August 16, 1985: Boston Red Sox (60-52) @ New York Yankees (58-54)
Always a buzz among the group when we head to Yankee Stadium, as we do here for a three-game stand. I doubt there is anything that would ever quell the animosity between these two clubs and their respective fans give proper hell to the other team whenever they come for a visit. That’ll set your nerves tingling no matter your disposition. The opener sees a rematch of last week’s contest between Oil Can Boyd and Joe Cowley. There’s rain in the forecast and electricity in the air, with 30-plus-thousand New Yorkers come to the Bronx to bait us.
Bill Buckner YTD stats entering the game
Game Recap
We simultaneously knock the wind out of all those lungs with a 5-spot in the top 1st, the centrepiece of which is a 3-run homer by Rich Gedman, and a pair more in the next send Cowley for an early shower as the locals roar their disapproval with deafening silence.
We exchange runs in the 4th to make it 8-1 and after 7 it is 10-2 with Geds adding a 2-run blast to his earlier job.
And that’s how it ends—a real statement win by the lads after that horror show against the Royals.
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- Daily Notes: On this day in 1948, Babe Ruth dies of throat cancer at age 53 in New York. He will lie in state at Yankee Stadium and be viewed by more than 100,000 mourners.