8/13/1956: Peewee Reese homered in the top of the first inning with no one on and one out but had it rained out.
8/13/1956: Peewee Reese homered in the top of the first inning with no one on and one out but had it rained out.
8/13/1956: Peewee Reese homered in the top of the first inning with no one on and one out but had it rained out.
7/23/1955: The Senators were rained out in Detroit in the second game of a doubleheader. Eddie Yost led off the game with a homer and Frank Lary hit one in the bottom of the third. It would have been Lary’s first career home run. The game was called in the top of the fourth inning.
6/12/1955: In what would have been the second game of a doubleheader in Philadelphia, Wally Post of Cincinnati homered off Ron Negray of the Phillies in the first with one out and two on base. Andy Seminick homered off Rudy Minarcin in the bottom of the second with one out and no one on base. The game was washed out in the bottom of the third inning.
5/25/1955: Pittsburgh’s Gene Freese rounded the bases while the Dodger outfield tried to track down his hit at Forbes Field. It came off Billy Loes in the second with no one on and was rained out.
4/24/1955: In the second game of a scheduled double-header, Dee Fondy and Harry Chiti of the Cubs both hit home runs off Reds pitcher Corky Valentine in the bottom of the second inning. The game was rained out in the bottom of the third inning with Chicago leading 3-0.
4/20/1955: Felipe Montemayor of the Pirates hit a three-run home run (which would have been his first major league homer) off Giants pitcher Ruben Gomez in the bottom of the third inning. The game was rained out in the top of the fourth inning with Pittsburgh leading 3-0.
8/3/1953: Duke Snider lost a homer to the rain in Milwaukee. The blow came as he led off the eighth inning with Lew Burdette pitching for the Braves. The game was called with the Dodgers leading 2-0 during the bottom of the eighth. The records reverted back to the end of the seventh and a 1-0 Dodgers win.
5/12/1953: Carlos Bernier of the Pirates led off the top of the second inning with a homer off Cincinnati’s Eddie Erautt for the first run of the game. With one out in the bottom of the fifth and the Pirates ahead, 5-1, the game was rained out. Bernier hit three homers in his career.
8/2/1952: Hank Sauer hit a homer at Brooklyn in the third inning with two on base. The pitcher was Ben Wade. The game was rained out in the fifth inning. Sauer ended the season tied for the home run lead with Ralph Kiner with 37.
6/21/1952: Steve Souchock of the Tigers lost a two-run homer to the rain. The game against the Athletics was called in the bottom of the fourth.
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