Editing Herb Score (section)

==MLB playing career==

===Cleveland Indians (1955–1959)===
In {{Baseball year|1955}}, Score came up to the major leagues (with Colavito) as a rookie with the [[Cleveland Guardians|Cleveland Indians]] at the age of 21. He quickly became one of the top [[power pitcher]]s in the [[American League]], no small feat on a team that still included Feller, [[Bob Lemon]], and other top pitchers, going 16&ndash;10 with a 2.85 [[earned run average]] in his first year.<ref name="Score Stats">{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/scorehe01.shtml|title=Herb Score Stats|work=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=April 13, 2017}}</ref> He appeared on the cover of ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'' magazine on May 30, 1955.<ref name="Score Bio" /> Score struck out 245 batters in 1955, a major league rookie record that stood until {{Baseball year|1984}}, when it was topped by [[Dwight Gooden]] (Score, Gooden, [[Grover Cleveland Alexander]], [[Don Sutton]], [[Gary Nolan (baseball)|Gary Nolan]], [[Kerry Wood]], [[Mark Langston]], and [[Hideo Nomo]] were the only eight rookie pitchers to top 200 strikeouts in the 20th century). It was the first time in major league history that a regular starting pitcher averaged over one strikeout per inning.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1170229/index.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100608033044/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1170229/index.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=June 8, 2010 | title=What Took You So Long? | magazine=Sports Illustrated | date=June 7, 2010 | access-date=June 7, 2010}}</ref>

In {{Baseball year|1956}}, Score improved on his rookie campaign, going 20&ndash;9 with a 2.53 earned run average and 263 strikeouts, while reducing the number of walks from 154 to 129, and allowed only 5.85 hits per 9 innings,<ref name="Score Stats" /> which remained a franchise record until it was broken by [[Luis Tiant]]'s 5.30 in {{Baseball year|1968}}.

====Injury from Gil McDougald's line drive====
On May 7, {{Baseball year|1957}}, during the first inning of a night game against the [[New York Yankees]] at [[Cleveland Stadium|Municipal Stadium]] in [[Cleveland]], Score threw a low [[fastball]] to [[Gil McDougald]] with [[Jim Hegan]] catching. McDougald lined the pitch to the mound and struck Score in the face, breaking Score's facial bones and injuring his eye. The ball caromed to third baseman [[Al Smith (outfielder)|Al Smith]], who threw McDougald out before he rushed to the [[pitching mound]] to aid Score. McDougald, seeing Score hit by the baseball and then lying down and injured, also ran immediately to the pitching mound, instead of [[first base]], to help Score. McDougald reportedly vowed to retire if Score permanently lost his sight in one eye as a result of the accident. Score eventually recovered his 20/20 vision, though he missed the rest of the season.

He returned early in the {{Baseball year|1958}} season.<ref name="Score Bio" /> Though many believe he feared being hit by another batted ball, and thus changed his pitching motion, Score rejected that theory. Score would tell Cleveland sportswriter [[Terry Pluto]] (for ''The Curse of Rocky Colavito'') that, in 1958, after pitching and winning a few games and feeling better than he'd felt in a long time, he tore a tendon in his arm while pitching on a damp night against the [[Washington Senators (1901–60)|Washington Senators]] and sat out the rest of the season.

In 1959, he shifted his pitching motion in a bid to avoid another, similar injury. "The reason my motion changed", Score told Pluto, "was because I hurt my elbow, and I overcompensated for it and ended up with some bad habits." As a result of the changes Score made in his pitching delivery, his velocity dropped and he incurred further injuries. Score pitched the full {{Baseball year|1959}} season, going 9&ndash;11 with a 4.71 earned run average and 147 strikeouts.<ref name="Score Stats" />

In the book ''The Greatest Team Of All Time'' (Bob Adams, Inc, publisher. 1994), [[Mickey Mantle]]  picked Score as the toughest American League left-handed pitcher he faced (before the injury). [[Yogi Berra]] picked Score for his "Greatest Team Of All Time".

===Chicago White Sox (1960–1962)===
Score was traded to the [[Chicago White Sox]] by Cleveland on April 18, 1960 for pitcher [[Barry Latman]].<ref>''Plain Dealer'', April 19, 1960</ref> Score's roommate, Colavito, was traded to the Detroit Tigers the previous day.<ref name="Wancho"/> Score was reunited on the Chicago team with some former Indians players and manager Al Lopez.<ref name="Score Bio"/> Score pitched parts of the following three seasons before retiring. He finished with a major league career record of 55&ndash;46, a 3.36 earned run average, and 837 strikeouts over eight seasons in 858{{fraction|1|3}} [[innings pitched]].<ref name="Score Stats" />