August 13, 1985: Kansas City Royals (60-49) @ Boston Red Sox (60-50)
Another tricky one for us to negotiate tonight with young gun Bret Saberhagen on the mound for the Royals. Odd that we’re yet to face him previously in this season, having somehow missed him in each of the series so far, and in fact I’ve only faced him once in my career, striking out last year. Bob Ojeda is up for us on a cold and blustery almost mirror image of last night.
Bill Buckner YTD stats entering the game
Game Recap
A pair of doubles and a triple in the 2nd give them an early 2-0 lead and a solo shot by Hal McRae in the 3rd to cap off an extraordinary 14-pitch AB adds a third before we’ve even had a man on base.
Geds singles in a run for us in the 4th but they cancel it out immediately and then go 6-1 ahead in the 6th to chase Ojeda.
Two more in the next seem to have ended this, only for our bats to come alive as we post one in the 7th and then 5 more in the 8th to really bring ourselves and the crowd back into the contest at 8-7.
The comeback is complete when we tie it up in the 9th on a leadoff homer by Boggs, but it all goes to waste as they score 3 in the 12th and we can only get one of them back on a solo shot by yours truly to put the final score at 11-9.
The true definition of a heartbreaker, but once again we have only ourselves to blame.
Best Performances, News & Highlights of the Day
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- MLB Debuts: NIL
- Daily Notes: On this day in 1908, Cy Young Day is celebrated by 20,000 in Boston, with the man himself pitching briefly against an All-Star team that includes Jack Chesbro, Hal Chase, Willie Keeler, Harry Davis and George Mullin.