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Born February 3, 1951 in Santa Monica, California, Dwight Evans, he debuted in 1972. The same year Mike Schmidt and Rich Gossage debuted. He had already become a regular in the Boston outfield when he was joined by sensational rookies Jim Rice and Fred Lynn in 1975. Number 24, affectionately known to the Boston faithful as Dewey, made his reputation as a strong-armed outfielder who froze baserunners in their tracks, and later blossomed into one of the AL's better hitters.
After winning International League MVP honors at Louisville in 1972 (.300, 17 HR, 95 RBI), Evans joined the Red Sox for good in 1973 but hit only .223. His offensive contributions were unexciting for several seasons, but he excelled defensively. He mastered Fenway Park's tricky right-field corner and employed the strongest outfield throwing arm in the AL. His lunging catch in the 11th inning of Game Six of the 1975 World Series robbed Joe Morgan of a possible Series-winning extra-base hit, started an inning-ending double play, and set the stage for Carlton Fisk's famous HR in the 12th. In 1976, he won the first of his eight Gold Gloves, trailing only Willie Mays, Roberto Clemente, Al Kaline and Ken Griffey Jr. among outfielders.
Tutored by batting coach Walt Hriniak, Evans altered his batting style in mid-career, which resulted in a tremendous power increase in his 30s. After batting .265 with 150 homers and 514 RBI in his 20s, Evans clubbed 235 home runs, drove in 870, and batted .277 in his 30s and over the last 10 years of his career. In the second-half of his career, Evans became a very patient hitter as well.
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In the strike-shortened 1981 season. He hit .296, shared the AL HR title with 22, and led the league in what would become his specialty, bases on balls. Evans walked 85 times in 1981 (he had never drawn more than 69 walks before), drew 112 in 1982, and led the AL twice more in '85 and '87 with 114 and 106. Along with his improved patience at the plate, Evans unveiled a new batting stance - a deeper crouch with his weight shifted drastically onto his back foot. The improvements were swift and dramatic. He hit .292 with 32 HR, 98 RBI, and 122 runs scored in 1982, and had a virtually identical season in 1984 (.295, 32 HR, 104 RBI, 121 runs scored). His average slumped in 1985-86, but he still slugged 55 HR and drew 211 walks over the two seasons. On April 7, 1986, in Tiger Stadium, he hit the first pitch of the season from Jack Morris for a homer, the first time that had occurred in baseball history. Later that season, June 28, 1984, against Seattle in Fenway, Evans hit for the cycle in dramatic fashion. Needing a home run to complete the cycle, Evans blasted a three-run shot in the bottom of the 11th inning to defeat the Mariners, 9-6. Evans had his finest post-season performance in the 1986 World Series, when he drove in nine runs. He hit a home run in Boston's Game Two victory, and a homer in Game Seven, which gave the Red Sox the lead. Unfortunately, the Sox lost that game to the Mets.
In 1987, at the age of 35 and in his 16th major league season, Evans recorded career highs in batting average (.305), HR (34), and RBI (123); he hit his 300th career home run on June 1, 1987. He was shifted to first base that July, but never adjusted to the infield, and in mid-1988 he returned to right field, where his play declined appreciably. He tallied his 2000th hit on May 27, 1988. In mid-1989 he became Boston's regular DH. Still, Evans retained his reputation as an outstanding clutch hitter, and his careful pitch selection made him particularly dangerous batting with a 3-0 count.
Only Carl Yastrzemski played more games for the Boston Red Sox, but after 19 years in Beantown, Evans spent his final season with the Orioles, batting .270 with six home runs in 101 games. When he retired, he ranked among Boston's all-time leaders in games played, runs, hits, home runs (379), walks, and RBI.
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Scouting Report
"Can hit to right field, has excellent power to right-center, and can pull high, hanging curves… has trouble with the Ron Guidry-type pitcher who can get the fastball over the outside corner and the slider low and in… one of the best bunters in the league… Gets an excellent jump on any ball hit toward him in right, and is not intimidated by any park… arm is considered the model arm when talking about comparisons. It is powerful and accurate." — from the 1984 Scouting Report.
Best Season, 1981
Despite the strike-shortened season, Evans had his best all-around year. He paced the AL in homers (22), total bases (215) and walks (85), one of three times he led the loop in walks. He was also still at his best with the glove, gunning down nine runners from right field, giving him 49 assists in a four-year span. This is all the more amazing, considering that runners were rarely running on him.
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Todays Trivia . . .
Which one-time Baltimore Orioles pitcher was the first American Leaguer to have a hit in the World Series after having none during the regular season that year?
Hint: #1 He threw two no-hitters against National League teams.
Hint: #2 In his first no-hitter, he did not strike out a single batter.
Hint: #3 In his second no-hitter, he scored the game’s only run.
Hint: #4 Teams he was on faced the team that came to be known as “The Big Red Machine” twice with partial success.
Hint: #5 He had the most wins of any Jewish pitcher in baseball history.
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Game of the Day — October 21, 1973 World Series Game 7 New York Mets at Oakland Athletics
Birthday boy Ken Holtzman on the bump for the A’s!
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November 3 highlights and Historic Days!
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November 3, 1918, future Hall of Famer Bob Feller is born in Van Meter, Iowa. Feller makes his major league debut as a 17-year-old pitcher in 1936, and will win 266 games over an 18-year career, despite missing parts of four seasons while serving in World War II.
November 3, 1928 — Voters in Massachusetts approve Sunday baseball in Boston, provided that Braves Field is more than 1,000 feet from a church. This leaves Pennsylvania as the only state with no Sunday baseball in the major leagues.
November 3, 1953 — After two days of meetings, the rules committee ends the practice that allows players to leave their gloves on the playing field, requiring outfielders and infielders to carry their gloves with them into the dugout at the completion of each half inning. Prior to the controversial change, left fielders, right fielders, first basemen, and third basemen would leave their gloves in foul territory with center fielders, shortstops and second basemen dropping their gloves at their position, meaning the games would be played around the scattered leather.
November 3, 1968 — Harry Carey, trying to cross the busy Kings Highway near the Chase Park Plaza Hotel in St. Louis suffers two broken legs, a broken nose, and a dislocated shoulder when he is knocked 40 feet in the air after being struck by a car at 1:15 AM on an inclement Sunday morning. The popular Cardinals broadcaster, whose hospital room will become party central before he is discharged, will recover in time to be on the air for Opening Day.
November 3, 1970 — The Philadelphia Phillies trade outfielder Curt Flood to the Washington Senators for first baseman Greg Goossen, OF Gene Martin, and pitcher Jeff Terpko. In 1969, the Phillies had acquired Flood from the St. Louis Cardinals but had been unable to convince him to report to the team. The embattled outfielder had refused to go to Philadelphia, citing he was not a piece of property to be sold, becoming the first player to challenge the reserve clause seriously.
November 3, 1981 — Milwaukee Brewers reliever Rollie Fingers, with a 6-3 record, 28 saves and a 1.04 ERA, wins the 1981 American League Cy Young Award, collecting 22 of 28 possible first-place votes. The other six go to Steve McCatty of the Oakland Athletics.
November 3, 1982 –Pitcher Pete Vuckovich becomes the Milwaukee Brewers’ second consecutive Cy Young Award winner in the American League, edging Jim Palmer of the Baltimore Orioles. Vuckovich (18-6 with 105 strikeouts and a 3.34 ERA) posted a .750 winning percentage, the highest in the majors over the past two seasons.
November 3, 1989, Lou Piniella is named to replace Pete Rose as manager of the Cincinnati Reds. Rose was banned from baseball for his gambling activities while managing the team. In his first season in Cincinnati, Piniella will guide the Reds to the World Series title.
November 3, 1997 – Boston Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra becomes the sixth player to be the unanimous choice for Rookie of the Year. Garciaparra, at age 24, led the American League in hits (209), triples (11), and multi-hit games (68), while also setting the AL rookie-record with a thirty-game hitting streak.
November 3, 2011 — A week after throwing the ceremonial first pitch before Game 7 of the 2011 World Series, St. Louis Cardinals great Bob Forsch dies suddenly at 61. Early reports are that Forsch, 61, suffered an aneurysm in his upper chest, according to Stltoday.com. He is the third winningest pitcher in Cards history, with 163 wins, pitched two no-hitters for the team and played in three World Series, including the 1982 World Champions.
Milestones November 3
🎙️ Did you know? Ken Holtzman was born on this day . . .
Ken Holtzman was compared to Sandy Koufax early in his career. Both were left-handed, both were Jewish, and both had devastating curveballs. But that comparison was unfair to Holtzman, who went on to have an excellent career, winning 174 games in 15 seasons. The St. Louis-native was involved in three big trades, one sending him from the Cubs to Oakland, one sending him from the A's to Baltimore, and the other shipping him from the Orioles to the Yankees. With the A's he joined Vida Blue and Catfish Hunter in a formidable starting rotation that led Oakland to three straight World Series titles. A crafty left-hander who preferred to induce a groundball rather than a strikeout, Holtzman won 17 or more games six times, and pitched two no-hitters. A clutch performer, Holtzman was 4-1 with a 2.54 ERA in eight World Series starts.
Best Season, 1973
We chose '73 not because he won 21 games or pitched nearly 300 innings during the regular season, but because he did that and also won two games in the World Series, including Game Seven. Holtzman allowed just two walks every nine innings, and he completed 16 of his 40 starts. He was a workhorse for the A's won their second straight title.
Post-Season Notes
In 13 post-season starts, Holtzman was 6-4 with a nifty 2.30 ERA in more than 70 innings pitched. He started games one, four and seven of the 1973 World Series against the New York Mets. He left Game Seven with a 5-1 lead in the 6th inning and got the win after relief help from Rollie Fingers and Darold Knowles.
Holtzman was not used in either the 1976 Playoffs or World Series by Yankee manager Billy Martin. In a surprise move, Martin named Doyle Alexander to start Game One of the World Series in Cincinnati, rather than Holtzman or Doc Ellis. After Game Three of the Series, with the Yanks down three games to none, a testy Martin snapped at a reporter when he asked the manager "how do you spell Holtzman?" Holtzman did his best, at least in the papers, to diffuse the controversy, saying, "I'm not disappointed. They're paying me an awful lot of money, and if he wants to put me in the bullpen, I'll do it... I respect Billy's baseball knowledge."
But Martin's cryptic explanations made the situation more suspicious. When asked why Holtzman had been passed over in the five-game playoff against the Royals and through the first three games against the Reds, Billy said, "I'll answer that after the Series." Seemingly, Martin had lost confidence in the left-hander. The next season, Holtzman began in the rotation, but was quickly relegated to part-time duty. Soon, he was not pitching at all. During one three-week stretch from mid-July to early-August, he pitched twice in relief. Finally, the normally quiet Holtzman reacted. "The Yankees are trying to win with 24 players. Certainly I want to play. How frustrating is it to come to the ballpark every day and not play? I was obviously not told the truth when I signed here. They asked me to sign a long-term deal because they said they wanted me to pitch here for a long time. It's getting hard to explain to my friends in the league why I'm not pitching."
What had happened? The truth is that Yankee owner George Steinbrenner had grown disenchanted with Holtzman almost as soon as he acquired him. After Holtzman realized he wasn't going to be used on a regular basis, he demanded a trade. Since he had ten years in the big leagues, he could choose the teams he could be traded to. Steinbrenner wanted Holtzman to wave that right, and when the lefty refused, George bristled. As he rotted on the bench, Holtzman asked to be traded to Milwaukee or Chiago, where he could be closer to his home in Lincolnshire, Illinois. For the next year, Steinbrenner ordered Martin to use Holtzman as an insurance policy, and not to use him in the regular rotation. When general manager Gabe Paul asked Holtzman to report early to spring training in 1978, Holtzman declined, citing family problems. Holtzman's wife had been having trouble with her pregnancy, and Holtzman wanted to stay close to home. Paul's reaction was less than sympathetic, and the pitcher fired back. "When he (Paul) said subordinate my family to baseball, the credibility gap widened... Just because he may not have a satisfactory family life, doesn't mean I don't." Holtzman claimed that Steinbrenner had told him that if he didn't wave his no-trade clause and let the Yankees deal him to the team of their choice, that George "would be waving to him for a long time in the bullpen."
Early in June of 1978, the Yankees placed Holtzman on the disabled list, despite Holtzman's assertion that he was healthy. The pitcher notified union president Marvin Miller, who called the Yankees' decision "outrageous." Finally, amid this turmoil, on June 10, Holtzman was dealt to the Chicago Cubs, ending his frustrating stay in the Bronx. Holtzman became the fifth player union representative that the Yankees traded. Unfortunately, the left-hander was finished as an everyday starter, and he won just seven more games in the big leagues. His days of wasting away in the Yankee bullpen had hastened the end of his career.
Feats: Holtzman hurled a 3-0 no-hitter against the Atlanta Braves on August 19, 1969. A few years later he pitched a second no-hitter, defeating the Cincinnati Reds 1-0, on June 3, 1971. Holtzman scored the only run of that game.
Holtzman vs. Koufax
On September 25, 1966, Holtzman and Sandy Koufax dueled in Chicago's Wrigley Field. It was a battle of the pre-eminent left-handed pitcher against the rising left-handed pitcher in the league. Both pitchers also happened to be Jewish. Holtzman, in what he later described as his "greatest thrill in the game," defeated Koufax and the Dodgers, 2-1, as he no-hit LA for eight innings.
Holtzman for Monday
On November 29, 1971, three trades rocked baseball. The Reds got Joe Morgan from the Astros, the Indians traded Sam McDowell to the Giants in a deal that netted them Gaylord Perry, and the Oakland A's acquired Holtzman from the Cubs for outfielder Rick Monday. The Reds got the better end of their deal, the Giants lost their deal, but the last one is harder to quantify.
Holtzman paid immediate dividends, averaging 19 wins his first four season in Oakland, and in three of those seasons he earned a World Series ring. Of course, those were his only four seasons in Oakland, as he was part of Charlie Finley's fire sale in the mid 1970s. On April 2, 1976, faced with the prospect of losing his stars to free agency, Finely traded Holtzman and Reggie Jackson to Baltimore for Don Baylor, Mike Torrez and Paul Mitchell (the ballplayer, not the hair solon). Baylor and Torrez were too talented to stay in the Bay Area, the former leaving via free agancy after the '76 campaign, the latter in a trade to the Yanks that netted the A's nothing much. And so, the A's got four very good seasons from Holtzman and single seasons from transients Baylor and Torrez.
Now for the Monday side of the deal. Monday played in Chicago for five seasons (1972-1976), and obviously never won anything except the gratitude of all Americans when he stopped some morons from burning a flag in the Dodger Stadium outfield. He was never an All-Star in Wrigleyville, but he had some decent seasons (highs of .294-32-77). The cubs dealt Monday to the Dodgers in January of 1977, for Bill Buckner and Ivan DeJesus. Billy Buck had seven very, very good years in Chicago, winning a batting title. DeJesus was Ozzie Smith-light at shortstop, even leading the NL in runs scored in 1978. The deal turned out great for Chicago.
So, we have Holtzman's four excellent seasons in Oakland weighed against Monday's tenure in Chicago and the other players he brought to the Cubs in trade (Buckner and DeJesus). Holtzman also netted the A's one non-descript season from both Baylor and Torrez. Despite the fact that Holtzman helped anchor a staff that garnered the A's three titles, I'd have to give the deal to the Cubs. Holtzman would have been an ace for Chicago for a few years and then slid into mediocrity (23-26 win/loss mark after leaving the A's, finished by age 33) anyway. Instead, they got Monday for a few years and more importantly, Buckner's bat and DeJesus's glove for even longer. Oh, by the way, the Cubs traded DeJesus early in 1982 for Larry Bowa and a guy named Ryne Sandberg. Advantage Cubs.
Lights Out on a Career
In the second game of a doubleheader at Wrigley Field on August 5, 1979, between the Cubs and Cardinals, play was delayed for nearly 20 minutes due to darkness - at 3:30 p.m. A blanket of dark clouds camped above the field but not one drop of rain fell. When the game resumed, Holtzman got the loss. It was the final decision of his big league career.
Birthdays:
Notable: Bob Feller
Passings:
Notable: Bob Forsch
New From Around the League!
ANSWER TO TODAY’S TRIVIA
TRIVIA ANSWER: KEN HOLTZMAN
In 1973, Holtzman was 0 for 1 with a BB as a pinch-hitter on 24-Sep. In the WS vs. NYM, he hit two 2B, 1 in G #1 & another 2B in G #7, both off Jon Matlack, both victories for OAK. He pitched for BAL in 1976.
- #1 Holtzman no-hit CIN on 19-Aug-1969 & no-hit ATL on 03-Jun-1971.
- #2 & 3 See #1 above
- #4 Holtzman’s Oakland A’s beat the Cincinnati Reds in the 1972 WS. Holtzman started the Series & got the W in G1. He was on the 1976 NYY team who ended OAK’s string of AL pennants at 3, but were blanked by the CIN team that had gained almost legendary status.
- #5 Had 174 pitching W’s (9 more than Sandy Koufax)
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