FROM THE DUGOUT STEPS

[Old School]

David Schoenfield
ESPN Senior Writer

Jacob deGrom threw a bullpen session on Monday at Citi Field without any issues. He'll throw another one on Wednesday and if all goes well he'll come off the injured list and start on Friday against the Brewers.

 

[Old School]

one of the best bar room trivia questions ever...

the best of the best baseball fans struggle with this one even giving them the teams he pitched on.


1952 Giant reliever Hoyt Wilhelm homers in his first major league at-bat, a fourth-inning blast off Dick Hoover in the team's 9-5 victory over Boston at the Polo Grounds. During the next 21 years, covering 1070 games and 432 official at-bats, the knuckle-balling future Hall of Fame hurler will never homer again.

 

[Old School]

1962
Dodger southpaw Sandy Koufax ties his major league record, a mark he shares with Bob Feller when he strikes out 18 batters in a nine-inning contest during the team's 10-2 rout of the Cubs at Wrigley Field. In 1938, nineteen year-old right-hander Bob Feller established the record, whiffing 18 batters in the Indians' 4-1 loss to the Tigers at Cleveland Stadium.


Kerry Wood tied Roger Clemens' major league record of 20 strikeouts in a nine-inning game on May 6, 1998.

and Wood still never lived up to all the hype..

 

[Old School]

Eddie Matz
ESPN Senior Writer

The three fastest pitchers to 2,500 strikeouts (by innings) all played for the Nats/Expos franchise at one time:

1. Randy Johnson
2. Pedro Martinez
3. Max Scherzer (reached 2,500 tonight vs. Padres)

 

[DZ]

Eddie Matz
ESPN Senior Writer

The three fastest pitchers to 2,500 strikeouts (by innings) all played for the Nats/Expos franchise at one time:

1. Randy Johnson
2. Pedro Martinez
3. Max Scherzer (reached 2,500 tonight vs. Padres)

Who would have thought? I had completely forgotten that Johnson started his career there. Had to look back, je just started 4 games there... 25 Ks in 26 IP.

Would be a great trivia question for Jeopardy James.

 

[Wineguy]

Wow, last two posts are good stuff old school! Thanks for posting. Is there no way you can make it to the golf outing in June, even if you don't golf? You could give us a casting and fishing exhibition we could all learn from. :0008

 

[Old School]

Wow, last two posts are good stuff old school! Thanks for posting. Is there no way you can make it to the golf outing in June, even if you don't golf? You could give us a casting and fishing exhibition we could all learn from. :0008

wish I could but can't make it.

I look forward to the stories and the pictures..
and the videos and/commentary from the Director of Swinging and Divots, Sportsaholic...:0074:11jackson

 

[DZ]

A nugget of info I'll toss in here...

Last night was first time that the SF Giants have scored a run in the first inning this season. They were the only team left not to do so by a wide margin.

 

[Old School]

A nugget of info I'll toss in here...

Last night was first time that the SF Giants have scored a run in the first inning this season. They were the only team left not to do so by a wide margin.

25 games without :scared

now I got to know what the record is to start the season

 

[Old School]

25 games without :scared

now I got to know what the record is to start the season

https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/g...record-finally-break-through-run-first-inning


The Giants had gone 25 consecutive games to start the season without scoring their first time up, a National League record. They came three games shy of tying the MLB record set by the 1948 White Sox. The lineup entered the night with just seven hits in 79 first-inning at-bats and the team had been outscored 18-0 in the first after Madison Bumgarner gave up a pair earlier Friday night.

 

[Old School]

1963

Red Sox right-hander Gene Conley and White Sox hurler Dave DeBusschere, who both played in the NBA in the offseason, each pitch in relief during the fourth inning of the Red Sox?s 9-5 victory over the White Sox at Fenway Park. Conley, now with the Knicks as a power guard, is the only person to have played on World Championship teams in baseball (1957 Braves) and basketball (1959?61, Celtics), and DeBusschere, currently employed by the Pistons, will be inducted as player into the basketball Hall of Fame in 1983.

2 SPORTS at the HIGHEST LEVEL........COOL

 

[Old School]

5/2/1968
Mets hitter Bud Harrelson becomes the first batter in baseball history to gain a 3-0 ball-strike count advantage from the on-deck circle when umpire Ed Vargo penalizes Phillies reliever John Boozer for going to his mouth inside the 18-foot circle of the mound. Philadelphia manager Gene Mauch, incensed about the ball one call, orders his pitcher to do it again for ball two, and then again for ball three, which promptly gets his right-hander and himself thrown out of the game, a 3-0 loss to New York at Shea Stadium.

 

[Old School]

Byron Kerr
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@masnKerr
Hudson strikes out so that?s 1500 strikeouts for Strasburg in 1272.1 IP fastest to Milestone in MLB history (Sale 1290.0 IP) #Nats

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WASHINGTON -- Stephen Strasburg reached 1,500 strikeouts in fewer innings than any pitcher in major league history, and the Washington Nationals beat the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1 after a long rain delay Thursday to salvage the finale of a four-game series.

 

[Old School]

Alden Gonzalez
ESPN Staff Writer

Cody Bellinger has been named the National League Player of the Month. All he did was lead the league inbatting average, on-base percentage, slugging, home runs and RBIs. He finished each of the last two seasons with 4.2 Baseball-Reference WAR. After one month this year, it's 3.7.

 

[Old School]

May 4,1944
For the first time in the city's history, blacks are allowed to buy grandstand seats in St. Louis. The Browns and Cardinals are the last major league teams to integrate seating for fans, having restricted the minority to the bleachers in previous years.

 

[Orlando Dios]

A nugget of info I'll toss in here...

Last night was first time that the SF Giants have scored a run in the first inning this season. They were the only team left not to do so by a wide margin.

That's some good coins made there.

 

[Old School]

5/7/1917

Red Sox left-hander Babe Ruth outduels Walter Johnson in the team's 1-0 victory over the Senators at Griffith Stadium. The game's lone run scores on an eighth-inning sacrifice fly hit by the Boston southpaw, who will turn out to be a fairly good hitter.

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5/7/1959
At the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Yankees defeat the Dodgers, 6-2, in an exhibition game played to benefit Roy Campanella, who was paralyzed in an auto accident prior to the team moving to the West Coast in 1958. The game, which draws the largest crowd ever for a baseball game, 93,103 fans with another estimated 15,000 turned away from the sellout, begins with an emotional ceremony in which Pee Wee Reese pushes the wheelchair-bound catcher into the darkened stadium that is totally illuminated by fans holding candles or matches.

 

[Old School]

5/8/1961
The New York Metropolitan Baseball Club, Inc. announces the New York National League franchise's team nickname will be the Mets. Other names considered included the Avengers, Burros (a play on the word boroughs), Continentals, Islanders, Jets, Rebels, Skyliners, and the Meadowlarks, which was the first choice of owner Joan Payson.

 

[Old School]

5/8/1971
Willie Mays (634) and Hank Aaron (604) both hit round-trippers in the Braves' 5-2 victory over the Giants at Candlestick Park. It is the first time in baseball history two players with 600 career homers go deep in the same game.

 

[Old School]

5/11/1950
After fans boo him for misplaying a ball, Ted Williams makes an inappropriate gesture three times (once to left, once to center, and once to right) to the Red Sox fans sitting in the outfield stands. During his next at bat, as the booing continues, the Splendid Splinter becomes the Splendid Spitter as Williams steps out of the box to spit at fans to show his displeasure.