John Briggs Stats & Facts
John Briggs Positions: Bats: L Throws: L Height: 73 Weight: 190 Born: Friday, March 10, 1944 in Paterson, NJ USA Died: in , Debut: 4/17/1964 Last Game: 9/28/1975 Full Name: John Edward Briggs
John Briggs Positions: Bats: L Throws: L Height: 73 Weight: 190 Born: Friday, March 10, 1944 in Paterson, NJ USA Died: in , Debut: 4/17/1964 Last Game: 9/28/1975 Full Name: John Edward Briggs
John Briggs Positions: Bats: R Throws: R Height: 70 Weight: 175 Born: Wednesday, January 24, 1934 in Natoma, CA USA Died: in , Debut: 4/17/1956 Last Game: 9/4/1960 Full Name: Jonathan Tift Briggs
One big hit, one big drop, two wild pitches and one bad hop are what it takes for Pittsburgh to prevail, 3 – 2, in 14 innings over Philadelphia. The big hit is Roberto Clemente’s 3rd-inning triple, a 440-plus-footer off Forbes Field’s left-centerfield light tower, which drives in Freddie Patek with the tying run. In the 8th, John Briggs drops a fly ball hit by Al Oliver, which allows Matty Alou to score the tying run. Alou will also score the game-winner six innings later, courtesy of two consecutive wild pitches by Dick Selma, the latter featuring the aforementioned bad hop, off the cement beneath the backstop screen, which allows Alou to score the walk-off tally from second.
1961 – The Cincinnati Reds send Joe Nuxhall to the Kansas City Athletics for pitchers John Tsitouris and John Briggs. Nuxhall first pitched for the Reds in 1944, when he was 15 years old.
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