This Day in Red Sox History.
August 26, 2008
1945: Dave “Boo” Ferriss picks up his 20th win of the season, by driving in the game winning double in the 10th inning.
1957: Boston hits four home runs and drives in 10 runs in the third inning, to devastate the A’s by a score of 16-0 in Kansas City’s Municipal Stadium.
1959: In Chicago’s Comiskey Park, the White Sox Celebrate “Al Smith Day, any fan named “Smith, Schmidt, or Smythe” is given a free ticket and a button that says “I’m Smith and I’m for Al”. Ironically Smith is held hitless, as Bill Monbouquette and the Red Sox win 7-6.
1962: The Sox not only loses both games of a double header to the Cleveland Indians (10-5 and 4-0), Dick Donovan picks up his 100 Major League win and ends Boston’s 13 game straight games with a homer.
1965: Carlos Quintana is born in Estado Miranda, Venezuela and Jeff Richardson is born in Grand Island, NE.
1966: With Boston leading the Orioles by a score of 2-0, both Vic Roznovsky and Boog Powell come off the bench as pinch hitters, and both hit home runs in the bottom of the ninth. The O’s go on to win the game in the thirteenth inning. This was only the third time in Major League history the there have been back to back pinch home runs.
1972: Boston scores five runs in the top of the ninth to beat Texas by a score of 7-6.
1990: For the third game in a row behind pitching of Greg Harris the Boston shuts out Toronto by a score of 1-0.
1995: Oakland beats Boston 11-4. C Mike MacFarlane’s grand Slam is the only runs scored by the Red Sox in today’s contest. It is the 101st grand slam of the year in the Majors, break the record set in 1987.
2001: The Red Sox and the Texas Ranger play for 18 innings. The game clocks in at 6 hours and 35 minutes becoming the longest game in Ranger history. Bill Haselman out runs a potential double play to allow Chad Curtis to cross the plate to win the game for Texas by a score of 8-7.
2002: Boston wins a 10 inning game with the Angles by a score of 10-9. Manny Ramirez has five hits including a pair of home runs.
-Southstander
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