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Virgil Oliver "Fire" Trucks (April 26, 1917 – March 23, 2013) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Athletics and New York Yankees between 1941 and 1958. He batted and threw right-handed.
Those were, however, his only wins for Kansas City. [5] In 36 games, he had a 2–6 record, a 4.65 ERA, 57 strikeouts, 34 walks, and 70 hits allowed in 71 + 2 ⁄ 3 innings pitched. Adding in his totals from his seven games with New York, he had a 2–8 record, a 4.73 ERA, 73 strikeouts, 43 walks, and 90 hits allowed in 97 innings pitched.
He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees and St. Louis Browns between 1916 and 1928. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Shocker, known as one of the last legal spitball pitchers, led the American League (AL)—and set the Browns' record—in 1921 with 27 wins, and won 20 games in four consecutive seasons from 1920 to 1923. [ 2 ]
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The New York Yankees won Game 1 of the ALCS over the Cleveland Guardians, 5-2. ... Oct 14, 2024; Bronx, New York, USA; New York Yankees pitcher Clay Holmes (35) pitches during the seventh inning ...
The New York Yankees began using a Datsun 1200 painted with pinstripes in 1972. Rats chewed through the Datsun's cables, [ 5 ] and the team switched to a Toyota Celica in 1982. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] The White Sox introduced a bullpen car built off of a Chrysler LeBaron in 1981, [ 4 ] but it was also unpopular with pitchers, who refused to ride in it, and ...
A nephew of former Mets and Yankees starter Al Leiter, with obvious New York ties, the right-handed Leiter Jr. comes with a signature splitter and a 34.9 percent strikeout rate - the highest of ...
Kenneth Earl Clay (born April 6, 1954) is an American former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He played for the New York Yankees (1977-1979), Texas Rangers (1980), and Seattle Mariners (1981), winning back-to-back World Series titles with the Yankees in 1977 and 1978. He was born in Lynchburg, Virginia.