After pitching his team to a 26 – 2 victory over a local men's amateur team ( the Mercantiles ), he was approached by another, the Forest Citys, for whom he played for two years.

After the Tigers had clinched the 1968 American League pennant, McLain added to his penchant for notoriety while pitching in his 31st victory in a game against the New York Yankees on September 19, 1968.

After pitching camp on Blackheath, Cornish rebels were defeated in the Battle of Deptford Bridge ( sometimes called the Battle of Blackheath ), just to the west, on 17 June 1497.

" After the 2005 season, Wells requested a trade back to the West Coast, but he eventually withdrew that request and resigned himself to one last year pitching for the Red Sox.

After pitching one game on April 12, he was once again placed on the 15-day disabled list.

After spending the spring of 1996 continuing to blister Grapefruit League pitching with a. 344 average, Puckett woke up on March 28 without vision in his right eye.

After pitching ineffectively in spring training in 1991, Valenzuela was released by the Dodgers.

* On May 11, 1919, Walter Johnson, pitching for the Senators against the Yankees, retired 28 batters in row: After surrendering a one-out single in the first to Roger Peckinpaugh and then retiring the next two batters to end the inning, he was perfect in the second through the ninth.

After pitching poorly in April and nearly getting released, Gooden no-hit the Seattle Mariners 2-0 at Yankee Stadium on May 14.

After broadcasting several poor pitching performances in a row, he grew frustrated, saying on the air, " Doggone it, I can pitch better than nine out of the ten guys on this staff!

After his retirement from baseball, Sutcliffe became a color commentator for the San Diego Padres on Channel 4 San Diego ( 1997 – 2004 ), ESPN ( 1998 – present ) and DirecTV / MLB International ( 1997 – 2002 and since 2010, as well as a minor-league pitching coach in the San Diego Padres system for a couple of seasons.

After pitching for a year and a half in St. Louis, Quisenberry signed to play the 1990 season with the San Francisco Giants.

The danger first came to light in a near-crash during a 1962 test flight when de Havilland pilots Peter Bugge and Ron Clear were testing the Trident's stalling characteristics by pitching its nose progressively higher, thus reducing its airspeed: " After a critical angle of attack was reached, the Trident began to sink tail-down in a deep stall.

After the pitching of this film, studio marketing executives took it to be an action-adventure hybrid rather than what Ridley Scott and William Monahan intended it to be: a historical epic examining religious conflict.

After some encouraging outings in early spring training, pain in Gagné's pitching elbow forced him to undergo a second surgery, this time to remove entirely the nerve that doctors had previously attempted to stabilize.

After retiring as a player in 1975, Gibson later served as pitching coach for his former teammate Joe Torre.

After pitching into the tenth inning of the July 4 game against the Cubs, Gibson was removed from a game without finishing an inning for the first time in more than 60 consecutive starts, a streak spanning two years.

After Torre and his coaching staff were let go at the end of the 1981 season, Torre moved on to coach the Atlanta Braves in 1982, where he hired Gibson as a pitching coach.

After pitching well in the strike-shortened 1994 season, Johnson won the American League Cy Young Award in 1995 with an 18 – 2 record, 2. 48 ERA and 294 strikeouts.

After the Braves acquired Greg Maddux from the Chicago Cubs in 1993, Glavine, Maddux, and Smoltz formed one of the best pitching rotations in baseball history.

After pitching one game for the Class A Appleton, Drabek was promoted to the AA Glens Falls White Sox and was 12 – 5 with a 2. 24 ERA.

After beginning the inning by walking Rickey Henderson, Williams tried to counter Henderson's speed by using a slide-step style of pitching delivery.

After averaging over 250 innings per season from 1985 to 1989, Hershiser suffered a career-threatening injury when he tore the rotator cuff in his pitching arm on April 25, 1990, against the St. Louis Cardinals.

After the 1907 season, Chesbro announced that he was giving up the experimental spitball, intending to return to the " old style of pitching " in 1908.

After a series of rival leagues were organized but failed, ( most notably the American Base Ball Association, which spawned the clubs which would ultimately become the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers ) the current American League, evolving from the minor Western League of 1893, was established in 1901.

After the loss of Richard and some offensive struggles, the Astros slipped to third place in the division behind the Dodgers and the Reds.

After the season, Robinson was traded by the Dodgers to the arch-rival New York Giants for Dick Littlefield and $ 35, 000 cash ( equal to $ today ).

After Smith's teammate Jack Clark hit a late-inning home run of his own in Game 6 to defeat the Dodgers, the Cardinals moved on to face the Kansas City Royals in the 1985 World Series.

After sitting on the bench for the Pirates ' first three games, Clemente played on April 17, 1955, in the first game of a double header against the Dodgers and made his first major league hit, a ground ball that hit off the glove of shortstop Pee Wee Reese, as well as a catch-dubbed " heart-stopping " by a Pirates beat writer-to rob his Santurce teammate, Junior Gilliam.

After the final game of the season, a defeat to the Los Angeles Dodgers, home plate was ceremoniously removed and taken by CHP helicopter to the new grounds where the downtown stadium was being built.

After the 1957 season, Dodgers owner Walter O ' Malley decided to move the team to Los Angeles for financial reasons, among others.

After the war many players returned to their teams, while the major event of the second half of the 1940s was the 1945 signing of Jackie Robinson to a players contract by Branch Rickey the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

After the general manager of the Danville Dodgers of the Illinois-Indiana-Iowa League reported that he did not feel that league ready for racial integration, the organization sent Campanella, along with pitcher Don Newcombe, to the Nashua Dodgers of the Class B New England League, where the Dodgers felt the climate would be more tolerant.

After the Dodgers dropped the first two games of that year's World Series to the Yankees, Campanella began Brooklyn's comeback by hitting a two-out, two-run home run in the first inning of Game 3.

After the 1957 season, the Brooklyn Dodgers relocated to Los Angeles, California, and became the Los Angeles Dodgers, but Campanella's playing career came to an end before he ever played a game for Los Angeles.

After his playing career, Campanella remained involved with the Dodgers.

After Dodgers accidentally takes Hal Jordan's uniform from the dry cleaners, he is teleported to the Corps location by the ring, where they are in a fight with a large number of Sinestro's robots.

After finishing a close second to the Los Angeles Dodgers in, in the Reds blew the division open by winning 108 games.

After Hu singled in his third at bat in a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on September 23, Dodgers announcer Vin Scully said, " OK everybody, all together ... Hu's on first!

After acquiring Fernando Valenzuela in the summer of 1979, the Dodgers assigned him to the Lodi Dodgers ( now the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes ) of the High-A level California League, where he posted a 1 – 2 record and a 1. 13 ERA in limited action.

After his father asked Lasorda to select Piazza as a favor, the Miami-Dade Community College student was drafted by the Dodgers in the 62nd round of the 1988 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft as the 1, 390th player picked overall in the draft.

After hitting 28 home runs and bringing in 99 runs batted in a successful first year for the Dodgers, injuries and personal problems kept him sidelined for much of the next two seasons, hitting five home runs in each season.