Red Sox Fined by Manager, Beaten by Orioles

June 24, 1965 - The Boston Red Sox, “more than several” of whom got slapped in the pocketbook by manager Billy Herman for post-curfew misadventures in Baltimore last night, got slapped by the Orioles where it hurt them almost as much.

While Milt Pappas cruised to his eighth win of the season on a seven-hitter, the Birds bombarded three Boston pitchers for a dozen hits and a 4-1 victory which wasn’t as close as the score might indicate.

The issue was settled almost before 5,669 Memorial Stadium patrons could record the evidence on their scorecards.

After Russ Snyder greeted the visitors’ Bill Monbouquette with the first of three hits and Boog Powell drew a walk, Brooks Robinson exploded his fifth homer of the season 380 feet to left for a 3-0 first-inning advantage.

In the third, Luis Aparicio drilled Monbo’s first pitch of the inning into the front-row seats in left some 340 feet away.

The rest was simply much-needed batting practice for the O’s, whose 12th triumph in the last 14 starts advanced Baltimore within one game of league-leading Minnesota. The Birds sit only a half-game behind Chicago and Cleveland, which share second place.

When Herman was asked tonight what prompted him to make his first bed check last night since taking over this year as Red Sox manager, he said:“I had heard a few rumors. I don’t go much for rumors, but there they were. And we’re not playing too well, and that prompts such a thing. You don’t think of such things when everything’s going good. When they’re bad, it’s my job to put the finger on why.”

Asked why he wouldn’t name the players disciplined, Herman said: “We wouldn’t gain anything by naming them except to embarrass them, and I think maybe the whole club could stand some embarrassment now rather than a few individuals.”

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