Brooklyn’s Don Newcombe makes his first major league start a dandy, shutting out the Reds, 3 – 0, in Cincinnati. It’s the first shutout in a National League debut in eleven years and extends Brooklyn’s win streak at Cincinnati to 19 games going back to June 1947. Newk gives up hits to the first two batters, then allows just three more hits while walking none. He drives in two runs as well. Ken Raffensberger then matches Newk by firing a one-hitter in the nitecap to beat Brooklyn, 2 – 0, tossing only 83 pitches. The only hit is a leadoff single by Gil Hodges in the 8th. Raffensberger pitched two one-hitters against the Dodgers in 1948.

On May 22, 1949 — Brooklyn’s Don Newcombe makes his first major league start a dandy, shutting out the Reds, 3 – 0, in Cincinnati. It’s the first shutout in a National League debut in eleven years and extends Brooklyn’s win streak at Cincinnati to 19 games going back to June 1947. Newk gives up hits to the first two batters, then allows just three more hits while walking none. He drives in two runs as well. Ken Raffensberger then matches Newk by firing a one-hitter in the nitecap to beat Brooklyn, 2 – 0, tossing only 83 pitches. The only hit is a leadoff single by Gil Hodges in the 8th. Raffensberger pitched two one-hitters against the Dodgers in 1948.

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