leagues
daytime record is "a innings. done
twice.
Lasts Nearly Hours.
Last nights game took four
hours and Al minutes to play,
lust one minute shy of the league
record. The defeat snapped an
eight game winning streak for the
Red Sox.
Mickey McDermott pitched the
first II innings for Boston in a
magnificent effort. allowing eight
hits and tanning nine. He gave UP
1.-TWO tying runs in the fifth and
that was all. Harry Taylor, who
took over in the 18th, was charged
with the loss, although Ray Scar
borough had relieved him before
the game ended.
Boston forged ahead in the 18th
with Clyde Vollmer. who homered
| in the fifth. singing home one
run. An error by Nelson Fox let In
the second.
| But back came those White Sox'
| Floyd Baker opened with a
single and Bob Dillinger followed
with another. Fox beat out q
lbunt to fill the bases. Eddie Stew
art, batting for Jim Busby, singled
Ito center, scoring Baker and Dill
Ilinger to make it A.
Scarborough Comes in.
That was all for Taylor and
Scarborough came in. al Zarilla
/ beat out a bunt to the pitcher.
loading the bases and still no
body was out. Don Lenhardt's ny
to center sent Fox charging home
with the winning run.
The Red Sox had taken the lead
early with single runs of Billy
Pierce in the first and fifth in
Inings. But in the bottom Of the
Ihfth. the Chicagoans pushed across
the two tying markers.
Pierce left under pressure in the
eighth and Luis Aloma escaped
Iunscathed with the bases loaded
and one out as the White Sox
pulled their fourth of five double
plays.
Aloma was lifted for a pinch
hitter in the 18th when the White
Sox blew a bases-loaded chance.
Harry Dorish came in for Aloma
and finished to take the verdict.
Just Wouldn't Crack.
It was a game of sheer nerve all
the way and the White Sox simply
refused to crack under tremendous
pressure.
For today's finale, the White Sox
are sending Ken Holcombe (7-4)
against Chuck Stobbs (6-0. All
the Boston starters in this series
have been lefthanders.
! Each team hoped to have an
ailing star back in action this
afternoon. Ted Williams and
i Orestes Minoso both were on the
bench last night because of leg
Injuries, although both appeared
as pinch hitters.
/ Had it not been for the doings
in Chicago, the Indians and YAM
KEGS would have gotten the head
lines as a result of their weird
battle in Cleveland where the
champions blew a six-run lead
and lost 11-8. The Indians now
trail by only 312 games while the
Yankees are one and one-halt
games behind the Red Sox.
Dodgers Keep Going.
In the National League, Brook
Ilyn maintained its 912-game mar
gin by popping the Chicago Cubs
I8-6, for its eighth straight win
and the Cubs eighth straight loss
THE only difference in the stand
Iings is that New York is back in
second place instead of st. Louis
after the Giants 14-4 slaughter
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