Word: culp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pitching is decidedly the Boston weak point. Jim Lonborg must make a comeback after a disastrous season last year, when he won only six games. Jose Santiago is our indefinitely to add to the pitching woes. Three probably starters are Ray Culp, Dick Ellsworth, and Ken Brett...
Tiger catcher Bill Freehan set the scene for the whole tragi-comic affair by bouncing a freak single off the third base bag. Red Sox starter Ray Culp. who had pitched out of jams in the first and second innings, dug himself in again by walking Jim Northrup...
...Oyler popped up, but Detroit's right-handed pitching ace Earl Wilson slashed a line drive into the right-center field alley to produce a run. Culp then walked Dick McAuliffe (one of four the shortstop drew in the game) to load the bases...
After a visit from manager Dick Williams, Culp delivered a meatball to Don Wert who knocked it sharply to right field. Rookie right fielder Joe LaHoud bobbled the ball, two runs scored and the flag sagged...
...attempt to double off McAuliffe. It was a good throw, but Dalton Jones couldn't find the handle, and the ball skittered away, letting McAuliffe score. Before the horrible inning was over, Willie Horton got a wind-blown double to center, Freehan another scratch single both off the hapless Culp--and Oyler a run-scoring single off reliever Lee Stange...