In a day game at Dodger Stadium Manny Mota-how different were rosters in the 70's? Some teams had 'pinch-hitters deluxe.' Many Mota, Del Unser and Rusty Staub would also serve exclusively as pinch-hitters and do nothing else. Since most teams back then only carried 10 pitchers you could afford to expend a spot on a player who did nothing but pinch-hit.
In the game Mota pinch-hit for the late Ken Brett in the 8th inning facing the last Lynn McGlothen. Singling to right field Mota set the record then was pince-run for by Von Joshua. Bruce Sutter then came in and shut down the Dodger rally however in the bottom of the 9th Sutter surrendered a two-out grand-slam to Davy Lopes and the Dodgers won the game 6-2.
If you couldn't tell these pics were an experiment that failed. Back to the dreary way I copy the pics for the next ones.
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