1936 openers in same game including Fireman Johnny Murphy of the Yankees.

Two relief pitchers starting the same 1936 game noticed by chance in the previous post on a completely different subject. They were not openers in the current sense, which has become all the rage: having a one inning pitcher pitch in the first inning. These 1936 pitchers were apparently expected to perform like starters and pitch at least 5 innings.

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Sunday, May 10, 1936

Attendance: 32,000

Venue: Yankee Stadium I

Game Duration: 2:15

Day Game, on grass

Yankees 7, Athletics 2 ...

21 year old righty starter Turbeville was in the second of three seasons: 15 starts, 47 relief. An opener? Yankee relief ace Johnny Murphy started and went 7.66 innings: in 1936 5 starts, 22 relief.

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Philadelphia Athletics:

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA	BF	GSc	IR	IS	WPA	aLI	RE24
George Turbeville, L (1-3)	5	5	6	5	3	0	2	5.18	24	32			-0.196	0.54	-2.9
Whitey Wilshere	2	2	1	1	3	2	0	10.13	11		0	0	-0.005	0.09	0.2
Woody Upchurch	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	3.00	3		0	0	0.002	0.03	0.6
Team Totals	8	7	7	6	6	3	2	6.75	38	32	0	0	-0.199	0.38	-2.0

Yankees:

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA	BF	GSc	IR	IS	WPA	aLI	RE24
Johnny Murphy, W (2-1)	7.2	4	2	2	7	4	0	2.12	33	60			0.264	0.57	2.1
Pat Malone, S (2)	1.1	0	0	0	0	2	0	1.06	4		3	0	0.038	0.34	1.5
Team Totals	9	4	2	2	7	6	0	2.00	37	60	3	0	0.302	0.55	3.6

Turbeville:

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	IP	G	GS	R	RA9	RA9opp	RA9def	RA9role	PPFp	RA9avg	RAA	WAA	gmLI	WAAadj	WAR	RAR	waaWL%	162WL%	Salary	Awards
1935	20	PHA	AL	63.2	19	6	58	8.20	5.32	-0.13	0.00	101.0	5.50	-19	-1.7	.39	0.2	-0.9	-12	.412	.490	$1,800
1936	21	PHA	AL	43.2	12	6	36	7.42	6.14	-0.11	0.00	98.0	6.13	-6	-0.5	.20	0.0	-0.1	-1	.455	.497	$2,100
1937	22	PHA	AL	77.2	31	3	50	5.79	5.36	-0.07	0.00	102.2	5.55	-2	-0.2	.69	0.0	0.5	7	.493	.499	$2,000
3 Seasons				185.0	62	15	144	7.01	5.53	-0.10	0.00	100.8	5.67	-28	-2.4	.54	0.1	-0.4	-5	.461	.496	$5,900

Murphy:

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W	Awards
1932	23	NYY	AL	0	0		16.20	2	0	2	0	0	0	3.1	7	6	6	0	3		2	0	0	0	19	28	4.52	3.000	18.9	0.0	8.1	5.4	0.67
1934	25	NYY	AL	14	10	.583	3.12	40	20	13	10	0	4	207.2	193	79	72	11	76		70	0	0	1	859	131	4.23	1.295	8.4	0.5	3.3	3.0	0.92
1935	26	NYY	AL	10	5	.667	4.08	40	8	19	4	0	5	117.0	110	67	53	7	55		28	0	0	1	510	100	4.77	1.410	8.5	0.5	4.2	2.2	0.51
1936	27	NYY	AL	9	3	.750	3.38	27	5	12	2	0	5	88.0	90	38	33	5	36		34	1	0	1	382	138	4.49	1.432	9.2	0.5	3.7	3.5	0.94
1937	28	NYY	AL	13	4	.765	4.17	39	4	30	0	0	10	110.0	121	59	51	7	50		36	1	0	2	497	108	4.60	1.555	9.9	0.6	4.1	2.9	0.72	AS
1938	29	NYY	AL	8	2	.800	4.24	32	2	26	1	0	11	91.1	90	47	43	5	41		43	1	0	0	398	108	4.07	1.434	8.9	0.5	4.0	4.2	1.05	AS
1939	30	NYY	AL	3	6	.333	4.40	38	0	34	0	0	19	61.1	57	33	30	2	28		30	0	0	0	260	99	3.79	1.386	8.4	0.3	4.1	4.4	1.07	AS
1940	31	NYY	AL	8	4	.667	3.69	35	1	28	0	0	9	63.1	58	27	26	5	15		23	0	0	1	255	110	3.85	1.153	8.2	0.7	2.1	3.3	1.53
1941	32	NYY	AL	8	3	.727	1.98	35	0	31	0	0	15	77.1	68	20	17	1	40	0	29	0	0	3	333	200	3.63	1.397	7.9	0.1	4.7	3.4	0.73
1942	33	NYY	AL	4	10	.286	3.41	31	0	26	0	0	11	58.0	66	27	22	2	23	0	24	2	0	1	260	101	3.33	1.534	10.2	0.3	3.6	3.7	1.04
1943	34	NYY	AL	12	4	.750	2.51	37	0	32	0	0	8	68.0	44	22	19	2	30	0	31	0	0	2	275	129	3.20	1.088	5.8	0.3	4.0	4.1	1.03	MVP-33
1944			Did not play in major or minor leagues (Military Service)
1945			Did not play in major or minor leagues (Military Service)
1946	37	NYY	AL	4	2	.667	3.40	27	0	24	0	0	7	45.0	40	22	17	4	19	0	19	0	0	1	192	102	3.96	1.311	8.0	0.8	3.8	3.8	1.00
1947	38	BOS	AL	0	0		2.80	32	0	16	0	0	3	54.2	41	17	17	1	28	0	9	0	0	2	231	139	3.94	1.262	6.8	0.2	4.6	1.5	0.32
13 Yrs				93	53	.637	3.50	415	40	293	17	0	107	1045.0	985	464	406	52	444	0	378	5	0	15	4471	117	4.10	1.367	8.5	0.4	3.8	3.3	0.85

Career:
Turbeville: 62 games, 15 starts (24%) 
Murphy: 415 games, 40 starts (9.6%)

1936:
Turbeville: 12 games, 6 starts (50%)
Murphy: 27 games, 5 starts (18.5%)

Hall of Fame Yankee manager Joe McCarthy obviously evolved in his use of Murphy as the number of starts trended down 1934-1943: 20, 8, 5, 4, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0.

McCarthy generally did not overwork his Yankee starting pitchers. In 1936 only Red Ruffing and Monte Pearson were among AL leaders in:
Starts:

1.	Bridges • DET	38
	Ferrell • BOS	38
	Newsom • WSH	38
4.	Rowe • DET	35
5.	Kennedy • CHW	34
6.	Ruffing • NYY	33
7.	Whitehead • CHW	32
8.	Auker • DET	31
	Allen • CLE	31
	Pearson • NYY	31
	DeShong • WSH	31

Complete Games:

1.	Ferrell • BOS	28
2.	Bridges • DET	26
3.	Ruffing • NYY	25
4.	Newsom • WSH	24
5.	Grove • BOS	22
6.	Kennedy • CHW	20
	Kelley • PHA	20
8.	Allen • CLE	19
	Rowe • DET	19
10.	DeShong • WSH	16

Innings:

1.	Ferrell • BOS	301.0
2.	Bridges • DET	294.2
3.	Newsom • WSH	285.2
4.	Kennedy • CHW	274.1
5.	Ruffing • NYY	271.0
6.	Grove • BOS	253.1
7.	Rowe • DET	245.1
8.	Allen • CLE	243.0
9.	Kelley • PHA	235.1
10.	Whitehead • CHW	230.2

On the other hand, look at relief stats:

Games pitched:

1.	Van Atta • SLB	52
2.	Knott • SLB	47
3.	Ostermueller • BOS	43
	Lee • CLE	43
	Newsom • WSH	43
	Wilson • BOS	43
7.	Hogsett • 2TM	42
8.	Caldwell • SLB	41
	Lawson • DET	41
	Russell • 2TM	41
	Rowe • DET	41

Pat Malone, who finished Murphy's start above, led the 1936 Yankee pitchers with 35 games, which included 9 starts. Malone is listed as the closer. Innings:
Malone 134
Murphy 88

Saves:

1.	Malone • NYY	9
2.	Knott • SLB	6
3.	Murphy • NYY	5
	Brown • CHW	5
5.	Hildebrand • CLE	4

Malone and Murphy are 1 and 3.

McCarthy used only his two best relief pitchers and no "starting" pitchers in that game.

By 1941 27 starts led the Yankees:

Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS ▼	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
1	SP	Marius Russo*	26	14	10	.583	3.09	28	27	1	17	3	1	209.2	195	85	72	8	87	0	105	1	0	3	886	128	3.42	1.345	8.4	0.3	3.7	4.5	1.21
2	SP	Red Ruffing	36	15	6	.714	3.54	23	23	0	13	2	0	185.2	177	87	73	13	54	0	60	1	0	1	771	112	3.82	1.244	8.6	0.6	2.6	2.9	1.11
3	SP	Lefty Gomez*	32	15	5	.750	3.74	23	23	0	8	2	0	156.1	151	76	65	10	103	0	76	1	0	5	712	106	4.52	1.625	8.7	0.6	5.9	4.4	0.74
4	SP	Spud Chandler	33	10	4	.714	3.19	28	20	5	11	4	4	163.2	146	68	58	5	60	0	60	0	0	3	682	124	3.43	1.259	8.0	0.3	3.3	3.3	1.00
5	SP	Atley Donald	30	9	5	.643	3.57	22	20	2	10	0	0	159.0	141	69	63	11	69	0	71	3	0	5	673	111	4.03	1.321	8.0	0.6	3.9	4.0	1.03
6	SP	Marv Breuer	27	9	7	.563	4.09	26	18	4	7	1	2	141.0	131	73	64	10	49	0	77	2	1	4	595	97	3.58	1.277	8.4	0.6	3.1	4.9	1.57
7	RP	Tiny Bonham	27	9	6	.600	2.98	23	14	5	7	1	2	126.2	118	44	42	12	31	0	43	1	0	0	518	132	3.97	1.176	8.4	0.9	2.2	3.1	1.3