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Show I Old Cy Young Holds Major League Record V Denton T (Cy) Young, holds ? J the major league record for con- X secutive shutout innings. He Y j. pitched 45 innings in a row In o. X which opposing teams did not x J make a run. & S There is another record that should be bracketed with this one. It concerns a left-handed pitcher named Walter Leverenz, a who worked for the St. Louis !j Americans several years ago. J X Leverenz pitched 55 consecu- v tive innings in which his team ? did not score a run for him. In X other words, Leverenz was shut J out six games in a row. And Y, the peculiar part of it w-as that Y Leverenz pitched good ball in these games ; his team simply j could not hit opposing pitching well enough to score one run. 'X |