MULIPLE INJURIES

[bjs73]

[quote:ba2d9399ee]The notion of Kent Tekulve playing third base creates an interesting mental image for anyone who actually saw him play.

I'm thinking of this tall, gaunt, righthander with glasses and a horizontally striped Pirates cap swooping in on a slow roller like Ichabod Crane, long arms and legs flying in all directions, then bending down from on high, gathering the ball up and slinging it sidearm to the befuddled first-baseman, his knuckles almost scraping the ground as he released the ball.

I'd pay to see that in real life.[/quote:ba2d9399ee]

I had a great conversation with someone on this board this past summer in a private message that had actually been to the SF game where Tekulve was used as a LF option for the Pirates.

The short version of the story is that Chuck Tanner wanted to play match ups in the final inning of the game so he put Tekulve in LF and brought in a different reliever to face someone. (Probably lefty vs. lefty situation.) Tekulve actually caught a flyball in LF that inning and the spectacle of the eyewitness was hilarious.

Just found the boxscore on retrosheet. Woohoo! Hopefully the formatting looks ok. I'll post the pbp at the end of the boxscore for the inning. If the formatting looks like crap go to [url]http://www.retrosheet.org/[/url] and look up the 1979 game Pirates @ Giants on September 1st. Enjoy!

[quote:ba2d9399ee]Game Played on Saturday, September 1, 1979 (D) at Candlestick Park
PIT N 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 - 5 10 1
SF N 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 3 8 0
BATTINGPittsburgh Pirates AB R H RBI BB SO PO A
Moreno cf 5 0 1 0 0 0 2 0
Garner 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 2
Milner lf 4 1 1 0 0 1 3 0
Jackson p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Stargell 1b 4 2 3 2 0 1 10 0
Madlock 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
Easler rf 3 0 2 1 0 0 0 0
Alexander pr 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
B. Robinson rf 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ott c 4 0 1 0 0 1 3 3
Berra ss 3 1 1 2 0 0 2 3
Kison p 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Tekulve p,lf 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals 36 5 10 5 0 3 27 12
FIELDING -
E: Garner (20).
BATTING -
HR: Berra (2,5th inning off Montefusco 0 on, 0 out); Stargell 2 (26,6th inning
off Montefusco 0 on, 0 out,8th inning off Nastu 0 on, 0 out).
SF: Berra (2,off Lavelle).
Team LOB: 5.
BASERUNNING -
SB: Alexander (6,2nd base off Lavelle/Littlejohn).
San Francisco Giants AB R H RBI BB SO PO A
North cf 3 0 1 0 2 0 3 0
Strain 2b 3 1 0 0 0 0 4 1
Clark rf 5 1 2 0 0 1 3 0
Evans 3b 4 0 0 0 1 0 1 4
Ivie 1b 4 1 1 2 0 0 10 0
Whitfield lf 4 0 2 1 0 0 1 0
Metzger ss 4 0 2 0 0 1 2 3
Littlejohn c 2 0 0 0 2 0 3 0
Montefusco p 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Lavelle p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
McCovey ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Nastu p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Johnston ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Halicki p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 8 3 5 3 27 9
BATTING -
2B: Whitfield (20,off Kison); Metzger (7,off Kison).
SH: Strain 2 (8,off Kison 2).
Team LOB: 10.
BASERUNNING -
CS: North (21,2nd base by Kison/Ott).
PITCHINGPittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO HR
Kison W(10-7) 7 6 3 0 4 2 0
Tekulve 1.2 2 0 0 1 1 0
Jackson SV(13) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 9 8 3 0 5 3 0
San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO HR
Montefusco L(3-6) 5.1 8 4 4 0 3 2
Lavelle 0.2 1 0 0 0 0 0
Nastu 2 1 1 1 0 0 1
Halicki 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 9 10 5 5 0 3 3
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[quote:ba2d9399ee]GIANTS 9TH: North grounded out (second to first); Strain
grounded out (shortstop to first); On a bunt Clark singled to
third; JACKSON REPLACED MILNER (PITCHING); TEKULVE CHANGED
POSITIONS (PLAYING LF); Evans made an out to left; 0 R, 1 H, 0
E, 1 LOB. Pirates 5, Giants 3.[/quote:ba2d9399ee]