1903 Official Scoring Card |
Team: New York Highlanders |
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Team: Boston Pilgrims |
at: Hilltop Park |
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About the Author: Harvey Frommer is the author of 33 sports books, including "The New York Yankee Encyclopedia, "Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball," "Growing Up Baseball" with Frederic J. Frommer and "Rickey and Robinson: The Men Who Broke Baseball's Color Line." His "A Yankee Century: A Celebration of the First Hundred Years of Baseball's Greatest Team" will be published in paperback Sept. 2003. It was Sunday at Yankee Stadium. The New York Yankees matched up against the Washington Senators, the two wildest pitching staffs in the major leagues. The New Yorkers had surrendered 5.27 free passes per nine innings; Washington, 4.99. Game one of the doubleheader played that eleventh day of September saw the Senator pitchers out-do themselves in bestowing walks. The Yankees were given 17 free passes, including 11 in the third inning, a record surpassing the previous high of 8. The frenetic fifty-minute, bottom of the third inning saw 18 Yankees bat. Four Yankees were walked twice in the inning - another major league record. (The parenthetical number indicates walks yielded by Senator pitchers). (1) Phil
Rizzuto walked. (2) Cliff Mapes walked. A Bobby Brown double
scored Rizzuto and Mapes. Eddie Yost threw a Joe DiMaggio
ground ball off the Yankee Clipper's shoulder into right
field. Brown scored. Yogi Berra doubled to center. DiMaggio
scored. Washington pitcher Paul Calvert was removed from the
game. (3) Charlie Keller was walked by relief pitcher Dick
Welterroth.
Reynolds scored when (7) Brown walked. DiMaggio made the second out by flying out to Clyde Vollmer in left, scoring Rizzuto. Mapes to third. (8) Berra walked re-loading the bases. (9) Keller also walked, forcing home Mapes. (10) Collins walked scoring Brown. Buzz Dozier replaced Gonzalez. (11) Coleman walked, forcing home Berra. Reynolds popped out to first. It was wild all right - and many more records for wildness (read: bases on balls) could have been broken if not for the presence of Washington's Buzz Dozier, a hurler who plied his trade wearing sun glasses. He pitched the final five innings and walked only four Yankees. Incidentally, the final score was Yanks 20 and Senators 5. This
Article is Copyright © 1995 - 2003 by Harvey
Frommer.
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Web Links: Yankees Fan Network UltimateYankees Fast Facts: In Memory Of Bobby Bonds (1946-2003) Bonds played an All-Star season in right-field for the Yanks in 1975, hitting 32 homers and stealing 30 bases. "I would rather pitch a double-header against any other club than one game against the Yankees." St. Louis pitcher Milt Gaston just try to keep him out of jail." David Cone on teammate David Wells Trivia: What Yankee hit seven more homeruns at Yankee Stadium than Babe Ruth? Have a trivia question? Email it to us and maybe we'll use it in an upcoming issue. |
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