September 21, 1985: Detroit Tigers (79-68) @ Boston Red Sox (76-71)
We remain six adrift despite yesterday’s win, with the Yankees now leading the O’s by a half-game with 15 to play. At least if we can’t catch ‘em, we might have a say in who gets it done. Jeff Sellers up for us tonight taking on Walt Terrell, who at 16-7 / 3.48 is putting together a nice season indeed for the Tigers. A nice little Saturday afternoon crowd of about 30 thousand in attendance at the Fen.
Bill Buckner YTD stats entering the game
Game Recap
Doubles to Sweet Lou Whitaker and Kirk Gibson get them a 1st-inning run and a Johnny Grubb solo shot adds another in the 2nd.
Sellers looks no match for their big top-order bats as he gives up two more in the 3rd, but I manage to get one of them back in the home half with a single to make it 4-1.
Give Jeff credit, he hangs tough and holds them until we get a couple more to make a game of it in the 5th as I add a couple more ribbies to the season’s tally.
They edge away again with a run in the next and that’s Sellers done for the day with Lollar relieving him and getting us out of a big bases-loaded jam with a timely GIDP.
Loose defence costs us another run in the 7th and it ends up being a costly one as we get it back to 6-5 on a 2-run double by Hoffman in the 8th but go down quietly in the 9th to lose a close one.
Best Performances, News & Highlights of the Day
- Some ferocious contests today as you'd expect with all four races tight; the Twins' 8-7 win in 16 over the Royals - despite 5 hits from Frank White - is undoubtedly the pick of them.
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- MLB Debuts: Colin Ward
- Daily Notes: IRL, Wade Boggs ties Tris Speaker's club mark of 222 hits with a single in the 2nd inning of their game against Detroit. Another in the 5th, his 185th, breaks the mark set by Willie Wilson in 1980 to set a new AL record. His final total for the season of 187 will stand as the record until 2001.