Louis Post-Dispatch’s Bill Mauldin and others, but Post Publisher Philip Graham decided that Herblock needed a fulltime pinch hitter. Herblock agreed. “He went madly for the idea,” said Graham.
This was a bid, not so much to snap the no-hitter, but for victory. Tebbetts’ first pinch-hitter was a tall lefty, Bill Davis, and he lined to Jim Gosger in center. That ended the eighth.
Trevino went 0-for-2 with a strikeout before Wells struck out as a pinch-hitter in the seventh inning and finished 0-for-2. “Just felt like Austin — really hard to take him out from behind the ...
This time there were no late-inning heroics. Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Alex Vesia induced New York Yankees pinch hitter Jose Trevino to fly out to center field to preserve a 4-2 win Saturday ...
driving in a run in the nightcap • Doubled as part of a two-hit game as the starting left fielder at Indiana State • Drew a bases-loaded walk as a pinch hitter in the series-opening win vs. Rutgers • ...