Evening star., 1943-04-29
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With 15Run|ess
Innings in Row
Keen in Tight Spots
As He Shuts Out As:
Other HurIers Hot

If the Nationals haven't come up
with one of the seasons outstanding
rookie pitchers, Ewald Pyle will be
acceptable as a substitute, for the
slim southpaW now has pitched two
games, permitted one run and gen.
orally conducted himself in spec
tacular style.
Pyle currently has a string of IS
scoreless innings. In the first in
ming he hurled this season the
Yankees nicked him for a run and
he dropped 10 decision despite
pitching a four-hit game Against
the Athletics yesterday at Griffith
Stadium he unleashed a six-hitter
and won, 80.
Pyle is proving particularly effec-
tive under pressure. Four times in
those two games the opposition
placed men on third base with one
or none out, but Pyle escaped dam
age. Three times against the AS
he pulled himself out of that pre-
dicament.
In the first inning Eddie Mayo
singled to left with one out and
romped to third on wild pitch, but
Pyle famed Felix Mackiewicz and
Third Baseman Ellis Clary grabbed
Jim Tyack's soft liner.
Pyle Strong in Pinches.
Jo-Jo White launched the third
inning with a double and shifted to
third on Mayo's sacrifice, but Mack
iewicz fouled out and ShortStop
Johnny Sullivan snatched Tyack' S
liner. Pete Suder opened the seventh
inning with double, but advanced
no farther as Clark whipped out
Irwin Hall and Bob Swift and Russ
Christopher famed.
White greeted Pyle with lusty
triple to right in starting the eighth,
but Pyle personally disposed of the
next three batters. He scooped up
their easy taps back to him and
threw them out.
Pyle hasn't been the only credita-
BILE throWer among the Mats, how
ever, for Washington's outflelders
are stamping themselves as accurate
tossers. Twice in two days Bob john
son has nipped runners, one at third
base and the other at the plate, and
Stan Spence whipped out another
at the plate two days ago.
Manager Ossie Bluege was to trust
another rookie with a starting as
signment against the Athletics to-
day. planning to employ either
Mickey Haefner or Milo Candini.
When the Yankees invade tomorrow
for the opener of a four game series
they'll get the best pitchers Bluege
can muster.
Yanks to Face Keen Hurting.
The Yankees will be facing quar-
tet of pitchers who have compiled
total of At consecutive scoreless in
! nings Dutch Leonard and Alex
Carrasquel, who will meet the
Yankees in single games tomorrow
and Saturday, have strings of eight
and eleven scoreless innings to their
credit, while Early Wynn and Pyle,
New York's mound foes for Sundays
double-header have 13 and IS score
less innings to carry into those en-
gagements.
In five straight games Washing
tons pitchers have permitted only
five runs and two of those weren't
earned. Over that span of 81 in
nings the opposition has been re-
stricted to % hits.
Meanwhile the Mats haven't been
hitting. Their three runs yesterday
were luck -anointed. In the third in
ming, Clary walked, streaked to third
on wild pitch and scored on Gene
Moore's infield out. The Mats two
runs in the fourth were the result
of three Philadelphia errors and a
meek infield tap by Sullivan that
Pitcher Christopher scooped up and
threw wild past first base.
Washington obtained only five
hits off Christopher, in fact, and to
tune the Mats batting Bluege has
advised his pitchers and utility men
to report early for batting practice,
then clear the cage for the exclusive
use of regulars.
Gerald Priddy was to return to
the Mats lineup today. He was in
New York yesterday at the request
of his draft board to take a pre-
liminary physical examination and
George Myatt supplanted him at
second base.
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