Damn Yankees by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Damn Yankees

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In July, an injury to Spud Chandler and the trade of Mel Queen left the Yankees in need of a pitcher for a July 13 doubleheader. Yankee manager Bucky Harris phoned Turner on the 10th, and after Raschi made a start in San Diego that evening, Turner asked him if he could be ready to pitch again three days later. Raschi agreed, then found out his next start would be for the Yankees. Pitching the second game of the doubleheader, he gave up three runs in 6 and 1⁄3 innings as the Yankees defeated the Chicago White Sox by a score of 6–4. On July 18, he allowed six hits in a complete game, 7–2 victory over the Cleveland Indians, the last of a 19 game winning streak for New York. Facing the Indians again in the second game of an August 7 doubleheader, he threw a three hit shutout. He won his first six decisions of 1947 before suffering his first loss in a game that biographer

Lawrence Baldassaro called "one of his best outings of the year." For 10 innings, he held the Boston Red Sox, the previous year's American League pennant winners, scoreless, but the Yankees also failed to score, and Raschi took the loss when he allowed three runs in the 11th. On September 14, he defeated the St. Louis Browns; the win meaning that the Yankees would at least tie for the AL pennant. In 15 games, 14 starts, he had a 7–2 record, a 3.87 ERA, 51 strikeouts, 38 walks, and 89 hits

allowed in 104 innings for the pennant winning Yankees. He pitched twice in relief in the 1947 World Series against the