Editing Herb Score (section)

====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".