1949 Boston Red Sox season

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The 1949 Boston Red Sox season involved the Red Sox finishing 2nd in the American League with a record of 96 wins and 58 losses.

[edit] Regular season: Yankees and Red Sox toe-to-toe

DiMaggio came back from heel surgery to demolish the Red Sox in a three-game series at Fenway Park. he hit four home runs, three of them game winners. it sent the Sox reeling, and they fell 12.5 games back by July 4, but they rallied and went into Yankee Stadium for the final two games of the season with a one-game lead. they neede just one win in two games and were to pitch Mel Parnell and then Ellis Kinder. The Yanks beat parnell 5-4, as Joe Black had a great relief appearance for New York. And so it came down to the second game. It was kinder vs. Vic Raschi.

[edit] 31 Years And Sadly Counting

The Yanks led 1-0 after seven innings, having scored in the first. In the eighth, manager Joe McCarthy lifted Kinder for a pinch hitter who did not come through. Then he brought in Parnell in relief, and Parnell yielede a homer to Tommy Henrich and a single to Yogi Berra. Parnell was replaced by Tex Hughson, who had been on the disabled list and said hia arm still hurt. But he came on and, with the bases loaded, Jerry Coleman hit a soft liner that Al Zarilla in right tried to shoestring but missed, and it went for a triple and three runs.

In the ninth inning the Sox rallied for three runs but still fell short, and for the second year in a row McCarthy's managing was called into question. Why, said critics, with a power-laden lineup, pinch hit for Kinder? See what happened in the ninth? McCarthy aws on thin ice. Hughson also claimed McCarthy ruined his career by making him pitch with a sore arm.

[edit] Season standings

[edit] Roster

[edit] Player stats

[edit] Batting

Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In

[edit] Other batters

[edit] Starting pitchers

[edit] Other pitchers

[edit] Relief pitchers

[edit] Awards and Honors

• Ted Williams, OF, American League MVP

[edit] References

• 1949 Boston Red Sox team page at Baseball Reference
• 1949 Boston Red Sox season at baseball-almanac.com

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