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...down they went. By the eighth inning, no Senator had even got to first base on a walk. Then, after retiring 21 batters in a row-with a no-hit, no-run game almost in the palm of his glove-Grove faltered. One hit was chalked up against him, then another. Regaining control in time's nick, Ole Mose blasted his way out, wound up with a two-hit shutout (1-to-0)-as spectacular a game as any of the 287 he has won in 15 brilliant years of big-league baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Spring Posers | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...Yankee team was a sure-enough nonpareil. Although big Paul Derringer had pitched a magnificent game, the Yankees, with a magician at every position, had nosed out the Reds, 2-to-1. From then on, it was a rout. They won the Series in four straight games (including a two-hit shutout by ailing Monte Pearson). They won the Series for the fourth year in a row-a feat that not even nonpareils had ever accomplished before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Four Straight | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...wallowing in a huge batting slum; two of the pitches complained of sore arms and a third pulled a muscle in his side. "There is hope," thought the baseball world. But after the first two games that same world has thought better of itself and ceased to think. The two pitching stars of the Cincy Club, boasting a combined record of fifty-two victories, have merely added two defeats to their list. The Reds thus far possess a team batting average of .088 and they are sleeping off a two-hit whitewashing inflicted upon them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TANKS OF THE YANKS | 10/7/1939 | See Source »

Behind the spectacular two-hit pitching of Les Pitchford, the 1942 edition of Harvard baseball blusted its way to an over whelming 18 to 1 victory over Thayer Academy yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Batsmen Beat Thaye, Academy With 18 to 1 Runaway Win | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

...Pennant again this year) would welcome their No. 1 slugger, was demonstrated during the first week of the new season. In a four-game series with the Boston Red Sox (a pre-season 20-to-1 shot), the famed, hard-hitting Yankees had ignominiously lost three games, including a two-hit shutout. Mighty Lou Gehrig had failed to get even one piddling hit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Junior Rejoins | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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