May 1, 1985: Boston Red Sox (12-8) @ Seattle Mariners (13-8)
The new month sees us visit the league’s most northwestern outpost as we take on the M’s for a pair. We’ve been flat these past few games after our strong start and need to turn things around so as not to undo our good early work. Seattle, too, have started well at 13-8 and equal top in the West, so we’ve got our hands full it would seem.
Rocket is on for us today, looking to extend his undefeated run against underrated righty Jim Beattie, who has held me to a lone triple in 6 ABs when we met in a couple games last season.
Bill Buckner YTD stats entering the game
Game Recap
Boy these early frames aren’t being kind to us of late and yet again our opponent takes a 1st-inning lead, this time on a solo shot by Alvin Davis, then add 3 more in the next as Dave Henderson rocks one out with one on and they generally manhandle Roger.
We can barely lay bat on ball as Beattie is on song, and this one looks done as they post a 4-spot in the 5th, with a 3-run Jim Presley double doing most of the damage. We finally get on the board with one in the 6th but they immediately cancel it out and that closes out the scoring as we manage just 4 hits and our mini-funk deepens noticeably.
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The Real Deal
- MLB Debuts: Kirk McCaskill
- Transactions: BOS sends Ed Glynn to MON as part of a conditional deal
- Daily Notes: Separated by 31 years, it is on this day that both Babe Ruth (1920) and Mickey Mantle (1951) hit their first home run for the Yankees; IRL, Jimmy Key becomes the first southpaw starting pitcher in more than 600 games to win for the Blue Jays - he also gets the win in this save.