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A pinch runner is not credited with a game played for the purpose of consecutive-game playing streaks, per the Official Rules used by Major League Baseball (MLB). [3] For example, in May 1984, Alfredo Griffin of the Toronto Blue Jays scored the winning run in a game, yet his consecutive game streak ended as he appeared only as a pinch runner.
In the series, Caballero made three appearances: [8] two as a pinch-runner—for Seminick in Game 2, [37] and for Goliat in Game 3 [38] —and one as a pinch-hitter for Konstanty in Game 4, where he struck out. [39] For the season, Caballero appeared in 46 games and posted a .167 batting average. [16]
Washington is one of only seven players to have more game appearances than plate appearances, [8] presumably excluding starting pitchers who played primarily for the American League, and relief pitchers. Washington's 1975 Topps baseball card is the only baseball card ever released that uses the "pinch runner" position label. [9]
[28] [29] (Some sources state the first "true" five-on-five intercollegiate match was a game in 1897 between Yale and Penn, because the Iowa team, that played Chicago in 1896, was composed of University of Iowa students, but did not officially represent the University of Iowa – rather being organized through a YMCA.) [28] By 1900 the game of ...
The next season, he batted .306 in 107 games for Double-A Houston Buffaloes, dividing his playing time between the Buffaloes and Triple-A Columbus Red Birds in 1954. That year he hit a combined .255 average in 123 games before joining the big team in late September. [2] [3] Phillips appeared in nine games with the Cardinals as a pinch runner ...
Hinson appeared in three major league games for the Boston Red Sox in 1928, each time as a pinch runner. [3] He scored one run, and did not get a plate appearance or play defensively. [3] Hinson's first and most successful pinch running appearance came on April 19 against the New York Yankees, in the first game of a home doubleheader at Fenway ...
In his later years, Alexander was used mostly as a pinch runner by manager Chuck Tanner, and so earned the sobriquet "Matt the Scat".Tanner had managed in Oakland in 1976 and brought Alexander with him after he became the manager of the Pirates.
Basketball is a ball game and team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules. Since being developed by James Naismith as a non-contact game that almost anyone can play, basketball has undergone many different rule variations ...