Brewers 6, Royals 5 (10). Milwaukee started Don Sutton, who was 39 years old but still had it. KC responded with Bud Black, who was about to turn 27 and just starting to put it together.
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Saturday, May 3, 2014
Game of the Day (5/2/14)
Rays 10, Yankees 5 (14). David Price (who entered with 9 career complete games, not to mention 74 wins and a Cy Young) opened on the mound for Tampa; New York sent Vidal Nuno (making his sixth career start) to oppose him. That matchup seems... less than equitable.
Game of the Day (5/2/84)
Indians 9, Orioles 7 (16). Tough to go wrong with a score like that. We've seen both starters already this season, with Baltimore sending Scott McGregor (who would be an Oriole for his entire career) and Cleveland answering with Rick Sutcliffe (who would be an Indian for another month and change).
Friday, May 2, 2014
Game of the Day (5/1/14)
Yesterday's three best games were all in the 90th percentile or higher on the season so far. They were also all second halves of doubleheaders. Thanks, rain!
The best of the bunch was Dodgers 4, Twins 3 (12), which saw Red Patterson make his big league debut and Kris Johnson his first appearance for Minnesota. This may be related to the aforementioned fact that it was the second game of a doubleheader.
The best of the bunch was Dodgers 4, Twins 3 (12), which saw Red Patterson make his big league debut and Kris Johnson his first appearance for Minnesota. This may be related to the aforementioned fact that it was the second game of a doubleheader.
Game of the Day (5/1/84)
Dodgers 3, Giants 2 (11).
This one veered into oddity before the game even began. The Dodgers started Burt Hooton against San Francisco's Randy Lerch; that's not the odd part, because both of them spent most of their careers as starters. However, they spent very little of 1984 as starters - Hooton made only 6 starts that season (against 48 relief appearances), while Lerch started a mere 4 games (and relieved 33 times). Based on those numbers alone, the odds that a game in which both Hooton and Lerch appeared in 1984 would be started by both of them are 4/333, which produces the rather satisfying decimal form of .012012 (repeating those three digits infinitely, as do all fractions of 333).
Math aside, you don't often see both teams turn to emergency pitchers at the same time. It's as if the Dodgers and Giants forgot they had a game scheduled and their entire starting rotations were out golfing.
This one veered into oddity before the game even began. The Dodgers started Burt Hooton against San Francisco's Randy Lerch; that's not the odd part, because both of them spent most of their careers as starters. However, they spent very little of 1984 as starters - Hooton made only 6 starts that season (against 48 relief appearances), while Lerch started a mere 4 games (and relieved 33 times). Based on those numbers alone, the odds that a game in which both Hooton and Lerch appeared in 1984 would be started by both of them are 4/333, which produces the rather satisfying decimal form of .012012 (repeating those three digits infinitely, as do all fractions of 333).
Math aside, you don't often see both teams turn to emergency pitchers at the same time. It's as if the Dodgers and Giants forgot they had a game scheduled and their entire starting rotations were out golfing.
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Game of the Day (4/30/14)
Royals 4, Blue Jays 2. The month closes out with a matchup of two young pitchers, one of whom pitched in the majors last year but still qualifies as a rookie (KC's Yordano Ventura), and the other one of whom did not make a big-league appearance last year, yet does not retain rookie eligibility (Toronto's Drew Hutchison).
Game of the Day (4/30/84)
Well, the run of classics had to end some time; might as well be on a day when there were only six games played. That leaves us with Cardinals 5, Pirates 3, with St. Louis stalwart Bob Forsch facing future St. Louis ace John Tudor. Incidentally, this ties Tudor for the early-season lead in most Games of Days started (3, neck-and-neck with the immortal Bill Laskey).
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