This video is from the April 18, 1970 Major League Baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Tigers in Detroit, won by the Tigers, 5-1.
The game, joined in progress in the bottom of the fourth and which runs to the top of the ninth, was broadcast on WHDH TV in Boston, with Ken Coleman and Ned Martin on the play by play and Johnny Pesky offering analysis.
Before we pick up the action, the Tigers jumped on Bill Lee for four runs in the first two innings, and the Red Sox got their only run on a bases-loaded walk by Rico Petrocelli, so the late innings didn't have much scoring.
But there are always things to discover watching old games, and for me that started with reliever Ed Phillips. I had never heard of the lad, rare for me for any Red Sox after 1967; come to find out he attended Deering High School in Portland, ME., and Colby College in Waterville, ME., where I was living at the time of this game! This was his only season in the bigs, which is interesting because I thought he had good stuff. As did Ken Brett, but I guess after being left in too long in a game in the minor leagues he never really truly regained his best form.
On the other side of the coin, there was lefthanded slopmaster Mickey Lolich, and I mean that as a compliment. Pitching is keeping the hitter off-balance, and Lolich was great at that. What he did to George Scott in that one at-bat is a felony in some states.
Anyway, although they lost this one, always great to watch Sox stalwarts Carl Yastrzemski, Petrocelli, Scott, Reggie Smith, Tony Conigliaro, and Mike Andrews in action! Heck, enjoyed seeing Al Kaline, Willie Horton, Bill Freehan, Jim Northrup, and Lolich, too.
Copyright MLB or any other party. I don't claim the rights to, and don't profit from, this video. I posted it for historical and educational purposes, and for those who will enjoy it as much as I did.
The box score:
www.baseball-reference.com/bo...
16 фев 2023
