May 5. Gm# 15 Municipal Stadium Cleveland 2 Boston 1 11 innings
FELLER; PAIGE PITCHING MARATHON AIDED BY VERNON’S GAME WINNING HR
In one of the best pitching performances seen thus far this season, Cleveland’s Bob Feller worked 10 full innings, limiting the Boston Red Sox to just one run on two hits, before Satchel Paige took over in the top of the eleventh.
With the score tied at one all, Paige struck out two of the four batters he faced, allowing only a single to Dom DiMaggio. Johnny Pesky sacrificed Dom to second, but he died there, when Bobby Doerr fanned.
With two out in the bottom of the eleventh, Mickey Vernon blasted a game winning homerun off Earl Williams(0-3), sending the Indians fans home in a joyous mood.
Lost in the shuffle was the job that Joe Dobson did for the Red Sox. Though he allowed seven hits to Feller’s two, he matched the Cleveland legend in runs allowed, only surrendering a solo homer to Jim Hegan in the fifth. That blow tied the game at one, as DiMaggio had scored on a Doerr single the inning before.
Five more scoreless innings went by, until Vernon’s heroics in the eleventh.
Other American League scores: New York 7 Chicago 5; Detroit 6 Philadelphia 5; Washington 5 St. Louis 3
Standing of the Clubs
New York/16/13/3/.813
Cleveland/12/8/4/.667
Boston/15/8/7/.533
Detroit/15/8/7/.533
Chicago/16/8/8/.500
Philadelphia/17/7/10/.412
Washington/17/7/10/.412
St. Louis/16/3/13/.188
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