Word: no-hit
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...Milwaukee, Big Jim Wilson, the Braves' veteran (32) righthander who was almost counted out of baseball after being hit on the head by a line drive nine years ago, shut out Philadelphia, 2-0, in the first no-hit big-league ball game of the year...
...object of this acclaim takes his successes as calmly as his failures. Early in the season Turley pitched dramatic no-hit ball for eight and one-third innings against Cleveland, then lost the game 2-1 on a single and a home run by Larry Doby. Ordinarily, a pitcher would make crestfallen excuses. Not Turley. "I've always been amused," said he. "to read the statements pitchers make when something bad happens to them. 'The pitch got away from me.' they say. This one got away from me-350 feet away. I threw Doby the precise pitch...
...down. Old Pitching Pro Harry ("The Cat") Brecheen went out to the mound to talk Bobo out of his nervousness. Bobo threw a strike, then another ball, and he had two Athletics on the bases. The next batter hit into a double play-one out to go to a no-hit game...
Fifth Game. In the fifth, Snider hit his second homer, scoring two teammates. The Yankees fired back with five runs; three of them rode in on Mize's third home run in three days. Manager Charley Dressen let Pitcher Carl Erskine stay in, and he pitched no-hit ball the rest of the way. In the eleventh, Hero Snider sliced a double that won for the Dodgers...
...Detroit Tiger Pitcher Virgil Trucks (5-15), his second no-hit, no-run game of the season, over the league-leading New York Yankees, 1-0, after only three Yankees reached first base, two on errors, one on a walk; in New York...