Friday Night Lights

Boston’s historic Fenway Park hosts its first night game 78 years ago today with the Red Sox beating the Chicago White Sox 5-3 before a capacity crowd of 34,510.

Historians note that Dave Philley, the White Sox’s No. 2 hitter, collects the first nighttime hit at Fenway with a one-out single in the first inning off Boston starter Boo Ferriss.

Philley finishes the Friday night game with four of Chicago’s 13 hits.

Not that the Red Sox care about those 13 hits as they cobble together five runs on just eight hits with all five runs coming in the fifth inning off White Sox starter Frank Papish.

The first two runs in that fifth-inning rally come on a two-out, two-run single by future Hall of Famer Ted Williams.