Career
Locke was a right-handed pitcher who appeared in two Major League Baseball games for the 1955 Baltimore Orioles, and although he allowed no hits or runs in three total innings of work as a reliever, he never again pitched in the Majors. Locke, who stood 5 feet 11 inches (180 m) tall and weighed 185 pounds (84 kg), spent nine years (1950–1958) in professional baseball. All but four games were played in the Baltimore organization.
In his MLB debut, at Memorial Stadium against the Washington Senators, he came into the game in the eighth inning with Baltimore trailing, 7–4.
Locke allowed one baserunner, on an error, but got out of the inning unscathed when Eddie Yost"s fly ball resulted in a 9–6–5 double play. In his second and final appearance a week later, also against the Senators (but at Griffith Stadium), Locke pitched the last two innings of a 7–3 Oriole defeat.
He retired Washington in order in the seventh, and in the eighth recorded his only Major League strikeout (Yost) and base on balls (José Valdivielso).
