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...game was a classic pitcher's duel, as Tiger Andy Kannenburg proved equal to the task, holding the Crimson hitless until a single by Halas in the fifth broke up the no-no. Yet it wasn't until the sixth that the scoring drought was broken...
While the Sox watched the drops, the Yankees dropped the Sox one-half game in the standings with their 97th win of the season, a 4-2 victory over the Indians in Cleveland. Mike Torrez got his 17th win of the year, with three innings of hitless relief help from Sparky Lyle, in his 69th appearance of the year...
...four of those innings, Harvard's Tim Clifford (now 4-3) had also pitched hitless baseball. The Eagles had tallied an unearned run in the second, but it was a fifth-inning home run which broke Clifford's no-hitter, and a two-run sixth (thanks to a pair of hits and three walks, two of which forced in runs) which broke the game open and sent the Crimson freshman packing...
Game 5 was the story of a young fastball pitcher and an aging power hitter. The pitcher, Cincinnati Southpaw Don Gullett, 24, fired the ball with such velocity that he retired 16 consecutive Red Sox batters in one stretch. Meanwhile Reds First Baseman Tony Perez, 33, who had gone hitless in the Series, cracked two home runs over the leftfield wall. The final margin: Reds...
...including Babe Ruth, whom he held to just nine home runs in ten seasons. Grove's two-season peak of 59 wins and only nine losses in 1930-31 remains unequaled, and so, for that matter, does his sizzling temper. Lefty often loudly chewed out teammates as "hitless wonders" after close losses, or "butterfingered s.o.b.s" when they committed errors. Just before he retired at 41, in 1941, he became the first pitcher in the "live ball" era to win 300 games...