Tony LaRussa NL Recaps for August 22, 1950

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Tony LaRussa NL Recaps for August 22, 1950

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CHICAGO 4 MILWAUKEE 3

11 INNINGS
Chicago is 2-4 in extra innings.
Milwaukee is 3-3.

The Chicago WhipperWills have been forced to bring up fresh arms for their bullpen after the starters have repeatedly failed to go deeper into ballgames and two consecutive extra inning games.Chicago called up 25 year old right hander Babe Lake, up twice before but did not pitch, and 33 year old journeyman Otto Schaller, an eleven year minor league veteran with a service break for the war.

To make room on the roster Chicago farmed out starting pitcher Randy McBride and outfielder Dooley Presco, the only players on the roster with options.

Its tough with all the double headers and short stints by the starters, but we have been winning games and like it, so we'll finagle something to try to win as many as we can.'' said manager Louie Johnson. ''The best cure would be for a starter to actually go deep into a game and for the offense to score some runs when they do.'' he added.

Chicago's starting pitcher in the game Mark Heath did give them seven innings. Heath allowed just two runs on five hits. Both runs came off the bat of Milwaukee slugger Vicente Maples who hit his 11th homerun in the 4th inning and his 12th in the 6th to give him 35 runs batted in to lead the league, one more than Glenn Carr of Milwaukee and Chipper Jones of Atlanta. The twelve homeruns put him in a tie with Carl Zauchin for second trailing Carr by one.

Chicago scored its first run of the game in the bottom of the 6th inning. Brent Handrahan singled,advanced to second on John honeycutt's ground out and scored on a two out douboe by Tom McAllsaiter.

Chicago tied the game 2-2 in the bottom of the 7th thanks to a two base errpor on left fielder Jesus Oldham. Oldham dropped a flyball off the bat of lead off batter Emmitt Brown. Two outs later Brent Handrahan singled in the run. John Honeycutt singled to left field but Oldham threw out Hndrahan with a good throw to third baseman Carr who had his own error problems in the game.

The top of the 8th saw Otto Schaller make his long awaited major league debut after traveling the world fighting for his country and pitching in almost ever minor league in that country. Schaller was undrstandably nervous in his first inning and he walked the first batter, Don Hutchinson on four pitches. Mike Tabor forced Hutchinson at second for the first out and Schaller picked up his frst major league strikeout getting Stan Jimenez swinging at a good moving breaking pitch of some sort. Maples played the villain and spoiled the veteran's debut by getting his third extra base hit, this one only a double off the left field wall, to put Milwaukee back in front 3-2.

Glenn Carr had made a throwing error earlier and he repeated the feat by tossing another ball over the head of first baseman Francisco Latham for the third error of the game for Milwaukee. The ill timed miscue put Randy Gilbert on second base an brought Harry Weilman into the game to replace Hutchinson (7.2IP 8H 3R/1ER 0BB/7SO).

Elmer Anderson, on a batting tear recetly, tied the game 3-3 with a groundball single to center feld when Gilbert deftly slid around the attempted tag of Milwaukee catcher Tommy Wolfe.

The besieged bullpen plugged the leak once again as Gale Rogers gave Chicago a scoreless inning in the 10th amd Don Jones shut down Mlwaukee in the next two.

Jones got the win when Emmitt Brown (4th) hit walk off solo homerun in the bottom of the 11th off Dennis Tomberlin to win it for the WhipperWills!
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