NDC Yankees Saturday "implosion"
sacha
night
featured two complete games, and the total number of pitches, both
teams, was less than the Yankee staff threw all by themselves that
same day losing 22-4 to the Tribe.
Heres a linescore for the books though...
Marichal Vs. Spahn 7-2-63
San Francisco Giants 1, Milwaukee Braves 0
Game Played on Tuesday, July 2, 1963 (N) at Candlestick Park
MIL N 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -
0 8 1
SF N 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 -
1 9 1
PITCHING
Milwaukee Braves IP H R ER BB SO HR
Spahn L(11-4) 15.1 9 1 1 1 2 1
San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO HR
Marichal W(13-3) 16 8 0 0 4 10 0
Baseball season is one week old. To celebrate America's pastime, I
intend to write occasionally about some of the sport's most memorable
games, complete with box scores supplied by www.retrosheet.org. We
begin with one of the greatest duels in Major League history: Juan
Marichal (SF Giants) vs. Warren Spahn (Milwaukee Braves) at San
Francisco's Candlestick Park on July 2, 1963. The 42 year old veteran
against the young Dominican, both eventually to be in Cooperstown. The
crowd that night witnessed the greatest pitching performance in the
history of the Stick, one of the greatest two-man duels of all-time.
For 15 innings, Warren Spahn and Juan Marichal put matching sets of
zeros up on the Candlestick scoreboard. Inning after inning, deep into
the night, nobody could score. Finally, the end came suddenly -- with
one out in the 16th, shortly after midnight, the Giants' Willie Mays
hit a home run.* Over the last eight innings, Marichal held the Braves
to two hits and retired 17 in a row at one stretch.Spahn finished the
night having allowed nine hits and just the one, intentional, walk. He
struck out two. Marichal gave up eight hits, walked four and struck
out 10. Each threw more than 200 pitches, Marichal threw a staggering
total of 227 pitches.
Extra Notes: Spahn went 23-7 in 1963 (at age 42!) matching Christy
Mathewson for most 20 game winning seasons: 13. He is the winningest
lefty in baseball history with 363 wins.
Marichal pitched his 1st no-hitter a couple of weeks before this game,
becoming the first Latin player to accomplish that feat. From 1962
through 1971 Marichal averaged 20 wins per season. He led the NL in
wins in 1963 (25-8) and 1968 (26-9); in shutouts in 1965 (10) and 1969
(8); and in ERA in 1969 (2.10). A workhorse, he topped the league in
innings pitched in 1963 and '68 and in complete games in '64 and '68.
Pitching in eight All-Star Games, he compiled a 2-0 record and a 0.50
ERA in 18 innings. From 1963-69, Marichal, with a 154-65 record and a .
703 winning percentage, won more games than any pitcher in baseball.
More than Koufax, more than Whitey Ford, more than Cardinals great Bob
Gibson. He also led baseball in complete games during the 1960s by a
wide margin. In his career, Marichal completed 244 of his 457 starts.
He ended his career, prematurely after a bad reaction to medication,
with a record of 243-142 with a 2.89 lifetime ERA and 3,507 innings
pitched. That's a lot of high-kick deliveries.
(www.baseballlibrary.com and www.sanfranciscogiants.mlb.com)
Patrick
Dave Kelly
"sacha" <p.sm...@sasktel.net> wrote in message
news:006a0bf7-6ab8-4313...@d25g2000prn.googlegroups.com...
> Any of you stats-types notice that the Rangers-Royals game Saturday
> night featured two complete games, and the total number of pitches,
> both teams, was less than the Yankee staff threw all by themselves
> that same day losing 22-4 to the Tribe.
> Patrick
Now that ya mention it...um ...no.
The old geezer
had some "chin music"!
But Noooooooooooooooooo....you can't do that any more....just let 'em
keep hitting HRs off of you!
Can you just imagine what Sal Maglie or Bob Gibson would have done!
TOG
ND: Genesee Bock Beer
NP: Dynamic Stillness - Steve Roach
The old geezer
> On 2009-04-21 07:11:22 +0900, The old geezer <J...@aol.com> said:
>
> > Can you just imagine what Sal Maglie or Bob Gibson would have done!
>
Bob Gibson once threw at a batter waiting in the On Deck Circle 'cuz
he was timing his pitches.
After his good friend, Bill White was traded to the Phillies from the
Carninals, the first time mr. White faced him, Mr. Gibson drilled him
in the back!
Now...that's Baseball! ;-)
TOG
Will in New Haven
Not the first time he faced him. He had _warned_ BW that he should not
try to pull his (Gibson's) outside pitch in the event that he was
traded and they faced each other. But White ignored the warning and
hit a double down the line. But Gibson was forebearance itself. He did
not hit his old friend on the first pitch of the next at bat. However,
White again leaned out over the plate and pulled a pitch foul by
inches. At which point, Gibson put him in the hospital.
At least that's the way Bill White told it.
--
Will in New Haven