The Saturday Fungo: April 13

Game 8: April 13, 1984

Tigers 13 – Red Sox 9

W: Doug Bair (0-1) L: Bruce Hurst (1-2) | Boxscore

Highlights

Talk about the tale of two games. The Tigers ambushed Bruce Hurst for seven runs in an eight-run first. Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell walked, Barbaro Garbey reached on an error.

Lance Parrish struck out and then the next eight batters reached:

• Larry Herndon: walk (1-0)

• Chet Lemon: single (3-0)

• Rod Allen: single (4-0)

• Rusty Kuntz: single (5-0), and that was it for Hurst.

• Mike Brown took over and was greeted by a Tom Brookens double. (6-0)

• Whitaker reached on an error by Jerry Remy, scoring Kuntz and Brookens. (8-0)

• Trammell doubled.

• Dave Bergman, pinch-hit for Garbey — how often does that happen in the first inning? — and walks.

• Parrish grounds into a 6-4-3 double play to end the inning.

• Milt Wilcox takes the mound with an 8-0 lead … and allows the first seven hitters to reach. He gets one more out than Hurst, but after yielding five runs, gives way to Doug Bair.

• Boston scores again in the second, to make it 8-6, and the Tigers in the fourth, on a Parrish solo shot.

• The Tigers tack on four more in the eighth off Bob Stanley and give Willie Hernandez a 13-6 lead to protect.

• Instead, the Red Sox tag him with three runs in the bottom of the eighth.

• Mercifully, the ninth is scoreless, but not exactly clean, and Tigers hold on.

• Record: 8-0

Miscellany

• Umpires: HP – Drew Coble, 1B – Jim Evans, 2B – Greg Kosc, 3B – Ted Hendry
• Time of Game: 3:11
• Attendance: 35,179

Birthdays

Doug Strange, Mark Leiter and the late Ike Brown, Jake Mooty, Roxie Lawson, Ken Jones, Rufe Clarke, Al Platte, Red Killefer, Kid Elberfeld, Herman Long

Today’s Grid

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 377 8/9 – Rarity: 159

Have a great weekend. See you tomorrow.