Dean Chance Career Highlight Position: PitcherBats: Right • Throws: Right6-3, 200lb (190cm, 90kg)Born: June 1, 1941 in Wooster, OH usDied: October 11, 2015 in Wooster, OHBuried: Wooster Cemetery, Wooster, OHHigh School: Northwestern HS (Wayne, OH)Debut: September 11, 1961 (11,899th in major league history)vs. MIN 7.1 IP, 10 H, 2 SO, 1 BB, 3 ER, LLast Game: August 9, 1971 (Age 30-069d)vs. BOS 0.0 IP, 2 H, 0 SO, 0 BB, 2 ERRookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits…
Los Angeles Angels pitcher Bartolo Colón, who led the American League with 21 wins, receives the Cy Young Award. Colón is the second pitcher in Angels history to win the award. Dean Chance was the winner in 1964, back when there was one award for the two leagues. Colón receives 17 of 28 first-place votes cast and finishes with 118 points. Closer Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees finishes second with 8 first-place votes and 68 points, while Johan Santana of the Minnesota Twins, who was the 2004 winner, is third with 3 first-place votes and 51 points.
The Mets purchase Dean Chance from the Indians, but the 1964 Cy Young award winner will only compile a 0-1 record along with an ERA of 13.50 in his three games, all in relief, before being sent to Detroit, along with Bill Denehy, in an off-season trade with the Tigers. In exchange, New York obtains right-hander Jerry Robertson, who will never pitch again in a major league game.
1970 – Clyde Wright joins Dean Chance (1964) as the Angels’ second twenty-game winner as he beats the Twins, 5 – 1. Bert Blyleven, 19-year-old rookie, ties an American League record by striking out the first six batters. He strikes out 10 in 6 2/3 innings.
In the first six innings, Indians starter Sam McDowell walks six Nats batters, five intentionally. Three of the intentional passes go to Frank Howard in his first three at bats, twice when he leads off the inning. McDowell moves to 1B in the 6th inning, with two on and no outs, and Dean Chance comes in, allowing both runners to score. McDowell comes back to the mound to finish, losing 4 – 1 to Dick Bosman.
On July 3, 1970 In Boston, a Carl Yastrzemski homer in the opener and an unearned run in the nitecap provide the Red Sox with 2 – 1 and 5 – 4 wins over Cleveland. In the second game, Indians reliever Dean Chance is told to remove a tiny flag pin on his cap by umpire Ed Runge in compliance with a rule prohibiting…
At Fenway Park, Carl Yastrzemski belts a Dean Chance pitch out of the park to the right of the flag pole. Only Jimmie Foxx (twice) and Bill Skowron had previously done it. Ray Culp is the 6 – 2 winner over Cleveland.
Indians players Bob Miller, Ted Uhlaender, Graig Nettles, and Dean Chance in 1970.
Cleveland trades pitchers Luis Tiant and Stan Williams to the Twins for 3B Graig Nettles, OF Ted Uhlaender, and pitchers Dean Chance and Bob Miller. Tiant led the American League in ERA in 1968.
On October 1, 1967, With identical 91-70 records and just one game to play, the Minnesota Twins and Boston Red Sox faced, nearly, a single-game playoff for the pennant. After going down 2-0, when the Twins scored 2 unearned runs, the Red Sox broke through against Twins ace Dean Chance to score 5 in…