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Subject: Jamie Moyer of...


Date: Sun Oct 2 12:56:12 2011
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Last night Halladay retired 21 in a row, apparently the most in a post-season game since Larsen in "the" game in '56. That's hard to imagine, but that's what ESPN said.

Date: Mon Oct 3 06:04:30 2011
User: .!.
Message:
You know,I hadnt noticed that. It was lost in all the damage Stute allowed in his 1/3 inning.

Date: Tue Apr 24 12:49:51 2012
User: TNmountainman
Message:
I assume most know, but juuust in case, Philip Humber threw another perfect game Saturday in Seattle. Also, since his name is in the title of this thread, I'll note that Jamie Moyer made history last week by becoming the oldest player to ever win a major league game, at 49 (+150 days). I had thought that honor was held by Satchel Paige, but he only *appeared* in a game in his 50's - didn't win it. Moyer breaks the record held for 80 years by the Brooklyn Dodgers' Jack Quinn, at a 'younger' 49. Niekro and Wilhelm each won games at age 48.

Date: Thu Apr 26 14:33:17 2012
User: SilvioManuel
Message:
Another 'hard luck' pitching story. I remember Matt Young pitching a complete game, allowing no hits, yet he didn't get credit for a no hitter. His team didn't score, he allowed an unearned run and since the game was on the road so he couldn't pitch the last half of the ninth inning. He only pitched eight innings so it didn't qualify as a no hitter. He also took thee loss.

Date: Thu Apr 26 15:17:20 2012
User: TNmountainman
Message:
To be precise, his team apparently did score 1 run, and the two runs charged against Young are 'earned' runs, because of the 7 walks and 6 stolen bases. Young's "feat" has only been accomplished 4 times in Major League history...

Link: no-hitter.........but not official.......

Date: Thu Apr 26 21:03:18 2012
User: SilvioManuel
Message:
Thanx for the fact checking. I was working from memory rather than research. Kind of dangerous sometimes.

Date: Fri Apr 27 02:24:24 2012
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Well, your memory was better than mine; I didn't even remember that game.... Reminded me a bit of Haddix's hard-luck game, discussed earlier (two years ago!) in this very thread.

Date: Thu Jun 14 10:41:48 2012
User: TNmountainman
Message:
These are becoming a veritable epidemic....

Link: rasing Cain - first one ever for the Giants

Date: Thu Jun 14 16:11:36 2012
User: joeygray
Message:
Back to Jamie Moyer, he's signed to a minor league contract with the Orioles now and came about a quarter inch from being recalled this week. By which I mean that Brian Matusz just missed breaking his nose fouling off a bunt attempt and if he'd had to go on the DL Moyer would have been recalled, because Britten was a week away from being ready off his DL stint. Oh well!

Date: Thu Aug 16 00:41:32 2012
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Yet *another* one.... 12 of the 23 perfect games in ML history in the last 25 years... This is the 3rd perfect game pitched against Tampa in the last 4 years... 6th no-no in the Majors this year - 2 shy of the record... Whiffed 5 of the last 6 batters...

Link: Felix Fernandez tosses a gem to get his turn

Date: Thu Aug 16 01:20:27 2012
User: mrbuck
Message:
I watched the last inning of that game. King Felix still had his "A" stuff, tossing 95mph fastballs that had great movement on them. Glad I was able to watch it. That's three perfect games this season, also a record. mrbuck

Date: Thu Aug 16 02:20:23 2012
User: SilvioManuel
Message:
I normally attend every Mariner weekday afternoon game in the sunny months but today I went to the dentist instead. Rats.

Date: Thu Aug 16 03:41:05 2012
User: mrbuck
Message:
That might be the saddest story I have heard in a long time. mrbuck

Date: Thu Aug 16 10:05:33 2012
User: TNmountainman
Message:
OH my. "Ouch" doesn't begin to do *that* justice. Heavy condolences...

Date: Sat Sep 22 13:25:13 2012
User: LumberJack
Message:
Sacre bleu! Check out Guy Boucher's first pitch at a Ray's game!

Link: Don't miss the catcher. LOL!

Date: Mon Apr 16 13:28:30 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:
After debating a long while about this, I'm gonna post this here. Maybe it should be in the "recent sports oddities" thread, or one of the other baseball-related threads, but since this is about a(n) (almost) no-hitter/perfect game, and this thread has had the highest concentration of those stories (by far), here it is. And it wouldn't even be worthy of mention - except that the dude is gonna be 45 years old next month - and thus *would have been* the oldest pitcher ever to throw a no-hitter. Except......... And to be clear.......this was against The World Series champs. And I'm gonna also include the write-up from SI, as it's well done: https://www.si.com/mlb/2018/04/16/bartolo-colon-rangers-astros-perfect-game-no-hitter

Link: Big Sexy gets it done

Date: Mon Apr 16 14:54:20 2018
User: Klepp
Message:
^Good post.

Date: Mon Apr 16 15:13:31 2018
User: Klepp
Message:
...same sentiment has me HEARTILY cheering on Jason Terry of the Bucks--sort of unreal that he helped lead Arizona to the National Championship in 1997, and still sinking shots in the NBA.

Date: Mon Apr 16 15:26:09 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Semi-related (in an old-man kind of way), the story of Andre Ingram is a nice one.

Link: Andre Ingram FINALLY gets his chance

Date: Mon Apr 16 16:26:09 2018
User: Snowguy
Message:
(Joins the applause)

Date: Sun Sep 12 04:49:23 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:
New record for no-hitters in MLB in a season: NINE. This one (mostly) Corbin Burnes of the Brew Crew. "This is the second no-hitter in Brewers franchise history, the first one coming in 1987 when Juan Nieves no-hit the Baltimore Orioles. The Indians have been no-hit a record three times this season with Indians' pitcher Zach Plesac starting all three games. Cleveland broke its own record of being no-hit twice in 1883, 1908 and 1951." [I put this in this thread because it's had the most no-hitter/perfect game commentary, and this seems noteworthy enough for this thread.]

Link: new record for no-nos in a season

Date: Sun Sep 12 05:57:41 2021
User: Klepp
Message:
This Brewers team is getting built to go deep in October...healthy, rotation to go deep into series if necessary, exceedingly reliable bullpen...hoping Adames returns to form...solid lineup with decent power...Narvayez Escobar Garcia solid run producers...Jace Peterson excellent ballplayer...

Date: Sun Sep 12 23:39:27 2021
User: Dr.Bombay
Message:
The Brewers are cursed by being the remnants of the Seattle Pilots - playing in Sick’s Seattle Stadium. Never has there been a worse Major League Stadium. What’s amazing is it still stands; and I drive by it a few times a year whenever I have a soccer ⚽️ game in South Seattle.

Date: Sun Sep 12 23:45:27 2021
User: Klepp
Message:
There's a very very little room still left on the bandwagon.

Date: Mon Sep 13 01:38:30 2021
User: Kumquat-of-Conciliation
Message:
Hmmm.... Not questioning your veracity, Dr. B, as you have eyes on the ground......but Wiki says a Lowe's is there now, as does this interesting recounting of the stadium.

Link: Sick's Stadium saga

Date: Mon Sep 13 23:10:35 2021
User: mrbuck
Message:
I have an autographed copy of Ball Four. Seems like Sicks Stadium gets mentioned by Bouton once or twice. .grin mrbuck

Date: Tue Sep 14 02:05:57 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Mostly referencing the first page of this thread....... Koufax, as we know, retired at age 30, just after winning his third Cy Young, in 1966. His strikeout total 'dropped' to 317 (from 382 the year before), but his ERA was a respectable (lol) 1.73 (5th year in a row leading the league). He won 27 games for a great Dodgers team. But............here's my point...........despite his legendary arm trouble and agonizing ice baths after each game................he also had 27 complete games. That's just about unfathomable, especially with the perspective of history, 55 years on. And............in keeping with my earlier-expressed "when men were men" ideology, he's still around at 85. No word on if he's planning a comeback, but knowing him, I think not. I don't know if he knew Bouton or not.......but seems very likely, as Koufax, Drysdale, et al crushed his Yankees 4-0 in the '63 Series - allowing said Yankees a *total* of 4 runs over the 4 games..

Date: Tue Sep 14 15:01:08 2021
User: Dr.Bombay
Message:
Yeah, the back side of the Lowe's on Rainier Ave. South retained a large hunk of the stadium wall so we can still see what I fine stadium it was. I don't think I ever saw a Pilots game there but did see a few minor league games there in the early 60's.

Date: Thu Sep 16 17:16:39 2021
User: Klepp
Message:
Apologize for being off topic, but I wanted to inform the SEATAC-area baseball fans (Dr.Bombay being one, I believe) the good news: The 2023 ASG to be held in Seattle! Congratulations!

Date: Thu Sep 23 15:46:48 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:
I know technically that this is the wrong thread for this, but since we were talking about Koufax and the old Yankees above............ In 1950, Yogi Berra had 597 AB. He struck out only 12 times. And that's with the higher mounds back then. Astonishing, especially in these swing-for-the-fences days. That same year............Bob Feller went 16-11 at age 18.

Date: Thu Sep 23 19:37:46 2021
User: Klepp
Message:
I certainly would have liked to have seen Feller pitch...I recall back in '95 buying a front row seat to see Mariner Randy Johnson fireball the pill in there, at the old County Stadium...I suspect their velocities were exceedingly comparable.

Date: Thu Sep 23 22:24:08 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:
I was fortunate to see The Big Unit bring the heat once in the Kingdome, but nowhere front row. Also saw Clemens pitch, but Feller was too early for me. And as I'm sure you know, the rudimentary velocity-measuring devices used to measure pitches back then were, well, rudimentary; but by some of those devices he was top dog. We'll never know for sure.........but what Ted Williams said carries some serious weight.....

Link: various measures of Feller's speed

Date: Thu Sep 30 22:50:25 2021
User: Kaos
Message:
I saw many games (too many to be honest) in the Kingdome. On a sunny summer day in Seattle, being inside to watch the Mariners sucked. Even in the heyday of the big unit. What’s really amazing, is that the M’s have now caught those east coast blue bloods the Red Sox to be in line for a wild card berth. I’m in shock. In the NL, we have the Dodgers sporting what has to be the best wild card record by a country mile and the equally blue blood 🩸 Cardinals jumping into the playoffs on the heals of an epic end of season winning streak. Who’s going to want to play either of these teams?

Date: Thu Sep 30 23:12:20 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:
The (Denny's?) D-backs would absolutely *love* to have that opportunity.

Date: Fri Oct 1 00:28:15 2021
User: Klepp
Message:
One can dream of a White Sox/Brewers World Series?


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