Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven innings that he pitched, was in form comparable to his 14-inning whitewashing of the Boston Coast Guard. Throttling the visitors with only four hits, he struck out eight, two with runners on first and third in the sixth. Knowles, pitching his first Varsity game, upheld the mound duties by fanning two men in his only inning...
...hottest pitcher in baseball. Off relief at last, he has made four starts this season, gone all the way each time, allowed one lone earned run in the 36 innings and breezed to four straight wins. His combination fast ball and curve have taken the play from his dazzling mound-mates Dizzy Trout and Hal Newhouser, who almost won last year's pennant for Detroit. Last week, Connie Mack said that Detroit was the American League team to beat-mainly because of the added oomph which Al has given the Tigers' pitching staff...
...Coast Guard, it was a bitter loss. Two pitchers had shared the visitors' mound duty and pitched as well as Wallace but failed to nail down the last man. Added to the astonishing facts of the victory was the decision to call the game at the end of the fourteenth...
After suffering its first loss Saturday, the nine will open its home season tomorrow against the same team. With Wallace again on the mound Stahl, favored by home grounds and a prospect of better weather, stands his best possible chance of beating the naval airmen...
With only center fielder Art Conlon and pitcher Jack Wallace back from last year, Stahl will depend heavily on his star hurler not only for duty on the mound but also in the fifth batting slot...