1972 08 20 Red Sox at White Sox Game 1

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Venue: White Sox Park
Game 1 of a Double Header

[@jimmylee2678]

The starting pitcher for the White Sox, knuckleballer Wilbur Wood, pitched an incredible 376 innings in 1972! Looking forward to this game! Thank you for so many vintage baseball games!

[@mikeaustin1323]

Look at the year Mickey Lolich had in 1971. In 1972 Gaylord Perry and Wilbur Wood were amazing

[@jimmylee2678]

@@mikeaustin1323How true. Pitching every 4th day and 300 innings pitched was the norm for ace starting pitchers back then. Today if a pitcher hits the magic number of 100 pitches he did his job.

[@Mryrhodesian]

I think Wood also pitched at one time or another both ends of a double header.

[@winstonbeech3418]

@@Mryrhodesian I remember that - I think he lost both games. I remember a DH between the Reds and Cardinals in 68. Gerry Arrigo started the first game, got shellacked in the 5th inning... then ended up coming on in relief in the second game. I sure cringed at that one, but the Reds got a split. As good as the Reds were in 67-68 the Cardinals were better. And they had Bob Gibson. The Reds didn't have a Bob Gibson. Nobody else had a Bob Gibson.

[@winstonbeech3418]

I saw a doubleheader between the A's and White Sox at Comisky in the summer of 72. It was a split, at the time the Sox were still in contention but Oakland ended up on top. We were visiting in the Chicago area, and one of my uncles and his kids were all Sox fans, and he took us to the DH. His twin brother and his kids were Cubs fans. And of course I was a Reds fan, and was hoping for a World Series and it was possible it would be against one of these two so it was a cool preview. Of course it ended up being Oakland and the Reds made them work for it. My favorite moment in that series was the end of game 5 - Blue Moon Odom trying to score on a pop foul to Morgan - and he gets thrown out to end the game. Loved Al Michaels call of that one.

[@theworldwariioldtimeradioc8676]

I had forgotten about that goofy turf configuration at Sox Park, artificial infield and natural outfield.

[@onesmoothstone5680]

Only for couple of yrs thank God!

[@timdailey2690]

Til end of 75 season

[@timrobinson8548]

I loved Dick Allen's quote on Astroturf if a horse can't eat it I don't want to play on it

[@Hammondguy88]

My old Sox

[@bstnd3]

The White Sox won this game 9-7 on Pat Kelly's 3-run homer with 2 outs in the last of the 9th.

[@theworldwariioldtimeradioc8676]

Pitcher McLaughlin (sp) died in a fire in the early 1980’s.

[@williamdunphy352]

Ned Martin (PBP) 1-2/5-6/8-9 Dave Martin (PBP) 3-4/7

[@hf1556]

Carlos May played in Japan in 1978.In those days Sadaharu Oh hit his 800th home run.

[@timdailey2690]

His birthday is May 17. He wore 17 so he was the only player in history to have his birthday month and date on his back.

[@maverick1956hk]

What happened to the bottom of the 9th?!

[@darwinblinks]

The date of this game is August 19

[@jimmylee2678]

The date August 20, 1972 is correct as posted. Tommy Harper hit a leadoff home run on 8/19 for the Bosox against Tom Bradley. In this game he grounds out third to first leading off the game off of Wilbur Wood.

[@CallMeCygnus]

@@jimmylee2678 Also, in the 1st inning, Ned Martin mentions Eddie Popowski's birthday, which is 8/20/1913.

[@jimmylee2678]

@@CallMeCygnus You're right!

[@timdailey2690]

@@CallMeCygnus Eddie was 59. Mr Twombley who he also mentions was listening was born on that date in 1876!