BANKS' 3 HRS LEADS ROUT OF BOSOX
Tribe Hits 6 HRs
BOSTON, Oct. 1 (AP) - Appearing in just his eighth game of the year, George
Banks hit three home runs and drove in six, pacing the Cleveland Indians in a
13-4 shellacking of the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park. Banks become just
the sixth major leaguer--and third American League player--to hit three home
runs in a single game this season. As a team, Cleveland belted six home
runs, tying them for second largest total in a game this year. The Kansas
City Athletics hit seven home runs in a 12-10 victory over the Washington
Senators on June 21.
The Indians ran out to a sizable lead in the first two innings and never
trailed. Banks started off the scoring with a two-run homer in the first
inning off Boston starter Ed Connolly. In the second, Tommie Agee drove in
a run with his first hit of the year and then Cleveland starter Sonny Siebert
helped himself with a two-run single.
The Red Sox cut the lead to 5-1 in the bottom of the second on Eddie Bressoud's
RBI single.
But the Indians blew the game open once and for all with three runs in the
sixth. Max Alvis hit his 22nd home run of the season, a two-run blow, off
Bill Monbouquette and Billy Moran followed later in the inning with his fourth
of the year, a solo shot, to give Cleveland an 8-1 advantage.
Boston pushed back on Al Smith's pinch hit two-run single in the bottom of the
sixth, cutting the lead to 8-3, but that was as close as the Red Sox would get.
Banks' second homer of the game, this one off Dick Radatz in the seventh, scored
Dick Howser, who had reached on an error, to increase the lead to 10-3 and
Woodie Held's solo homer in the eighth pushed the deficit to eight runs.
Banks' third home run of the contest was two-run blow in the ninth, and merely
added insult to injury by making the score 13-3. The Red Sox scored a
meaningless consolation run in the bottom of the ninth on Russ Nixon's ground
out to account for the final score.
The three home runs and six runs batted in by Banks are both high marks for a
Cleveland player this season.
10/1/1964, Cle64-Bos64, Fenway Park 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP 1964 Indians 2 3 0 0 0 3 2 1 2 13 10 2 0 3 1964 Red Sox 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 4 10 2 6 2 Indians AB R H BI AVG Red Sox AB R H BI AVG Salmon 1b 5 1 1 0 .284 Mantilla 2b 3 0 1 0 .236 Howser ss 4 2 0 0 .241 Radatz p 1 0 0 0 .100 Banks,G lf 5 4 4 6 .333 Schilling ph 1 0 0 0 .169 Alvis 3b 4 1 1 2 .268 Conigliaro lf 2 0 0 0 .273 Romano c 4 0 0 0 .257 Horton,T ph 2 0 0 0 .228 Held rf 3 2 1 1 .235 Yastrzemski cf 3 0 0 0 .264 Moran,B 2b 3 2 1 1 .227 Mejias ph 1 0 0 0 .220 Agee cf 4 1 1 1 .059 Stuart 1b 2 1 1 0 .291 Siebert p 2 0 1 2 .162 Williams,D ph 1 1 0 0 .183 Wagner ph 1 0 0 0 .237 Thomas,L rf 4 1 4 0 .258 Bell,Ga p 1 0 0 0 .214 Malzone 3b 2 0 0 0 .258 36 13 10 13 Smith,A ph 2 0 1 2 .203 Bressoud ss 3 0 1 1 .327 Guindon ph 1 1 1 0 .125 Nixon c 4 0 1 1 .222 Connolly p 0 0 0 0 .077 Monbouquette p 1 0 0 0 .026 Jones,D 2b 2 0 0 0 .194 35 4 10 4 Indians INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Siebert W 13-10 6.0 7 3 3 2 5 88 53 4.33 Bell,Ga S 4 3.0 3 1 1 0 1 48 31 3.13 9.0 10 4 4 2 6 136 84 Red Sox INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Connolly L 2-9 1.0 3 5 4 3 1 38 16 4.93 Monbouquette 4.2 3 3 3 0 2 49 33 4.20 Radatz 3.1 4 5 3 0 5 65 44 2.56 9.0 10 13 10 3 8 152 93 Cle: Wagner batted for Siebert in the 7th Bos: Jones,D inserted at 2b in the 6th Horton,T batted for Conigliaro in the 6th Williams,D batted for Stuart in the 6th Smith,A batted for Malzone in the 6th Horton,T moved to lf in the 7th Williams,D moved to 1b in the 7th Smith,A moved to 3b in the 7th Mejias batted for Yastrzemski in the 8th Mejias moved to cf in the 9th Guindon batted for Bressoud in the 9th Schilling batted for Radatz in the 9th E-Alvis, Moran,B, Conigliaro, Smith,A. 2B-Salmon(13), Thomas,L(26), Smith,A(2), Guindon(1). HR-Banks,G 3(5), Alvis(22), Held(18), Moran,B(4). RBI-Banks,G 6(9), Alvis 2(51), Held(54), Moran,B(28), Agee(1), Siebert 2(8), Bressoud(72), Nixon(19), Smith,A 2(29). K-Salmon, Howser, Alvis, Held 2, Agee, Wagner, Bell,Ga, Mantilla 2, Yastrzemski, Stuart, Bressoud, Williams,D. BB-Howser, Held, Moran,B, Monbouquette, Williams,D. HBP-Alvis. HB-Connolly. WP-Bell,Ga. GWRBI: Banks,G Temperature: 48, Sky: clear, Wind: in from center at 10 MPH. Attendance: 4,945 Game Time: 2:51