Don Drysdale appears to end when he hits Dick Dietz with a bases-loaded pitch in the ninth inning
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Don Drysdale appears to end when he hits Dick Dietz with a bases-loaded pitch in the ninth inning

On May 31, 1968, the shutout streak of Don Drysdale appears to end when he hits Dick Dietz with a bases-loaded pitch in the ninth inning. But umpire Harry Wendelstedt rules that Dietz made no effort to avoid the pitch, thus prolonging the at-bat. Drysdale then retires Dietz on a fly ball and and the…