The Pittsburgh Roadrunner's, trying to hang around the middle of the pack in the SJL and give themselves at least a shot of climbing into contention, are currently a game over .500 in 5th place and trail the leading team, cross-state rivals the Philadelphia Mud Hens, by 8 1/2 games.
And today the Roadrunners suffered the toughest loss of the season so far as they lost 2 players to season-ending injuries: starting pitcher Fumito Kunishi, who it was just announced is currently 5th in the All-Star voting for SJL starting pitchers, and speedy second baseman Bill Craig. Konishi is suffering from shoulder inflammation that is expected to sideline him for 4-5 months while Craig tore his ACL and will likely not be able to play again until sometime during spring training 1975.
Konishi was the ace of a staff that has done pretty well this year (4th in ERA, team overall 2nd in runs allowed) but that doesn't run terribly deep. Craig's most likely replacement is 26-year old back-up Matt Harrington, who is a very fine fielder and a very weak hitter.
