American baseball player (1935–2015)
Baseball player
Bob Dustal Pitcher Born: (1935-09-28 ) September 28, 1935Sayreville, New Jersey , U.S.Died: November 30, 2015(2015-11-30) (aged 80)Lakeland, Florida , U.S.Batted: Right
Threw: Right
April 9, 1963, for the Detroit Tigers May 2, 1963, for the Detroit Tigers Win–loss record 0–1 Earned run average 9.00 Innings 6
Robert Andrew Dustal (September 28, 1935 – November 30, 2015) was an American professional baseball player. A 6 ft (1.8 m), 172 lb (78 kg) right-handed pitcher whose professional career lasted for 14 seasons (1955–1968), Dustal appeared in seven Major League games as a relief pitcher for the 1963 Detroit Tigers . In his only decision , on April 20, 1963, at Fenway Park , he suffered an excruciating loss when he allowed a game-winning, two-run double to Román Mejías in the bottom of the 15th inning to give the Boston Red Sox a come-from-behind, 4–3 victory over his Tigers.[ 1]
Dustal allowed nine runs, six of them earned , over six innings of relief, giving up ten hits and five bases on balls . He won 116 games over the course of his minor league career, most of it played in the Tiger organization.[ 2] farm system in the late 1960s.
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