September 12, 1985: Baltimore Orioles (75-61) @ Boston Red Sox (72-67)
The closing game of this series with the O’s but we do have one final 3-game meeting with them in Baltimore right at the end of the season—will it have special significance? Can’t be getting ahead of ourselves thinking like that, only we can make it happen and a win today would at least mean we’ve picked up a couple games on them for now. A loss means we split the series, advantage them.
Tonight’s game sees Al Nipper facing second-year player Ken Dixon, who I’m 2-for-6 against to this point, with both hits being singles when we faced him a couple times down the stretch last season.
Bill Buckner YTD stats entering the game
Game Recap
Larry Sheets bombs one out in the 2nd to give them an early 2-0 lead but Geds replies with a leadoff shot in the home half to get one of them back straight away.
Mike Young is back at it, putting them up 5-1 in the 5th with a 3-run jack that sees the end of Nipper and then Eddie Murray adds another one a couple frames later with a solo job.
Dixon had held us pretty quiet to this point but we finally swing into action with a 3-run 7th to make a game of it.
Not for long, however, as they put us away with 3 on 4 hits in the 8th then 4 more in the 9th as this woebegone bullpen of ours implodes again and it finishes a 13-5 laugher. Not for us, though, as at 5 1/2 games back with 20 to play that might well be our season done. An 0-for-5 game by yours truly does not improve my mood.
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