January 9, 2022

Wood Pile

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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