Sox Clip Ford, Yanks, 4-1

May 13, 1965 - The way the Yankees are going these days, when Doc Edwards fouls off four pitches on a 3-2 count, it’s a ninth-inning rally.

The Yankees were docile victims of the Red Sox again tonight at Fenway Park, 4-1. This time they were beaten by the kind of pitcher history says is their lamb.

Dave Morehead throws good stuff but has difficulty with direction. Pitchers like that fall behind against the Yanks, come in with a pitch, and watch the outfielders spin around to play handball off the fence.

Morehead pitched eight innings to win opening day and totaled eight innings in his next three starts. He took an ERA of 8.44 against the Yankees tonight and walked six. The Yankees left 10 on base and have the smashing total of 25 hits and eight runs to show for the four games in Boston. The pitching was good enough to win three times, maybe four. Instead, the Yankees lost three and made a seventh-place team well for a while, just as they did for ninth-place Washington over the weekend.

“How many runs batted in this series?” asked Joe Pepitone. “Sickening,” Joe observed over his .207 batting average.

Manager Johnny Keane is willing to accept that a team batting average of .213 might make the players press a little. The players recognize this, too. 

“You can’t control that,” said Tom Tresh, who has a rare .286 average and an understanding of his teammates. “You can’t tell yourself you’re trying too hard. Everybody tries to pick the club up.”

Tresh understands the club’s problems are bounded on one side by Elston Howard’s plaster-clad elbow in New Jersey and on the other by the adhesive on Roger Maris’s thigh in Missouri. “I know we’ll come out of it,” Tresh said. “The thing is we got to start to win consistently soon. We can’t get too far back.

“We’re not down yet. The guys are ticked off because they’re losing. They don’t like to lose. It’s all positive thinking. I haven’t heard a word about not winning the pennant.”

No, but there have been some uncomfortable looks at the standings. The Yankees currently sit in eighth place, 7½ games behind the league-leading White Sox. Their record of 10-16 is identical to that of the New York Mets.

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