That '73 season started out gangbusters

but after Dick Allen broke his leg on a play at the plate in June, things went straight downhill. They were 12 games over .500 on May 31, and finished the season 77-85.

After that 13-3 start, Wood was 11-17 the rest of the way, including 1-7 in that disastrous June. He still finished fifth in the Cy Young voting. He started both games of the double header on July 20 of that year, against the Yankees at Yankee stadium.

As an aside, in looking up those numbers, beginning on July 17 and ending on July 26 that year, the Sox played 9 games. Nothing unusual about that, except that 8 of the games were in double headers. None of the double headers were on consecutive days, and two of them were separated by the All-star break. Scheduling was certainly different in those days.