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July 31, 1963 at Cleveland Stadium, Game 2 of a doubleheader
INDIANS 6TH: Azcue struck out; Luplow flied out to right; Held
homered; Ramos homered; Francona homered; Brown homered; SPRING
REPLACED FOYTACK (PITCHING); Kirkland singled to center; Kindall
singled to right [Kirkland to third]; Whitfield grounded out
(first unassisted); 4 R, 6 H, 0 E, 2 LOB. Angels 1, Indians 9.
Common threads to that game and tonight's game in Fenway Park, a man named Francona.
UPDATE - Jack Curry of the New York Times tracked down Foytack at his home in Tennessee to tell him that he had company.
While Foytack, now 76, said he was never bothered by giving up four homers in a row, he expressed concern for Wright. Foytack, who was nicked in the second-to-last year of his career, said he planned to write a letter to Wright and mail it Monday.
“I kind of feel bad for the kid because he’s young,” Foytack said. “I’m going to tell him that these things happen and that he shouldn’t let it get to him.”
I was going to say "shallow right", but I've actually seen that sort of thing with inside-the-park homers, so never mind.
That's why I didn't use a first name.
Beyond that it's one of those flukey records that happens by chance in a massive sample. For all of the fireworks the Red Sox scored 4 runs in the innning which is not uncommon.
The 4+1 game was on a Monday night, so it's likely that Morgan and Miller may have taken a night off.
I believe the Sunday night game they had worked the day before was a Yankees-Red Sox game (actually the second game of a doubleheader.)
http://www.vintagecardtraders.org/virtual/64topps/64topps.html
Three of the instances were in the 1960s.
6/8/61 Milwaukee Braves - Mathews, Aaron, Adcock, Frank Thomas (with Joe Torre on deck)
7/31/63 Cleveland - described above
5/2/64 Minnesota - Oliva, Allison, Hall, Killebrew
9/18/06 LA Dodgers - Kent, Drew, Martin, Anderson
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