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  • Bobby Veach, August 9, 1925. Source: http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1925/august_9_1925_85083.html
  • Actually there several including Duffy Lewis (July11, 1914), Forrest (Hick) Cady (April 24, 1915), Delos (Sheriff) Gainor (June 29, 1915), Olaf Henriksen (July 7, 1916) and Bobby Veach (August 9, 1925. Here's the story: Duffy Lewis has the distinction of serving as the first of several substitute batters for Babe Ruth. This was in 1914, the day the Babe made his major league debut. The date was July 11, a Saturday, and the Babe, just. purchased by the Red Sox from Baltimore as an outstanding pitching prospect, started against Cleveland at Boston. Through six innings the Babe held the Indians to five scattered hits,all singles, while his mates gave him a 3-1 lead. But in the seventh, three singles and a sacrifice netted two runs for Cleveland and tied the score. It was in the home half of the seventh, then, that Lewis, who with Harry Hooper and Tris Speaker formed one of the greatest outfields of all time, batted for the Babe and singled in second baseman Steve Yerkes with the run that won the game, 4-3. Dutch Leonard finished on the mound for the Red Sox, striking out four of the six Indians who faced him and preserving the victory for Ruth, who thus made his:'first big league appearance a winning one, if not a complete one. "I was out with a bad ankle at the time," Duffy recalled recently. "The Babe could hit the long ball, but he struck out a lot of the time. Our manager, Bill Carrigan, asked me if I could hit. I told him I thought I could and, as it turned out, I did." At least three other players batted for Ruth during the era in which he was primarily a great left- handed pitcher prior to his becoming the greatest homer-hitter the game has ever known. They were , Forrest (Hick) Cady, April 24, 1915, against the Philadelphia Athletics; Delos (Sheriff) Gainor, June 29, 1915, against the Yankees, and Olaf Henriksen, July 7, 1916, against Cleveland. Cady and Gainor failed to get a hit, but Henriksen drew a pass. In every instance that a pinch-hitter was used for pitcher Ruth, the Babe had hurled good ball. Once the pinch-hitter won the game for him, and another time the pinch-hitter saved him a defeat. Ruth, sent in to replace Dutch Leonard in the fourth inning, had pitched three and one-third hitless innings when Cady batted for him in the seventh inning of the 1915 game against the A's, but the game already had been lost, 6-3, when Ruth went to the mound. It was in the 10th inning of the June 29, 1915, game that Gainor batted for Ruth. The Babe had pitched eight-hit ball but could only get a 2-2 tie against Ray Caldwell in regulation time. The Yanks went ahead, 3-2, against Ruth in the 10th. Henriksen, batting for the catcher, then opened the home half with a walk. Gainor, sent in to hit for Ruth, tried to sacrifice and popped a little fly to Caldwell. But the Red Sox did get another man on, and Tris Speaker's fifth consecutive single off Caldwell capped a two-run rally that gave Ruth the win. When Henriksen batted for Ruth, the walk he drew figured in the run that tied the score at 1-1, after Ruth had allowed only four hits in seven innings. The Red Sox scored again in the eighth, and the 2-1 victory went to reliever Carl Mays. After Ruth became a full-time outfielder, a pinch- hitter was used for him only once. That was on August 9, 1925, when Ruth was with the Yankees. The pinch-hitter was Bobby Veach. This was in the 8th inning of a 12-inning game with the White Sox at Yankee Stadium, which the Chicagoans won, 4-3. One account of the game noted: "Babe Ruth was replaced in the eighth inning by Bob Veach, who was announced as pinch- hitter for the home-run king. Ruth had not been feeling well and was willing to retire." The Chicago Tribune didn't phrase it so gently. "The fans were treated to the unusual spectacle of His Royal Highness being yanked for a pinch-hitter," bluntly reported their correspondent. Veach singled when he batted for the Babe and then went to center field with Earle Combs moving over from center to fill the Babe's role of right fielder. Just seven days before Veach batted for Ruth, a pinch-hitter was used for Lou Gehrig. Imagine! Pinch-hitters for both Ruth and Gehrig within a week!
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