On July 10th, 1932, at League Park in Cleveland, the Indians rapped out 33 hits on their way to scoring 17 runs. They lost. In 18 innings.
It was the Athletics 18 Indians 17. The A's had a mere 25 hits.
Jimmie Foxx of Philadelphia had 6 hits and 8 RBI's.
How about the day for Cleveland shortstop Johnny Burnett? He had 9 hits in 11 at-bats. Before the game his batting average was .299. After this game his aveage ballooned to .323!
Dick Porter, whom I wrote about in a previous post, was 3-10 in the game.
Eddie Rommel was the winning pitcher. He came on in relief of Lew Krausse who went just one inning. Rommel pitched the next 17 innings, gave up 29 hits, walked 9, allowed 14 runs (only 13 earned runs) and got the win!
After the game, A's manager Connie Mack said, "Holy shit, what a game. I managed my ass off!"
Actually he didn't say that but it would have been a pretty good quote if he did.
Check out the boxscore of this wild game at: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CLE/CLE193207100.shtml
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