April 27, 1985: Kansas City Royals (9-6) @ Boston Red Sox (11-5)
We get another crack at Danny Jackson here, although I don’t like our – or my, for that matter – chances of having it quite so easy tonight as we did against him in KC last week. Al Nipper up for us and still looking for his first decision of the year.
Bill Buckner YTD stats entering the game
Game Recap
The pitchers control things early until, just when it looks like this is going to be a low-scoring affair, Nips gets the wobs in the 4th and Mac obviously doesn’t like what he is seeing, as he rips Al outta there and puts Rob Woodward in. That doesn’t help matters one bit, as they eventually score 3 runs on 3 hits – two of them on a two-out hit by Onix Concepcion – to take the lead.
The wheels fall off completely for us in the next, as the Royals break it wide open with another 4 runs with Frank White doubling in three of them.
We finally get a run in the 6th on a Dewey Evans single, but Jackson exacts his revenge for that earlier blowout loss, going the distance and giving up just four hits in a 9-1 laugher that we don’t find amusing at all. I fail to get the ball out of the infield in three tries, GIDPing in one of them.
A dirty night all round.
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