finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1959 right bridgetown , virginia 1957 september 29 3-2 5.10 32 pitcher los angeles dodgers record earned run average strikeouts april 18 1 february 1930 chuck churn
 pittsburgh pirates chuck churn right
chuck churn

clarence nottingham churn -lrb- born february 1 , 1930 in bridgetown , virginia , usa -rrb- was a pitcher in major league baseball .
he pitched in 25 games for the pittsburgh pirates , cleveland indians and los angeles dodgers from 1957 to 1959 .
churn was signed as an amateur free agent by the pittsburgh pirates before the start of the 1949 season .
his first callup to the major leagues was in the 1957 season .
his major league debut was on april 18 , 1957 against the brooklyn dodgers , when he gave up two hits and two runs in one inning of work .
that season , churn pitched in five games for the pirates , and ending the seasons with no decisions and a 4.32 earned run average , having given up four runs in 8 1/3 innings of work .
he was selected by the boston red sox from the pirates in the 1957 rule 5 draft held on december 2 .
he was selected off waivers on march 26 , 1958 by the cleveland indians from the red sox .
he pitched in six games for the indians in the 1958 season , ending with no decisions and a 6.23 era in 8 2/3 innings of work .
in may 1958 , he was purchased by the cincinnati reds from the indians .
the los angeles dodgers acquired churn in a trade with the reds on may 6 , 1959 in exchange for dick hanlon .
churn 's first career win in the major leagues came in a game on september 2 , 1959 , when the dodgers beat the st. louis cardinals 9-6 , with churn pitching the final 4 2/3 innings to get the win .
churn got his second win on september 11 in the first game of a doubleheader against the pittsburgh pirates .
churn came into the game in the eighth inning in relief of sandy koufax with the dodgers down 4-2 .
the dodgers scored another run in the eighth and then scored two runs off of elroy face in the bottom of the ninth .
churn pitched 1 2/3 scoreless innings to get the win .
the loss was charged to face , the only loss in a season in which he finished with an 18-1 record .
the last regular season game of his career was on september 29 against the milwaukee braves .
churn finished the 1959 season with a 3-2 record and one save to along with a 4.99 era in 14 appearances .
he pitched for the dodgers in the first game of the 1959 world series , giving up two runs in a game the dodgers lost to the chicago white sox 11-0 .
the dodgers went on to win the series in six games .
