August 30, โ January 5, was an American professional baseball relief pitcher. McGraw was one of six Phillies players to die prematurely from glioblastoma , a brain cancer.
After his divorce in the early s, Frank Sr. Tug graduated from St. He went 6โ4 that year with a 1. McGraw qualified for the Mets in Spring training in at age 20, without ever having played double- or triple-A ball. There, he played under manager Casey Stengel , who retired that year. McGraw made the team as a reliever, and was 0โ1 with a 3. He lasted just two-thirds of an inning and gave up three earned runs on his way to a 9โ0 loss the Cubs blew the Mets out in the first game as well, 7โ2.
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The Mets used McGraw as a starter again in , and he was 2โ9 with a 5. Though he also made four starts with the Mets in , McGraw spent most of the season, and all of in the minor leagues with the Jacksonville Suns. In , he went with a 3. McGraw went 1โ1 with a 5. Koosman returned to the rotation at the end of the month and on May 28, after a five-game losing streak that saw the Mets fall into fourth place in the newly aligned National League East , Koosman and the expansion San Diego Padres ' Clay Kirby engaged in a pitchers' duel at Shea.
After nine scoreless innings by Kirby and ten by Koosman, the game was turned over to the bullpens for extra innings. The game finally ended after 11 innings when Bud Harrelson hit a single to drive in Cleon Jones.
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McGraw pitched the 11th inning to earn the win. In June , manager Gil Hodges suggested that Tug should become a relief pitcher , a decision he agreed with and that changed his career.
