Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed to be a hitter's week. In the three-game Yankee-Red Sox series, only Boston's Pitcher Joe Dobson managed to last nine innings. Such Yankee pitching reliables as Allie Reynolds, Vic Raschi and Ed Lopat took heavy poundings from Boston bats. The Yankees gave the same treatment to Boston's Mel Parnell (who won 25 games last year) and to Ellis Kinder (who won 23). The main difference seemed to be that the Yankees had ace Relief Pitcher Joe Page, 32 who gets $35,000 a year for saving games for them...
...National League the champion Brooklyn Dodgers confidently started 1949's rookie-of-the-year, Right-Hander Don Newcombe, against the rejuvenated Philadelphia Phillies. Newcombe, who heard himself described all winter as a pitcher who could win 30 games this year, was able to finish just one inning. The Phillies dumped the Dodgers...
...Crimson got seven hits and four walks, the same number as the winners. However, the Big Red played errorless ball and made two double plays. The winning pitcher, Winnick, struck out nine batters...
Gold Coast pitcher Roger Davis allowed only three hits in taking credit for the close...
...Then douse that pitcher with a bucket of ice water occasionally and pretty soon he won't know whether or not he has his hands on," Bolles explained. "That's what happens to the boys out on the river...