1931

The game at Griffith Stadium was pretty much a lost cause, after Walter Johnson’s Washington Senators had scored eight times in three innings off starter Danny MacFayden and two others. Walter Murphy was the fourth pitcher in the game, and he threw a scoreless bottom of the eighth, facing four batters in all and being touched for just one hit. Walter’s major-league record shows him having thrown two innings. He faced ten batters and gave up four hits and walked one, and he bore a 9.00 earned-run average ...

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