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The last lifetime statistic accumulated by Babe Ruth was his 569th career assist, made on a throw from left field. According to the box score on May 30, 1935, at Philadelpnia, Ruth batted only once, and grounded out, in the top of the first, but was credited with an assist in left field, which must have come after that final AB. Does anyone have any more information about this odd ending to his career?
Also, Ruth put down 113 Sac Bunts during his career, 94 of them with the Yankees.
The last lifetime statistic accumulated by Babe Ruth was his 569th career assist, made on a throw from left field. According to the box score on May 30, 1935, at Philadelpnia, Ruth batted only once, and grounded out, in the top of the first, but was credited with an assist in left field, which must have come after that final AB. Does anyone have any more information about this odd ending to his career?
On May 25, at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Ruth went 4-for-4, drove in 6 runs and hit 3 home runs in an 11–7 loss to the Pirates. These were the last three home runs of his career. His last home run cleared the roof at the old Forbes Field—he became the first player to accomplish that feat. Five days later, in Philadelphia, Ruth played in his last Major League game. He struck out in the first inning and, while playing the field in the same inning, hurt his knee and left the game.
Two days after that, Ruth summoned reporters to the locker room after a game against the Giants and announced he was retiring. He had wanted to retire as early as May 12, but Fuchs persuaded him to stay on because the Braves hadn't played in every National League park yet. That season, he hit just .181 with six home runs in 72 at-bats. The Braves season went as badly as Ruth's short season. They finished 38–115, the fourth-worst record in Major League history, just a few percentage points fewer than the infamous 1962 New York Mets
Here is an account of the game:
Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society's Official Website and Online Shoppe (http://www.philadelphiaathletics.org/history/baberuth.htm - broken link)
Quote:
At the plate, Ruth grounded out softly to Phillies first baseman Dolph Camilli as the Braves went down without scoring any runs in the inning. Ruth took his customary place in the outfield for the bottom half of the inning. Phillies’ second baseman Lou Chiozza hit a soft fly to leftfield. Ruth came in trying to make the catch, but the ball dropped in front of him and rolled past to the wall. A run scored, but Chiozza, trying for an inside-the-park home run, was thrown out at the plate when Braves shortstop Bill Urbanski retrieved the ball and got it back to Braves catcher Al Spohrer in time for the tag out.
Hmmm...Urbanski's "retrieval" of the ball must have been a throw from Ruth, what would the shortstop have been doing running down a ball which got past the leftfielder? That throw must have been the assist.
So, that assist is actually Ruth's final act as a ballplayer, which is better than it having been misplaying a ball into a triple.
Hmmm...Urbanski's "retrieval" of the ball must have been a throw from Ruth, what would the shortstop have been doing running down a ball which got past the leftfielder? That throw must have been the assist.
So, that assist is actually Ruth's final act as a ballplayer, which is better than it having been misplaying a ball into a triple.
That would qualify as an assist. As long as Ruth was not charged with an error, if he retrieves a hit in the outfield, hits (or misses) the cutoff man, who then throws out a runner, they both get an assist. Every fielder who touches the ball between the previous pitch and the out gets an assist, unless an error intervenes.
Thanks for digging out the account, I couldn't find one.
In the top of the 6th inning facing Chris Iannetta, Carlos Gonzalez, Chris Nelson and Todd Helton, AJ Burnett became the first Yankee pitcher in history to strikeout 4 batters in the same inning.
He also joined Chuck Finley as the only major league pitchers to ever accomplish the feat twice.
Ruth's last home run, hit for the Braves on May 25, 1935, was the first ball ever to clear the roof at Forbes Field. Guy Bush, who was pitching for Pittsburgh, said, "I never saw a ball hit so hard....He was fat and old, but he still had that great swing."
Here is an account of the game:
Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society's Official Website and Online Shoppe (http://www.philadelphiaathletics.org/history/baberuth.htm - broken link)
Hmmm...Urbanski's "retrieval" of the ball must have been a throw from Ruth, what would the shortstop have been doing running down a ball which got past the leftfielder? That throw must have been the assist.
So, that assist is actually Ruth's final act as a ballplayer, which is better than it having been misplaying a ball into a triple.
There is more about this in the Wikipedia article about Chiozza. Lou Chiozza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It says it was a blooper near the foul line, retrieved by the shortsthop, and that Chiozza was clearly safe at the plate, but was called out out of deference to Ruth.
Chiozza, earlier the same year, also had the distinctin of being the first batter to ever come to the plate in a night game.
The second of Vander Meer's two consececutive no-hitters occurred in the first night game in Brooklyn.
Vandermeer's record will never broken, I can say with confidence. A pitcher would have to pitch three no hitters in a row, to break it. I'm a little bit surprised it has not been equalled. Several pitchers have come close, including Vandermeer's teammate Ewell Blackwell, who took a second nohitter into the ninth.
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