Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Second Game belonged to burly righthanded pitcher Bob Turley. Bullet Bob had come on in the late innings just the night before to hold off the Sox. Now he relieved Larsen in the sixth. His fast ball hopped over the corners, kept Chicago batters off balance and kept the Yankees teetering on top of a 5-to-4 lead...
...Pitcher Angel studied the La Mesa lineup, saw mostly right-handed hitters and decided to pitch righthanded. The big crowd (10,000) which had seen him play excellent ball in the field saw him in a perfect performance on the pitcher's mound. He allowed no hits, struck out eleven, walked not a single boy. And his team breezed to the title...
Most important of all, the Braves themselves were agreed they could run all the way, and what made the big difference was the presence of a freckle-fisted pro named Albert Schoendienst. When they got Red from the Giants last June (in a trade for Pitcher Ray Crone, Second Baseman Danny O'Connell and Outfielder Bobby Thomson), the Braves got the leader they had been lacking for so long -a man who could tell them how to play and make them listen. Switchhitter Schoendienst had been around the league for so long (eleven years with the Cardinals before...
...game away in the very first inning with a three-run homer to left. Second Baseman Red Schoendienst rapped another to right in the fifth. Rightfielder Bob Hazle, a remarkable rookie from Wichita, got three hits and boosted his four-week batting average back to an amazing .500. Meanwhile, Pitcher Lew Burdette, the covert spitballer still waiting for his first victory over Brooklyn this year (though he is 13-7 for the season), was so sharp he never had to open his mouth. Throwing them dry, Burdette beat up the Dodgers...
Veteran Braves like Hank Aaron (now leading the league with 37 home runs and 102 runs batted in) and Pitcher Warren Spahn have found their old winning form. And Manager Haney has found himself in possession of the one essential ingredient of managerial genius: a pennant-winning club. At week's end the fast-finishing schedule left the Braves a comfortable 7½ games ahead of their only competitors, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Brooklyn Dodgers...