Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Cubs 365, August 28

On this day in 1957, the Cubs played at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn for the very last time. (The Dodgers would move to Los Angeles for the 1958 season.)

On the mound for the Dodgers that day; Sandy Koufax.

Koufax wasn't yet the dominant pitcher he would become, and he didn't really have it for his last start in Brooklyn against the Cubs. He gave up a home run to Dale Long in the fourth, and was out of the game by the sixth inning.

Ed Roebuck came in to relieve him, and ended up pitching the next nine innings. That's right, nine innings in relief. Roebuck gave up only three hits, struck out six, and kept the Dodgers in the game until they could eke a run across in the bottom of the 14th inning.

That run was scored by former Cub Handsome Ransom Jackson.