Yanks take 2 From Red Sox

The series had the look of two sub .500 teams that are just going through the motions.

Game 1      NY 6   Boston 5

Typical Mel Stottlemyer outing lately, pitches well except for 1 inning.  Boston scored four runs in third when Stottlemyre, again, could not get the third out allowing four runs.  Boston held the 4-0 lead until Mickey McDermott allowed 3 in the seventh.  George Kell scores another run for the Sox on a squeeze play to take a 5-3 lead.  Roy White then ties the game back up in the eighth with a 2 run homer.  In the ninth with Ralph Brickner pitching for the Red Sox the Yanks score the winning run on a wild pitch.

Game 2      Boston 6   NY 4

After six it is 2-2 with neither team really showing that much at  the plate.  But Sammy White makes Peterson pay in the seventh with his first homerun of the year, a three run shot.  That was enough for the Sox to hang on for the win, although it was getting interesting in the ninth as the Yanks were trying for a late game rally.

Game 3       NY 7  Boston 0

This game was about as bad as it could get for Boston.  No hitting, followed up later in the game by no pitching and no fielding.  By the end of the game they had 5 errors, and when not making errors the pitchers were walking batters.  The Yankees on the other hand got an unexpected great performance out of Stan Bahnsen.  Pitching a 2 hit complete game shutout for his second win of the year.

--submitted by Joe Mach--