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CUBS WASTE WALLS' C:CLE Afternoon Was Finished WRIGLEY FIELD: THE FRIENDLY CONFINES AT CLARK AND ADDISON trotted out from the Cincy bullpen, as Gross's The Cubs went in order in the loth, and Cincinnati CUBS WASTE WALLS' C:CLE afternoon was finished. An inning later, Long and won, 8-6. The Cubs had failed to capitalize on Walls' Kindall both singled, and Walls' triple to the right- slugging effort. Walls had gone 4-for-5 with two runs JULY 2, 1957 center barrier drove them both in, tying the game, scored and four runs batted in. Banks knocked in CINCINNATI REDLEGS 8, CHICAGO CUBS 6 5-5. In four innings, Walls was already 3-for-3 with two, but the Cincinnati pitching allowed only those all of his extra-base hits accounted for. six runs. (10 INNINGS) A little bit of excitement and a lot of controversy Cincinnati's Post became the first batter to hit arose in the Cubs' half of the seventh. With one out, two grand slams in 1957. While his big blow brought By Mike 47-fuber Walls laced a single. He had just hit for the cycle in in four runs, Bailey had a 2-for-4 game with an four straight at-bats. He moved to third on Moryn's RBI and two runs scored. Sanchez picked up his single. Banks hit a "likely looking double-play"' ball third victory, allowing just one hit in three innings to short but was ruled safe at first base. Redlegs pitched. The Redlegs moved into first place in the manager Birdie Tebbetts and bullpen coach Tom National League with the victory, a half-game over ONLY TWO MONTHS HAD PASSED SINCE Neither starting pitcher was sharp. Chicago's Ferrick thought otherwise, and "this precipitated the Milwaukee Braves.13 Chicago's record dropped outfielder Lee Walls was traded from Pittsburgh to Don Kaiser didn't make it out of the second inning, quite a rhubarb,"9 as both Cincinnati men "were to 23-43, and the Cubs spent the rest of the season Chicago,' and he had not yet become a household and Cincinnati's Don Gross lasted just 21/3 innings. banished from protesting Umpire Frank Dascoli's shifting between seventh and eighth place in the name in the Windy City as July 1957 began. On With two outs, "started his biggest Walls day as a `safe' call.'"° The supposedly late relay allowed Walls senior circuit. July 2 Walls moved up some in Cubs fans' eyes Cub with a wasted double in the first inning:4 Walt to score the tiebreaking run for Chicago. Before Walls, the last Cub to hit for the cycle was as he tried to singlehandedly lead his Chicago Moryn followed with a walk, but Ernie Banks ended Dave Hillman had been pitching for the Roy Smalley, at Wrigley Field on June 28, 1950. Walls' teammates to a victory over the Cincinnati Redlegs the inning with a grounder to short. Cubs since the top of the third. He struck out six cycle was the first in the majors in three seasons. in an afternoon affair at Wrigley Field. Before a The Redlegs jumped on Kaiser in the top of the Cincinnati batters and had been touched for only six (Don Mueller of the New York Giants did it on July crowd of 10,358, the game featured plenty of action second inning, scoring five runs, which were capped coming into the eighth inning. Ed Bailey led off II, 1954.) Just three weeks after Walls' performance, between the second-place Reds and the next-to-last hits by Wally Post's grand slam. Frank Robinson led off and launched his nth home run of the season into the Mickey Mantle accomplished the rare feat for the Cubs, who started the day 1512/ games back in the with a walk. Ed Bailey singled, and Kaiser issued an center-field stands, tying the game once more. Walls New York Yankees (July 23, 1957). standings. As the Chicago Tribune put it, "The Cubs, intentional pass to Roy McMillan in order to pitch had another chance to be the hero, as he led off the who often lose but never quit, fought back to take to Gross. Gross hit a "hard shot near the bag"5 at first bottom of the ninth, but his fly ball to right stayed SOURCES a lead, slipped back into a tie, then lost in the loth that Dale Long could not field cleanly; Long's only in the park. With two outs, Banks also launched a In addition to the sources mentioned in the notes, the author inning, 8 to 6."' Gross at first, and Cincy scored a run. play was to get fly to center, but center fielder Bell tracked it down. consulted baseball-reference.com, mlb.com and retrosheet.org. Walls might have been the one player on the Cubs Johnny Temple walked to load the bases again, and The overtime inning featured extra-base hits by roster least likely to hit for the cycle. He came into Post deposited a Kaiser offering into the left-field Cincinnati batters, as "the Reds hauled out their NOTES the game batting .228, with five doubles, four triples, seats. This was Post's rah homer and second bases- artillery."fl Jim Brosnan, the fourth Cubs hurler, Walls was traded by Pittsburgh with Dale and one home run in the 53 games he had played in a loaded shot of the season. It meant a 5-0 lead for the On May t, 1957, had pitched the ninth, and Cubs manager Bob Long to Chicago for Dee Fondy and Gene Baker. Cubs uniform. In eight games with the Pirates before Redlegs, and it brought Dick Littlefield in to relieve Scheffing kept him in for the loth. George Crowe 2 Edward Prell, "Cincinnati Wins, 8-6, in to After 5 Run Edge the trade, Walls had only four hits (three singles and Kaiser. Littlefield retired Gus Bell, then was lifted opened the inning with a double, his third hit of Over Cubs," Chicago Tribune, July 3, 1957: 34. a double). He was slugging a meager .323. In his first for a pinch-hitter in the bottom of the second. the game. Robinson struck out and Bailey walked, 3 Walls finished the 1957 season at .240, but the team's batting 236 major-league games, Walls had gotten more Cubs By the bottom of the fourth, however, the giving the infield a force at any base. However, Don average was only .244. He had a breakout season in 1958, than two hits just six times and more than three notched batting .304, when the team batting average was .265. had fought back and tied the game. They Hoak "smacked a first-pitch double to left'"2 to drive only once. It is reasonable to believe that no one had each Prell. three runs in the third when Walls and Banks home Pete Whisenant, who was running for Crowe. 4 expectations for such a batter to amass four hits, let run sent balls over the ivy wall. Walls' second home Brosnan then walked Alex Grammas, and the bases 5 Ibid. alone a single, double, triple, and home run, in a Kindall. A "knocked of the season drove in Jerry fan were loaded. Turk Lown relieved. Raul Sanchez hit a Ibid. game.3 Yet on this summer afternoon, Walls became it back into left field, but [first base] Umpire Frank slow roller to second and Bobby Morgan threw home 7 "Reds Take Cubs in loth; Regain Lead," Pittsburgh Post- the fourth player in Chicago Cubs history to hit for round- Dascoli ruled it a homer."' Banks hit his 15th for the walked Temple, Gazette, July 3, 1957: 14. the cycle. force out. But Lown then tripper of the season, a "home run that carried 425 providing the Redlegs with the second run of 8 Lou Smith, "Reds Take League Lead; Defeat Cubs in loth, feet into the center-field bleachers.."" Hersh Freeman 8-6," Cincinnati Enquirer, July 3, 1957: 33. the inning. 164 16s .
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