GAME 2: “All’s well that’s Greenwell”

Game MVP: Greenwell

Fenway Park

62 degrees, light rain

Hurst vs Robertson

Boston 6 San Francisco 4

Game two and the rains have come (nothing new for Boston in late October)! This time San Francisco opens the scoring with 1 run in the top of the second on a Bob Heise sacrifice fly. In the bottom of the third Boston ties it up against Robertson on a Rich Gedman 428 foot home run to right centerfield.

In the top of the 6^th the Giants broke through for 3 runs as Willie McCovery led off with a solo home run followed by a walk and a single, then another run on a Bob Heise double. Later in the inning another run scored on an Al Gallagher sac fly. Todd Benzinger got 1 back on a lead-off home run in the bottom half of the inning and Boston was on the move with two on before Jerry Johnson came in with two outs to get Jim Rice to hit a harmless fly ball to right.

With a 4-2 lead the wheels came off the cart for San Francisco’s Johnson in the bottom of the 7^th as he yielded 4 runs. Major contributors for Boston were an RBI Boggs single and a Greenwell two RBI, 423 foot home run to right center. The game would end right here as Bob Stanley and Lee Smith combined for three innings of shutout relief and a Boston two games to none lead heading back to the City By the Bay.