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NEW TRIVIA QUESTION: How many shutouts did Thurman Munson catch? TOTAL 10 POINTS.
Making a major league debut often means an at-bat as a pinch-hitter and usually ends up with not much happening. It wasn't that way for Yankee catcher Thurman Munson. Munson's debut on August 8, 1969 was exceptional. It came in the second game of a double header at home against the Oakland A's and Catfish Hunter, a future Yankee teammate.
Then in the bottom of the eighth, facing Marcell Lachemann who had relived Hunter and with the Yankees leading 3-0, Munson came to the plate with the bases loaded and nobody out. The future All-Star singled in two runs and took second on a throwing error. The Yankees won the game 5-0 with Munson going two-for-three, two RBI and to boot his first game in the Bigs, he caught a shutout from Downing. Now that's a debut.
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