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[7] Face returned to the Pirates for the 1955 season, and was both a starter and reliever, appearing in 42 games, with a 5-7 record and 3.58 ERA. [7] [8] In 1956, he set a modern Pirates record for games pitched (68), leading the league [8] and breaking the club mark of 59 set by Bill Werle in 1951. [9] Of those 68 games, only 3 were starts. [7]
Capps made the team out of spring training. He began the season in a middle relief role but ended the season as Pittsburgh's primary set up man behind closers Mike González and Salomón Torres. He pitched in 80.2 innings across 85 games, posting a 9-1 record and a 3.79 ERA with 56 strikeouts. He led all Major League rookie pitchers in appearances.
Robinson finished the season with a 2–1 record and a 3.04 ERA in eighteen relief appearances for the Pirates. [1] In the seventh inning of the September 7 game against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field , he struck out all three batters on nine total pitches to become the 13th National League pitcher to throw an immaculate inning , the 21st ...
He saved three games in the 1979 World Series, including the winner, as the Pirates defeated the Baltimore Orioles 4 games to 3. [6] He was selected as an All-Star in 1980. [7] He was traded from the Pirates to the Phillies for Al Holland and minor-league left-handed pitcher Frankie Griffin on April 20, 1985. [8]
Cleveland Indians (now Cleveland Guardians) relief pitchers Aaron Fultz and Rafael Betancourt warming up in the bullpen at Jacobs Field in 2007. In baseball and softball, a relief pitcher or reliever is a pitcher who pitches in the game after the starting pitcher or another relief pitcher has been removed from the game due to fatigue, injury, ineffectiveness, ejection, high pitch count, or for ...
The 28-year-old right-hander was 2-5 with a 5.86 ERA in nine starts and seven relief appearances this year for the Pirates, striking out 48 and walking 21 in 50 2/3 innings. He made his big league ...
On December 21, 1959, in the midst of the off-season, Cheney was traded by the St. Louis Cardinals with his teammate, outfielder Gino Cimoli, to the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for relief pitcher Ron Kline. The Pirates hoped to make Cheney the starting pitcher with control and accuracy that they could depend on. Cheney progressed as a ...
New York Yankees relief pitcher Anthony Misiewicz was carted off the field after getting hit by a comebacker in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates Friday night.