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l have been asked several times
about that play during Thursday
nights game with Allentown last
week, when Fisher stepped off the
rubber and Iobbed the ball to the
catcher, only to have the Allentown
batter reach out and clout it for a
single. As you will remember, man
ager Bunny Griffiths Immediately
rushed in and protested the play,
but umpire Dzigan ruled that it was
a legal hit Well here is what hap
pened:
The Allentown batter was protest
to Dzigan on a called strike and
Dzigan, getting fed up, signalled to
Fisher to throw the ball, intending,
of course, to call whatever Fisher
threw, a strike, while the batter was
still out of the box But Fisher mis-
understood the signal thinking that
the umpire was calling for the
ball, and stepped off the rubber and
just lobed it in. The Allentown bat
ter, as soon as he saw Fisher start to
throw Che had heard the umpire
call for the pitch while he was out
of the box was smart enough to
step quickly into the box and smack
the apple for single to center.
According to the rule book, such
throw goes down as an illegal pitch
and the batter is at liberty to hit
it if he can. The play is very clearly
covered in the rule book, as mana
ger Grifiths admitted after the
game
While the Owls won Tuesday
nights game with Harrisburg, 1OI
to 7, in a free hitting game in which
Hagerstown got II hits and the
Senators got Il, you will go a long
time before you see a better ball
game than the one between these
two teams on Monday night, when
Lefty Stratton tangled with
George Reigel, also a left handler,
in real pitching duel.
Although Stratton gave up 10 hits,
he kept them well scattered and his
control was well nigh perfect. He
only gave up one walk (and one
hit batsman) and struck out five
men during the eight innings he
pitched When he left the game for
pinch hitter in the bottom half of
the eighth, he had only allowed one
run.
While all this was going on, Reigel
was pitching superb ball too for Har-
risburg, setting the Owls down with
four hits-Rurak's double in the
third, Matazarro's single in the sixth,
and consecutive doubles by Hal Ne
rino (who went in to hit for STRAIT
ton in the eighth and Wally Bernat,
who drove in Chuck Balogh (run-
ming for Nerino) with the Owls only
run. Reigers control was not as
good as STATIONS however, since
he walked five men.
In the ninth inning MacMahon
took over the pitching chores for
the Owls, with the score tied IL.
Lynch, the first man to face him,
cracked a single straight through
the box, which I thought MacMahon !
should have at least attempted to
field, but he let it go by. Letrick,
the Senator's third baseman, who
had been playing whale of game
at the hot corner, Immediately sac
rifced Lynch to second and then
Upton, the catcher, smacked clean
double to right, driving in Lynch
with what proved to be the winning
run. 1t was swell game to win
and tough one to lose.
Another feature of the game was
the superb fielding of both teams,
that had the fans cheering all night. |
All we need now, is for the Owls !
to take the two-game series from
Trenton-and thew can do il. So let's |