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Sunshine
Boston Globe, May 19, 1941
SURGING SOX WIN FOURTH STRAIGHT
Gibson's Two-Out Double Wins Game In Ninth
BOSTON--The biggest crowd of the season came out to Fenway Park on a glorious spring Sunday, and they went home with smiles on their faces as the hometown team pulled out a thrilling 8-7 victory over the Chicago White Sox with two outs in the ninth inning.
The league-leading Red Sox' victory was their fourth straight, and enabled them to maintain their three-game lead over the Detroit Tigers, who also won yesterday.
Catcher Josh Gibson ripped a game-deciding double into the left-field corner, after the White Sox had seemed to wrench the game away from the Bostonians with two runs of their own in the top of the inning.
Gibson, who has been off to an uncharacteristically slow start this season, grinned from ear to ear as he told the story of his game-winning hit.
"I was looking for a fastball, and Len Brown threw me one, belt high," Gibson recalled. "I haven't guessed right many times this season. This one felt good."
Josh's two-bagger scored Lou Gehrig from first, where he stood after knocking his third base hit of the game. Big Lou was running with the pitch, and his veteran legs churned wildly as he tore around the bases like a much younger man.
"It's easy to feel young when you're in first place," Gehrig, who is now seventeen hits shy of the 3,000 mark and still going strong as his thirty-eighth birthday approaches.
Tex Hughson, Boston's rookie relief star, got the win after coming to the rescue of starter Jim Weaver in the ninth frame.
The Red Sox will send Mike O'Farrell, who leads the American League with a 2.09 ERA, to the mound in an attempt to continue the winning streak. O'Farrell's seven wins places him one behind the Yankees' Gene Schott for the league lead.
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