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Brewer hard lu< By Richard Meyers A??l*t?nt Sports Editor In baseball terminology, a hard luck pitcher is defined as a moundsman who pitches a fine ballgame, but whose team doesn't score enough runs for him and all the pitcher has to show for his effort are a low ERA and one more loss. Milwaukee Brewer pitcher Moose Haas ic hairinit tlin l/inrl u uTing utv ninu v>i oraouu in 1980. "Every team has a hard luck pitcher that doesn't get any runs, and in that case, I'm it this year," Haas said. Haas* record is very deceiving. He has a lower ERA (2.63), more strikeouts, shutouts and a better strikeout-walk ratio than the major league's winningest pitcher, Steve Stone. Yet Ilaas' record is 14 wins and 9 losses, while Stone sports baseball's best slate at 20-4. Stranger still is that the Brewers are known for their heavy hitting-except when Haas is on the mound. The team ranks fifth in the major leagues in hitting and is second in home runs. But the Brewer's bats seem to go sleep when Haas is on the i mound. They have averaged i less than one run a game in the right-handers nine setbacks. I "In my nine losses, I've t goi a total of eight runs and 1 I've been shutout three i times," Haas said. "I'm 5 losing games 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 1 whereas with the club we < got, we should be winning ] some of those games with i the kind of hitting we have." csame Sports 1/ Meet ! Tonii Room 3. 7:00 i I ? PWBflfflS I "BE A WINNER" - SI SAV Q^^TENNiS Q 2IOCATIONS [ 3127 Millwood Ave*B WE MEL V into We Also J Buy Scrap J Cold! IS ' AT THE JEWELRY W> 2909 PL ATT SPRINGS RD., W "It's More Than Just Anc s' Haas 1 :k seaso MILWAUKEE BREWER manager George Bam- < berger thinks Haas, the ! Brewer leader in victories, i strikeouts and shutouts. 1 could have about four or five 1 more wins if he got just a few t runs a game to work with. i "I've been very impressed with Moose Haas. He has a 1 good arm, and four excellent < pitches with a great com- i mand of all of them. He has ? pitched excellent baseball r this year, but for some I reason, every time he pit- t ches, we can't get any runs t for him. What it is, I don't t know. But I do know that he t could very easily have four g or five more wins right h now. r E "Last year, he was coming v off a bad arm, and it took n him about a half a year k before he came back to be f< the pitcher we thought he could be. Plus he's one more year older, and he has one 1I1VSI v jr va< U1 CAJJCJ IClltC. "You have to remember that Moose is just a young boy (24) in this game. Putting all those things together, finally, Moose is to me, considered a top pitcher now." 11AAS' ERA and strikeout :otals have placed him in the op five in the American eague for the past two nonins. He has tossed three shutouts and appears to have returned to the form that enabled him to strikeout 14 New York Yankees in the second week of the 1978 season. cock vriters iffgy jht 21 RH JTlkD 1A/ITU I ir iwi vviin us f\rnu fE SKI RUNNING RAQUETBALL loozer Shopping Ctr. T GOLD ) Bars \REHOUSE SALE . COLA. 9til6Mon.-Sat. >ther Jewelry Store" I laving n Six days after setting the lub record for most trikeouts in a game, Haas uffered a torn muscle in his ight arm and spent the etter part of two seasons on tie road to a complete ecovery. * so tar, it's been a hard lck year for me. I probably ould be right up there with tone and Gura and those uys in wins, but there is othing you can do about it. ; counts as a win mentally, ecause I'm throwing the all good, and I've only had vo bad starts. The other mes I've been throwing ood, winning type allgames. 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