1949 Boston Red Sox season
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1949 Boston Red Sox season
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| Owner(s) | Tom Yawkey | |
| General manager(s) | Joe Cronin | |
| Manager(s) | Joe McCarthy | |
| Local television | WBZ-TV/WNAC-TV (Jim Britt, Tom Hussey, Bump Hadley) |
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| Local radio | WHDH (Jim Britt, Tom Hussey, Leo Egan) |
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The 1949 Boston Red Sox season involved the Red Sox finishing second in the American League with a record of 96 wins and 58 losses. The Red Sox set a Major League record which still stands for the most base on balls by a team in a season, with 835[1].
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Regular season
During the season, Mel Parnell was the last pitcher to win at least 25 games in one season for the Red Sox in the 20th century.[2] George Kell beat Ted Williams for the American League batting title by 0.0002 percentage points.[3]
Ted Williams set a major league record for the most consecutive games reaching base safely with 84. The streak began on July 1, and ended on September 28. The streak was ended by Washington Senators pitcher Ray Scarborough.[3] Williams was in the on-deck circle when Johnny Pesky made the final out, depriving him of one more chance to extend the streak.
The trade that wasn't
In 1949, Boston Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey and Yankees GM Larry MacPhail verbally agreed to trade Joe DiMaggio for Williams, but MacPhail refused to include Yogi Berra.[4]
Yankees and Red Sox toe-to-toe
Joe DiMaggio came back from heel surgery to demolish the Red Sox in a three-game series at Fenway Park. He hit four home runs, three of them game winners. It sent the Sox reeling, and they fell 12.5 games back by July 4. But Boston rallied late in the season and went into Yankee Stadium for the final two games of the schedule with a one-game lead. The Red Sox needed just one win in two games and were to pitch Mel Parnell in the first game. After trailing 4-0, the Yankees came back to beat Parnell 5-4, as Johnny Lindell hit an eighth-inning, game-winning, home run and Joe Page had a great relief appearance for New York.[5][6] And so it came down to the last game of the season. It was Ellis Kinder facing Vic Raschi.
The Yankees led 1-0 after seven innings, having scored in the first. In the eighth inning, manager Joe McCarthy lifted Kinder for a pinch hitter who did not come through. Then he brought in Mel Parnell in relief, and Parnell yielded a homer to Tommy Henrich and a single to Yogi Berra. Parnell was replaced by Tex Hughson, who had been on the disabled list and said his arm still hurt. But he came on and, with the bases loaded, Jerry Coleman hit a soft liner that Al Zarilla in right field tried to make a shoestring catch, but he missed and it went for a triple and three runs.[7]
In the ninth inning the Red Sox rallied for three runs but still fell short. "Why", said critics, "with a power-laden lineup, pinch hit for Kinder? See what happened in the ninth?" McCarthy had walked on thin ice. Hughson also claimed his manager ruined his career by making him pitch with a sore arm.
It was the second year in a row McCarthy's late-season managing was called into question. In 1948, McCarthy had chosen journeyman pitcher Denny Galehouse to start the tie breaker that decided who went to the 1948 World Series, which the Red Sox lost to the Cleveland Indians.
Season standings
| American League | W | L | Pct. | GB |
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| New York Yankees | 97 | 57 | .630 | -- |
| Boston Red Sox | 96 | 58 | .623 | 1 |
| Cleveland Indians | 89 | 65 | .578 | 8 |
| Detroit Tigers | 87 | 67 | .565 | 10 |
| Philadelphia Athletics | 81 | 73 | .526 | 16 |
| Chicago White Sox | 63 | 91 | .409 | 34 |
| St. Louis Browns | 53 | 101 | .344 | 44 |
| Washington Senators | 50 | 104 | .325 | 47 |
Opening Day lineup
| 7 | Dom DiMaggio | CF |
| 6 | Johnny Pesky | 3B |
| 9 | Ted Williams | LF |
| 5 | Vern Stephens | SS |
| 1 | Bobby Doerr | 2B |
| 23 | Tommy O'Brien | RF |
| 3 | Walt Dropo | 1B |
| 8 | Birdie Tebbetts | C |
| 15 | Joe Dobson | P |
Notable transactions
- November 15, 1948: Wally Moses was released by the Red Sox.[8]
- November 24, 1948: Ray Jablonski was drafted from the Red Sox by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1948 minor league draft.[9]
Roster
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Pitchers
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Infielders
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Outfielders
Other batters
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Player stats
Batting
Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in
| Pos | Player | G | AB | H | Avg. | HR | RBI |
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| 3B | Johnny Pesky | 148 | 604 | 185 | .306 | 2 | 69 |
| OF | Ted Williams | 155 | 566 | 194 | .343 | 43 | 159 |
Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in
| Player | G | AB | H | Avg. | HR | RBI |
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Pitching
Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
| Player | G | IP | W | L | ERA | SO |
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| Mel Parnell | 39 | 295.1 | 25 | 7 | 2.77 | 122 |
| Joe Dobson | 33 | 212.2 | 14 | 12 | 3.85 | 87 |
Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
| Player | G | IP | W | L | ERA | SO |
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Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
| Player | G | W | L | SV | ERA | SO |
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| Harry Dorish | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.35 | 5 |
Awards and honors
- Ted Williams, OF, American League MVP
- Ted Williams, American League leader, home runs (43) and runs batted in (159)[3]
- Ted Williams, Major League record, Most consecutive games reached base safely (84).[3]
Farm system
See also: Minor league baseball
| Level | Team | League | Manager |
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| AAA | Louisville Colonels | American Association | Fred Walters and Mike Ryba |
| AA | Birmingham Barons | Southern Association | Pinky Higgins |
| A | Scranton Red Sox | Eastern League | Mike Ryba and Jack Burns |
| B | Roanoke Red Sox | Piedmont League | Red Marion |
| C | San Jose Red Sox | California League | Marv Owen |
| C | Oneonta Red Sox | Canadian-American League | Eddie Popowski |
| D | Valley Rebels | Georgia-Alabama League | Jesse Dana, Mal Morgan and Woodrow Bottoms |
| D | Marion Red Sox | Ohio-Indiana League | Wally Millies |
| D | Hornell Maple Leafs | PONY League | Marius Russo |
LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: San Jose, Marion[10]
Notes
- ^ "Single Season Bases on Balls Records". Baseball-Almanac.com. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_wk2.shtml. Retrieved 14 May 2012.
- ^ Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures, 2008 Edition, p. 99, David Nemec and Scott Flatow, A Signet Book, Penguin Group, New York, NY, ISBN 978-0-451-22363-0
- ^ a b c d Baseball’s Top 100: The Game’s Greatest Records, p. 44, Kerry Banks, 2010, Greystone Books, Vancouver, BC, ISBN 978-1-55365-507-7
- ^ ESPN.com - Page2 - The List: Baseball's biggest rumors
- ^ "Yanks, Sox Settle Title In New York". The Victoria Advocate. Associated Press: p. 8. 29 September 1949. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TTUcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DloEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6368,2208137&dq=johnny+lindell&hl=en. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
- ^ "October 1, 1949 Red Sox-Yankees box score". retrosheet.org. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1949/B10010NYA1949.htm. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
- ^ "October 2, 1949 Red Sox-Yankees box score". retrosheet.org. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1949/B10020NYA1949.htm. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
- ^ Wally Moses page at Baseball Reference
- ^ Ray Jablonski page at Baseball Reference
- ^ Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, N.C.: Baseball America, 2007
References
- 1949 Boston Red Sox team page at Baseball Reference
- 1949 Boston Red Sox season at baseball-almanac.com
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