On June 14 1969 – Reggie Jack-son drove in 10 runs with his 21st and 22nd homers, a double and two bases-loaded singles Saturday as the Oakland Athletics trampled the sloppy-fielding Boston Red Sox 21-7. The 25-hit attack, aided by six errors that led to six unearned runs, put the As in first place in the American Leagues West division by one percentage point over Minnesota, which lost to Cleveland 12-0. Jackson doubled home a run in the first inning, crashed two-run homers in the third and fifth to take the major league lead, singled in two in the seventh and capped his outburst with a three-run bloop single in the eighth. The 10 RBIs were just one shy of the league record set by Tony Lazzeri of the New York Yankees in 1936. Phil Roof also clubbed a three-run homer for the As In the bombardment against Ray Jarvis, 3-2, and four relievers. Reggie Smith hit a three-run homer for Boston and Carl Yastrzemski slugged a pair of solo clouts, his 16th and 17th, against winner Jim Odom, 8-3, who needed relief in the sixth inning.
Four succeeding Singles scoring two more runs was an manager Hank Bauer needed to replace the Moon with Paul Lindblad, who got out of the sixth all right, but was touched for a three-run homer in the seventh by Smith. , It was the humidity, said Odom, now 8-3. It felt like I pitched 12 Innings out there. But nothing the Red Sox could do could match the As, three five-run Innings the fifth and the seventh and the eighth against a grand total of five Boston pitchers. It feels good to beat the Red Sox, said Odom. It , feels better to see the team score so many runs and get so many hits. I still dont know how to get Yaz out, Odom continued. He hits everything I throw up there I am going to have to work on it. Til probably walk him until I find a way to get him out Bauer removed Odom with a six-run lead because he recalled a day he came to Fenway Park with the New York Yankees. The Red Sox took a 9-0 lead after five innings, but the Yankees ended up win- 15-10. There ain’t enough of them (runs) here, said Bauer. In this park, anything can happen
