Just for the record, no one has ever hit four in my 40 years. Yes, Drysdale – a pitcher – had just joined three other position players (Foster, Petrocelli, and Gentile) in the three-homer club. I actually sat back in my chair for five minutes trying to fully comprehend what just happened. With only the slightest recognition of what he had done on the previous two at bats, I roll. In total honesty, I was still fixed on his pitching performance – just six more outs. ATLANTA (AP) Former Atlanta catcher Biff Pocoroba, who played in the 1978 All-Star Game and was a backup on the Braves team that won an improbable NL West title in 1982, has died at age 66. He quickly encounters difficulty with the bottom of the order, and “the slugger” is up again. With Koosman now gone, righty reliever Cal Koonce takes the mound in the eighth. Then he shuts New York down 1-2-3 in the bottom half. I already knew this was a first - no pitcher had ever chalked up a multi-home run game. In the top of the seventh with a man on, Drysdale steps up and homers again off of Koosman (pitcher’s card this time). At this point, I’m wondering whether he’ll post the club’s third straight shutout. Through six innings, Drysdale has a 1-hit shutout going – not to mention he’s already helped himself with a solo home run (2-12 roll on No. Koufax fires a 2-hit shutout in the opening game and Sutton follows with a 5-hit shutout. 982 fielding %.So here’s how my 2016 season starts. Defensively he threw out 34% of would be base stealers, posting a. 257 with 374 hits 21 HRs 71 doubles 172 RBIs & a. ![]() He retired in 1984 after only four games at the young age of 30. He stayed with the Braves for six more seasons as a backup catcher & third baseman. ![]() He injured himself & needed rotator cuff surgery which ruined any chances of him being a top player. That card also features the classic blue Braves uniform with that red, white & blue feather on the sleeve. Like many catchers of the era, Biff didn’t wear a batting helmet under his mask, as it hadn’t become a rule yet. 242, with 6 HRs & 34 RBIs.īiff’s 1978 baseball card was always one of my favorites, he looks like real old time catcher, a cheek full of tobacco squinting into the sun, as he adjusts his catcher’s mask to go over his cap. The main reason Pocoroba was added to the roster by NL Manager Tommy Lasorda was to handle Niekro's famous knuckle ball. He didn’t get an at bat, but caught the final out of the game from teammate Phil Niekro. In May he hit a walk off grand slam HR to beat the Montreal Expos at Fulton County Stadium.Īll Star: He had a good start in 1978 and represented the lowly Braves in that years All Star Game, catching the whole 9th inning as a defensive replacement. Did you know that in the Biff Pocoroba Miscellaneous All-Star Items of Interest section seen above you can click the Stats link under the All-Star label and a truly comprehensive history of that All-Star Game will. By 1977 he was the Braves main catcher, batting. Biff Pocoroba All-Star Stats by Baseball Almanac. His defense got better as he went along, throwing out 34% of the base runners attempting to steal the next two seasons. Defensively he had a rougher time than in Spring Training, throwing out only 17% of base stealers while getting charged with 13 passed balls. Pocoroba would see action in 67 games, batting. He made the Braves squad that year, backing up catcherVic Correl who only hit. In 1975 he began to get some attention when he threw out eleven straight would be base stealers during Braves Spring Training. STRAT-O-MATIC Signed Card Biff Pocoroba 1983 Braves Breathe easy. The five foot ten inch catcher, was signed in the seventeenth round of the 1971 amateur draft by the Atlanta Braves. To everyone's surprise, his actual name on his birth certificate is Biff. ![]() He was selected to play in 1 All-Star Game. 257 batting average with 374 hits, 21 home runs, 172 runs batted in, and 132 runs scored. Biff Benedict Pocoroba was born on Jin Burbank, California. Catcher Biff Pocoroba played 10 seasons for the Braves.
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