John Romonosky was an American

United States

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 professional baseball

Professional baseball

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 player. A 6 inch, 195 lb (88.5 kg) right-handed pitcher

Pitcher

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, he played parts of three seasons in Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

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, appearing in 32 games

Games played

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 for the 1953 St. Louis Cardinals

St. Louis Cardinals

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 and the 1958–59 Washington Senators

Minnesota Twins

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. His minor league baseball

Minor league baseball

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 career spanned 13 seasons between 1949 and 1961.

After his first recall from the minor leagues, Romonosky started

Starting pitcher

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 two games for the Cardinals at the end of the 1953 campaign, earning no decisions

Decision (baseball)

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. In fact, in his Major League debut against the Milwaukee Braves

Atlanta Braves

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, the second game of a Sunday doubleheader

Doubleheader (baseball)

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 at County Stadium

Milwaukee County Stadium

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, the game ended in a 3–3 tie after eight innings of play. Romonosky allowed three earned runs and seven hits

Hit (baseball)

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 in six innings, with two bases on balls and three strikeout

Strikeout

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Sent back to the minors by St. Louis for the 1954 season, Romonosky didn't return to the majors until July 1958 as a member of the Senators. He started five games during that month, but won only one game (losing the other four) and he worked out of the bullpen for the remainder of the 1958 campaign, appearing in 18 total MLB games. He began the next season with Washington, and worked in 12 more contests, two as a starter. He posted a career-best 3.29 earned run average

Earned run average

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 that season, but did not pitch in a big-league game after July 27 and spent part of the season with the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts

Chattanooga Lookouts

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. However, in his final Major League game in September 1959, he pinch-ran

Pinch runner

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 for Senators' slugger Roy Sievers

Roy Sievers

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 in the eighth inning and scored the winning run

Run (baseball)

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 in a 5–4 win over the Cleveland Indians

Cleveland Indians

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 at Griffith Stadium

Griffith Stadium

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All told, Romonosky yielded 97 hits and 51 bases on balls in 101⅓ major league innings, with 63 strikeouts.

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