Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were in second place. Still, there was something special about the doubleheader that dragged through a damp afternoon and evening at Yankee Stadium last week. For those two games told the story of American League baseball in the summer of 1958: when Yankee hitters were hot, their pitchers held off the opposition and they breezed home (10-2). When Yankee hitters were helpless, their pitchers held off the opposition and they squeezed home (2-1). Whatever the bats banged out, Yankee Manager Casey Stengel could produce a pitcher to pull out the ball game...
...start of hearings on a series of taxpayers' suits to stop the Dodgers from building their new ballpark. But if the results of the referendum stand up in court, unofficial scorers will surely write into the record book that it was a portly old relief pitcher named Walter O'Malley who came on in the final innings to win the game...
...tension was clearly too much for the home team. Starting Pitcher Sandy Koufax walked four men in one inning and was sent to the showers. Reliever Don Bessent let a man steal home. The Dodgers were losing to Cincinnati 6-0 when the public address system sputtered: "Attention, ladies and gentlemen. The vote on Proposition B, returns from the first 58 precincts, shows: yes, 3,844 votes; no, 3,557 votes." The crowd hooted. "Can I change my vote to no?" roared a first-base fan. "I wanna send these bums back to Brooklyn...
...Crimson pitcher Gerry Emmet had a rather easy time with the Blue opposition for the first eight innings, allowing only six hits and three runs, all unearned. But he seemed shaky with men on base throughout the game, and in the ninth, when there were always men on base, this weakness caught up with...
...ball until the sixth, when he was relieved by Brigham. Byron Johnson came in an inning later after Brigham had given up four runs to tie the score. Then, in the Crimson seventh, Mo Balboni reached second on an error by left fielder Tom Gorman and scored when the pitcher threw the ball into center field on a pick-off attempt...