1942 Red Sox Walk Offs
From SoSH
- 5/2 - Boston 11, St. Louis 10
The Red Sox came from behind twice in this game and slugged out a win behind the bats of Ted Williams and Bobby Doerr. Teddy Ballgame clubbed his fifth homerun of the season in the 9th inning to tie the score at 10 and Doerr laced an RBI double to deliver the walkoff victory.
WP - Mace Brown
- 5/6 - Boston 3, Chicago 1 - 10 innings
Bobby Doerr blasted an 8th inning shot to knot the score at one off White Sox pitcher Ted Lyons. This was Doerr's anticlimactic shot of the day, he saved the real heroics for extras. Launching his second round-tripper of the game, Doerr's three RBI accounted for all the Red Sox scoring and gave Boston the W.
WP - Joe Dobson
- 6/7 (1) - Boston 3, Chicago 2
The Red Sox came back in extraordinary fashion in the first contest of this double-header against Chicago. Bobby Doerr set the stage for drama when he tied the score at two with a homerun in the 9th. Jim Tabor followed suit off Ted Lyons to give Boston the win.
WP - Skeeter Newsome
- 6/7 (2) - Boston 3, Chicago 2
Lou Finney delivered the winning run in the final frame of the nightcap of an already magical twin-bill.
WP - Charlie Wagner
- 6/11 - Boston 8, St. Louis 7
After allowing the Browns to tie the game at seven in their half of the 9th, the Red Sox pushed one across as well on the day that Johnny Pesky enlisted as a Navy pilot.
WP - Mace Brown
- 6/13 - Boston 6, Detroit 5
Catcher Bill Conroy picked up the game winning hit in the 9th to give the Red Sox their sixth straight victory.
WP - Mace Brown
- 6/14 (2) - Boston 2, Detroit 1 - 11 innings
Tony Lupien, who had taken over for Jimmie Foxx at first base following his sale to Chicago was the hero of both ends of this double-header. The Harvard grad had delivered the winning run in routine fashion earlier in the day, but saved the true theatrics for the nightcap. The walkoff victory extended the Red Sox' win streak to eight games.
WP - Tex Hughson
- 7/9 - Boston 2, Detroit 1 - 11 innings
Boston player-manager Joe Cronin stepped in for a pinch-hit appearance with the bases loaded in the 11th inning of this affair against Detroit. Cronin delivered a long sac-fly that gave the Red Sox the win.
WP - Charlie Wagner
- 7/17 - Boston 2, Chicago 1 - 12 innings
Ted Williams' single saved the day for the Red Sox, delivering the winning run in the 12th. The victory earned a split in the four game set.
WP - Charlie Wagner
- 8/15 (2) - Boston 7, Washington 6
Lou Finney's two RBI triple delivered the Red Sox the sweep of the doubleheader versus the Senators. Ted Williams had launched his 25th homerun of the season in the first affair, helping Tex Hughson to his ninth straight victory.
WP - Charlie Wagner
- 8/18 - Boston 8, New York 7 - 10 innings
Dom DiMaggio got the best of his brother and the New York Yankees on this day as The Little Professor plated the winning run on a sacrifice fly in extra innings. Bobby Doerr and Johnny Pesky had homered earlier in the game.
WP - Mace Brown
- 8/25 (1) - Boston 4, Cleveland 3 - 11 innings
WP - Ken Chase
- 9/2 (1) - Boston 3, Detroit 2
Ted Williams' 28th dinger of the year tied the game in the 8th inning of this twinbill opener against the Tigers. Johnny Pesky ended it with a single in the 9th. Boston would win the second game as well, making it 22 victories in 26 games for the Sox.
WP - Charlie Wagner
