Pollet, covering home, applied the tag as O’Brien slid into home plate. Johnny O’Brien belatedly dashed for home and became the inning’s second out. Johnny O’Brien chose to stop at third base, but the hustling Groat went from first to third. Eddie O’Brien (Johnny’s twin brother) singled to right field. With one out and runners on first (Groat) and second ( Johnny O’Brien), the Pirates were victimized by a play that was emblematic of their sorrowful season.
The Bucs mounted another rally in the second inning, but came away without scoring. It was a two-run shot off Donoso that also scored Gene Baker, who had reached on a fielder’s choice. The Cubs got those runs back when Banks hit his first homer of the day. Freese subsequently scored on a sacrifice fly off the bat of catcher Jack Shepard. After singles by Eddie O’Brien and Gene Freese to start the game, rookie Roberto Clemente singled home O’Brien. The visiting Pirates took the early lead with a pair of runs off Pollet. Donoso was the first person of color to pitch for the Pirates, having made his first appearance of the season on June 18. The starting pitchers were veteran Howie Pollet (3-3) for the Cubs and 32-year-old rookie Lino Donoso (2-6) for the Pirates.
#ERNIE BANKS 33 RPM RECORD SERIES#
The Cubs claimed their third win in the five-game series against their second-division rivals in a game that saw each team get 15 hits. The eighth-place Pirates (40-70) and fifth-place Cubs (52-58) were aided by the outward breeze, hitting eight home runs between them in a game that saw three lead changes and went down to the final play – Banks fielding a Dick Groat grounder and initiating a double play.
#ERNIE BANKS 33 RPM RECORD FULL#
1Įrnie Banks, in his second full season with the Chicago Cubs, hit three home runs into the daylight at Wrigley Field, the final one being a two-run eighth-inning blast that settled the issue, on August 4, 1955, as the Cubs defeated the Pirates 11-10 in front of an announced crowd of 3,486. Les Biederman of the Pittsburgh Press, discussing Ernie Banks who during the final four games of a five-game series between the Cubs and Pirates went 11-for-19 with five home runs and 13 RBIs. “He’s been hotter than the weather, and in the Midwest, that’ s torrid.
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