Foytack adds home run
Tigers belt Bombers, 11-3
18-hit attack stuns New Yorkers
Baseball in 1961 staff
DETROIT-Mickey Mantle hit a mammoth home run. It was majestic.
Then again, so were the Tigers.
The suddenly roaring Tigers matched their season high in runs and set a new one in hits en route to a 11-3 thrashing of the New York Yankees in front of a crowd that wholeheartedly roared their approval in 2 big innings, the 4th(4 runs) and the 6th(6 runs).
The 18-hit attack broke down like this:
-Norm Cash, 4 hits(3 singles, double)
-Al Kaline, 3 hits(3-run homer in the 6th, single, double)
-Dick Brown, 3 hits(3-run homer in the 4th, 2 singles)
-Chico Fernandez, 3 hits(double, 2 singles)
-Jake Wood, Bill Bruton each tripled.
Every Tiger hitter contributed either an RBI or run scored, including Paul Foytack, who greeted fellow pitcher Bob Turley with a home run in the 8th. The same Foytack who also pitched 8-2/3 innings, setting down the first 10 Yankees, then after Mantle's 3-run homer in the 4th, proceeded to retire 11 more in order en route to his 1st win, outlasting Bud Daley.
Bob Scheffing was beaming with pride in a joyous Tiger locker room afterwards saying, "If you saw us against the Angels Sunday, you know we're capable of putting together a bunch of hits and runs. Yesterday, we fell into our familiar rut of not producing, but as you saw tonight, we had it on all cylinders from the 4th inning on."
Yankees skipper Ralph Houk was all smiles on the Mantle home run, but the smiles ended there.
"Mick's coming out of it as you saw, but we were thoroughly whipped by a buzzsaw tonight. Those two innings killed us and aside from that one inning, our offense never got in rhythm against Foytack. He fixed us but good tonight, best thing we can do is forget about it and come back, win the series tomorrow afternoon."
NYY 3-4-1 DET 11-18-0
WP-Foytack LP-Daley
DET 5-7 NYY 8-6
Series winds up tomorrow with Rollie Sheldon opposing Don Mossi in the rubber game.
Tigers belt Bombers, 11-3
18-hit attack stuns New Yorkers
Baseball in 1961 staff
DETROIT-Mickey Mantle hit a mammoth home run. It was majestic.
Then again, so were the Tigers.
The suddenly roaring Tigers matched their season high in runs and set a new one in hits en route to a 11-3 thrashing of the New York Yankees in front of a crowd that wholeheartedly roared their approval in 2 big innings, the 4th(4 runs) and the 6th(6 runs).
The 18-hit attack broke down like this:
-Norm Cash, 4 hits(3 singles, double)
-Al Kaline, 3 hits(3-run homer in the 6th, single, double)
-Dick Brown, 3 hits(3-run homer in the 4th, 2 singles)
-Chico Fernandez, 3 hits(double, 2 singles)
-Jake Wood, Bill Bruton each tripled.
Every Tiger hitter contributed either an RBI or run scored, including Paul Foytack, who greeted fellow pitcher Bob Turley with a home run in the 8th. The same Foytack who also pitched 8-2/3 innings, setting down the first 10 Yankees, then after Mantle's 3-run homer in the 4th, proceeded to retire 11 more in order en route to his 1st win, outlasting Bud Daley.
Bob Scheffing was beaming with pride in a joyous Tiger locker room afterwards saying, "If you saw us against the Angels Sunday, you know we're capable of putting together a bunch of hits and runs. Yesterday, we fell into our familiar rut of not producing, but as you saw tonight, we had it on all cylinders from the 4th inning on."
Yankees skipper Ralph Houk was all smiles on the Mantle home run, but the smiles ended there.
"Mick's coming out of it as you saw, but we were thoroughly whipped by a buzzsaw tonight. Those two innings killed us and aside from that one inning, our offense never got in rhythm against Foytack. He fixed us but good tonight, best thing we can do is forget about it and come back, win the series tomorrow afternoon."
NYY 3-4-1 DET 11-18-0
WP-Foytack LP-Daley
DET 5-7 NYY 8-6
Series winds up tomorrow with Rollie Sheldon opposing Don Mossi in the rubber game.
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