Dwight Evans Positions: Rightfielder and First BasemanBats: Right Throws: RightHeight: 6-2 Weight: 180Born: Saturday, November 3, 1951 in Santa Monica, CA USADied: Still LivingDraft: Drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 5th round of the 1969 MLB June Amateur Draft from Chatsworth HS (Chatsworth, CA).High School: Chatsworth HS (Chatsworth, CA)Debut: September 16, 1972 vs….
Boston’s Wade Boggs goes 4 for 5 in a 7 – 4 win over the Yankees to become the first player in major league history to achieve both 200 hits and 100 walks in four consecutive seasons. It is Boggs’s 7th straight 200-hit season overall, extending his own modern major league record. Dwight Evans also puts his name in the record books by belting his 20th homer. He is the only current player with 20 or more homers in each of the last nine years. The Red Sox also announce the team will not exercise its option on Jim Rice next season while Bob Stanley, the club’s all-time save leader with 173, reports he will call it quits.
August 1, 1989 In game 2 of a double header At Fenway Park, Boston Red Sox Nick Esasky takes Dave Johnson of the Baltimore Orioles deep. Esasky’s blast came in the bottom of the 4th, scoring Dwight Evans and Danny Heep. The Red Sox will win the game 6-2. Esasky, 29 at the time had…
On June 11, 1989 Dwight Evans plays in his 2,293rd game wearing a Red Sox uniform, surpassing Ted Williams‘ total to become second on the all-time list for games played with the team. Carl Yastrzemski holds the franchise mark, playing in 3,308 contests before he retired in 1983. Game ticket & learn more about the…
1986 – At Fenway Park, Bruce Hurst’s complete game victory gives the Boston Red Sox a 4 – 2 win and 3-2 lead in the World Series against the New York Mets. Hurst scatters 10 hits with one walk and six strikeouts.
On May 14, 1986, California Angels slugger Reggie Jackson hits his 537th career home run Jackson’s shot, gave the Angels a 2-0 lead against Roger Clemens and the Boston Red Sox in the first inning. The towering blast moved Jackson, who will turn 40 on Sunday, ahead of Mickey Mantle on the career list and…
1985 – Boston’s first two batters – Dwight Evans and Wade Boggs – crack homers off Cleveland’s Neal Heaton in Boston’s 13 – 6 win in game 1. Evans adds another home run to back Oil Can Boyd’s first win in seven weeks. Cleveland wins the nitecap, 9 – 5.
At Fenway Park, 46-year-old Phil Niekro starts for the New York Yankees, becoming the second oldest pitcher ever to start on Opening Day. Only Jack Quinn, for the Brooklyn Robins in 1931, was older at age 47. The Boston Red Sox chase Niekro after four innings and, behind the pitching of Oil Can Boyd, coast to a 9 – 2 win. Niekro walks four in the 3rd inning, including two with the bases loaded, to lose his seventh opener in a row (six with Atlanta), the worst opening day record ever. Outfielders Tony Armas, Dwight Evans and Jim Rice stroke home runs for Boston.
1984 – The American League Gold Glove team is announced, and it is made up of the same nine players as the 1983 team: catcher Lance Parrish, first baseman Eddie Murray, second baseman Lou Whitaker, third baseman Buddy Bell, shortstop Alan Trammell, outfielders Dwight Evans, Dave Winfield and Dwayne Murphy, and pitcher Ron Guidry.
Jim Rice caps a 5 for 6 day with a grand slam in the bottom of the 10th inning to give Boston a 13 – 9 win over Oakland.