https://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=198608100DET
For those that want to know what I meant about Tim Lollar, I remember this game (37 year-old details filled in by the box score) from 1986. It was a Sunday afternoon and I was supposed to mow my grandfather's lawn but decided to watch the game and then mow. Clemens started against the Tigers in Detroit. Sox were cruising with a four run lead when Detroit cut the lead to two runs in the fifth with an Alan Trammell two-run home run. Clemens made it through six and handed the game over to Tim Lollar in the seventh still up two runs. Lollar promptly allowed the first three Tigers on followed by a grand slam by Darrell Evans. Detroit up by two as Lollar got the next three out to finish the inning. I'm guessing the thinking was that Lollar couldn't screw up the game any more than he did so McNamara didn't make a call to the pen. At that point, I decide to mow my grandfather's lawn and listen to the game on an old yellow transistor radio that I used to have.
So... I'm mowing. Sox turn around in the the top of the eighth and score five, highlighted by a Rich Gedman grand slam. Big yard, long inning so I'm still mowing when the Sox bring in young Calvin Schiraldi (as Vin Scully called him during the '86 World Series) to get the final out.
Still mowing.
Post-game show is on and I'm listening to the highlights (from I think Coleman and Castiglione). Post-game flips to the studio and they start talking about how Tim Lollar thought he had vultured a win only for the scorekeeper to invoke the rarely used ineffective pitcher clause (in bold below) that no one had referenced until that day. In other words, Tim Lollar...
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On the other hand, I finished mowing and my dad was grilling steaks.
Good Sunday afternoon.
https://www.mlb.com/glossary/standard-stats/win
Postscript... Lollar was out of baseball after 1986. However, he did go 2 - 0 and finished with a batting average of 1.000 when he was used as a pinch hitter and got a single.