[1] In his third minor league season, he pitched his first no-hitter on September 21, 1939, against the Tacoma Tigers, winning 8-0 with the only opposing baserunner reaching on an error, giving his Wenatchee Chiefs their first playoff win after losing the first three games of the series to Tacoma.

[2] Bevens pitched for four years in the Yankees' minor league farm system before they brought him up to the majors, where he attained a career record of 40–36 with a 3.08 earned run average.

The Yankees were nursing a 2–1 lead, with Brooklyn having scored their run in the 5th on two walks, a sacrifice play, and a ground out.

With two outs and two on in the bottom of the ninth, Lavagetto swung and missed for strike one, but on Bevens' second (and last) pitch, he lined a double off the right field wall, scoring both runners and winning the game for the Dodgers 3-2 with their only hit.

[5][6][7] On October 6, Bevens returned to the mound for 22⁄3 innings of scoreless early relief in the deciding Game 7, helping the Yankees to win the world championship.