1977 Boston Red Sox season

MLB yearly infobox
name = Boston Red Sox
season = 1977
misc =

current league = American League
y1 = 1901
division = Eastern Division
y2 = 1969
Uniform
ballpark = Fenway Park
y4 = 1912
city = Boston, Massachusetts
y5 = 1901
owners = Jean Yawkey
managers = Don Zimmer
television = WSBK-TV, Ch. 38
(Dick Stockton, Ken Harrelson)
radio = WMEX-AM 1510
(Ned Martin, Jim Woods)|

The by|1977 Boston Red Sox season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Red Sox finishing 2nd in the American League East with a record of 97 wins and 64 losses.

Regular season

On June 18, in a 10-4 loss to the Boston Red Sox in a nationally-televised game at Fenway Park in Boston, Jim Rice, a powerful hitter but a slow runner, hit a ball into right field that Jackson seemed to get to without much speed, and Rice reached second base. Furious, Martin removed Jackson from the game without even waiting for the end of the inning, sending Paul Blair out to replace him. When Jackson arrived at the dugout, Martin yelled that Jackson had shown him up. They argued, and Jackson said that Martin's heavy drinking had impaired his judgment. Despite Jackson being eighteen years younger, about four inches taller and maybe forty pounds heavier, Martin lunged at him, and had to be restrained by coaches Yogi Berra and Elston Howard. Red Sox fans could see this in the dugout and began cheering wildly, and the NBC TV cameras showed the confrontation to the entire country.

eason standings

Opening Day Line Up

Other batters

Relief pitchers

Farm system [Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., "The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball," 2nd edition. Durham, N.C.: Baseball America, 2007]

* Class AAA: Pawtucket Red Sox (International League; Joe Morgan, manager)
* Class AA: Bristol Red Sox (Eastern League; John Kennedy, manager)
* Class A: Winston-Salem Red Sox (Carolina League; Tony Torchia, manager)
* Class A: Winter Haven Red Sox (Florida State League; Rac Slider, manager)
* Class SS-A: Elmira Red Sox (New York-Penn League; Dick Berardino, manager)

References

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/1977.shtml 1977 Boston Red Sox team page at Baseball Reference]
* [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1977&t=BOS 1977 Boston Red Sox season at baseball-almanac.com]