1949 Boston Red Sox season
| 1949 Boston Red Sox | |
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| Owner(s) | Tom Yawkey |
| General manager(s) | Joe Cronin |
| Manager(s) | Joe McCarthy |
| Local television |
WBZ-TV/WNAC-TV (Jim Britt, Tom Hussey, Bump Hadley) |
| Local radio |
WHDH (Jim Britt, Tom Hussey, Leo Egan) |
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The 1949 Boston Red Sox season was the 49th season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished second in the American League (AL) with a record of 96 wins and 58 losses. The Red Sox set a major league record which still stands for the most base on balls by a team in a season, with 835.
During the season, Mel Parnell was the last pitcher to win at least 25 games in one season for the Red Sox in the 20th century.George Kell beat Ted Williams for the American League batting title by 0.0002 percentage points.
Ted Williams set a major league record for the most consecutive games reaching base safely with 84. The streak began on July 1, and ended on September 28. The streak was ended by Washington Senators pitcher Ray Scarborough. Williams was in the on-deck circle when Johnny Pesky made the final out, depriving him of one more chance to extend the streak.
In 1949, Boston Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey and Yankees GM Larry MacPhail verbally agreed to trade Joe DiMaggio for Williams, but MacPhail refused to include Yogi Berra.
Joe DiMaggio came back from heel surgery to demolish the Red Sox in a three-game series at Fenway Park. He hit four home runs, three of them game winners. It sent the Sox reeling, and they fell 12.5 games back by July 4. But Boston rallied late in the season and went into Yankee Stadium for the final two games of the schedule with a one-game lead. The Red Sox needed just one win in two games and were to pitch Mel Parnell in the first game. After trailing 4–0, the Yankees came back to beat Parnell 5–4, as Johnny Lindell hit an eighth-inning, game-winning, home run and Joe Page had a great relief appearance for New York. And so it came down to the last game of the season. It was Ellis Kinder facing Vic Raschi.
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