David Laurila talks about the greatness of Wilbur Wood in his Sunday notes column. Laurila does touch upon one of Wood’s worst days, when he started both ends of a doubleheader against the Yankees. He did not record an out in game one, then got hammered in 4+ innings in game two. I have a vague memory of being at the annual festival at the Syrian Orthodox church in Bridgeport that day, and getting snippets of the games from radios. I probably saw the first game at home, then was very surprised to see Wood start game two. All in all he faced 27 batter, walked one, hit a batter, struck out two, and allowed 13 hits.
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