Kyle Schwarber is a legend in the Paul Bunyan sort of way. I was thinking about his Hall of Fame chances recently and my gut says that of course he's a future Hall of Famer. He's in his 12th season and has nearly 400 home runs and everyone seems to love him.
And then I was looking at another player, who never comes up in my mind as a Hall of Famer. He's only in his 11th season, one fewer than Schwarber, but has almost 10 WAR more and is posting more this year, too. That player is Dansby Swanson. Swanson gets a lot of value out of being a great SS and Schwarber is a DH now.
Maybe I'm wrong on Schwarber and he's not really a future HOFer, but he feels that way in a way that Swanson doesn't, but maybe should? I guess my point is that Swanson's probably a lot better than anyone really notices.
Let's not forget the Pirates v. Angels series this weekend. The Pirates only scored 1 run in each of the 3 games (1-0, 1-6, 1-0) taking 2 out 3... and capped it off by light hitting catcher Henry Davis going deep in the 3rd game for the only score in the 1-0 finale and getting Skenes the W!.
This is one of my pet peeves (well, kind of). Joe mentions Luzardo had the (tied) 2nd highest game score this year to Mizorowski, but DOESN'T TELL ME WHAT MIZ' GAME SCORE WAS. I calculated it at 100, but I could certainly have screwed it up.
I went to Kansas State in the 70s when Jack Hartman was the coach. Never saw a 1-0 game, but sure saw the Cats win plenty of games scoring 40 or 50 points...
I bought my father a subscription a year ago and he absolutely loves it. When reading today's post about 1-0 games, I wondered how long it would take my father to email me or call me and mention Harvey Haddix 12 innings of a perfect game only to lose it in the 13th. Growing up I might have heard that story at least 100 times. Well I have my answer; 62 minutes after the email was sent, he forwarded me the story and mentioned Harvey Haddix....
Congratulations Joe! After all the prior Blogs and posts, recall signing up for that 1st Day. Knowing the content would work, yet wondering if the online world would, “hear the tree fall in the forest?” And through no small work on your part, they have! Congratulations!
By the time that Lou Gehrig retired in 1939, only 4 Yankees had ever homered in a 1-0 win. Two of them were pitchers. Joe mentioned Red Ruffing in 1932: and then there was future-MVP Spud Chandler on May 21, 1938. In between was Frankie Crosetti on April 24, 1934.
But the first Yankee was Jimmy Walsh on April 29, 1914. Walsh finished his Yankee career with one home run, which is 658 fewer than Babe Ruth.
There have been five such games in the World Series: Casey Stengel in 1923, Tommy Henrich with a walk-off on the day that Bill James was born in 1949, Paul Blair and Frank Robinson on consecutive days to end the 1966 season, and David Justice in 1995.
And last Friday, the second batter in the Red Sox-Orioles game, Mickey Gasper, hit a solo home run, and that was all, 1-0 final score. Just nine tense innings of baseball.
There was also the August 27 game where Drake Baldwin led off the Braves against Yamamoto with a home run. Not only did they score no further runs, Sale pitched a complete game shutout in the 1-0 game.
I’ve been to over 200 Major League games in possession and only one of them ended 1-0, and what do you know the only run scored on a home run. It was a game between the Yankees and Rangers with Carlos Rodon and Nathan Eovaldi pitching. and who ended up hitting the home run to decide the game? The immortal Jorbit Vivas.
Kyle Schwarber is a legend in the Paul Bunyan sort of way. I was thinking about his Hall of Fame chances recently and my gut says that of course he's a future Hall of Famer. He's in his 12th season and has nearly 400 home runs and everyone seems to love him.
And then I was looking at another player, who never comes up in my mind as a Hall of Famer. He's only in his 11th season, one fewer than Schwarber, but has almost 10 WAR more and is posting more this year, too. That player is Dansby Swanson. Swanson gets a lot of value out of being a great SS and Schwarber is a DH now.
Maybe I'm wrong on Schwarber and he's not really a future HOFer, but he feels that way in a way that Swanson doesn't, but maybe should? I guess my point is that Swanson's probably a lot better than anyone really notices.
Let's not forget the Pirates v. Angels series this weekend. The Pirates only scored 1 run in each of the 3 games (1-0, 1-6, 1-0) taking 2 out 3... and capped it off by light hitting catcher Henry Davis going deep in the 3rd game for the only score in the 1-0 finale and getting Skenes the W!.
This is one of my pet peeves (well, kind of). Joe mentions Luzardo had the (tied) 2nd highest game score this year to Mizorowski, but DOESN'T TELL ME WHAT MIZ' GAME SCORE WAS. I calculated it at 100, but I could certainly have screwed it up.
Now I'm wondering about "minimal scoring" games in other sports.
They just will not happen in basketball.
Hockey is naturally low-scoring, so they won't be that big a deal.
A one-touchdown or one-field goal game in football is likely to be a boring slog with a lot of punting.
I went to Kansas State in the 70s when Jack Hartman was the coach. Never saw a 1-0 game, but sure saw the Cats win plenty of games scoring 40 or 50 points...
No mention of Jack Morris in Game 7? That game probably got him into the Hall.
I bought my father a subscription a year ago and he absolutely loves it. When reading today's post about 1-0 games, I wondered how long it would take my father to email me or call me and mention Harvey Haddix 12 innings of a perfect game only to lose it in the 13th. Growing up I might have heard that story at least 100 times. Well I have my answer; 62 minutes after the email was sent, he forwarded me the story and mentioned Harvey Haddix....
Congratulations Joe! After all the prior Blogs and posts, recall signing up for that 1st Day. Knowing the content would work, yet wondering if the online world would, “hear the tree fall in the forest?” And through no small work on your part, they have! Congratulations!
Can’t find enjoyment in Philadelphia Ws.
Congrats on five years and about five billion words. It’s been a ray of sunshine in what can sometimes seem like a gloomy world.
By the time that Lou Gehrig retired in 1939, only 4 Yankees had ever homered in a 1-0 win. Two of them were pitchers. Joe mentioned Red Ruffing in 1932: and then there was future-MVP Spud Chandler on May 21, 1938. In between was Frankie Crosetti on April 24, 1934.
But the first Yankee was Jimmy Walsh on April 29, 1914. Walsh finished his Yankee career with one home run, which is 658 fewer than Babe Ruth.
There have been five such games in the World Series: Casey Stengel in 1923, Tommy Henrich with a walk-off on the day that Bill James was born in 1949, Paul Blair and Frank Robinson on consecutive days to end the 1966 season, and David Justice in 1995.
And last Friday, the second batter in the Red Sox-Orioles game, Mickey Gasper, hit a solo home run, and that was all, 1-0 final score. Just nine tense innings of baseball.
Ruth didn't play many 1-0 games because Gehrig was in the lineup, and vice versa. :D
There was also the August 27 game where Drake Baldwin led off the Braves against Yamamoto with a home run. Not only did they score no further runs, Sale pitched a complete game shutout in the 1-0 game.
Then, of course, you had the DBacks and the Royals go scoreless through nine innings, only to have the game finish 5-4 in 10 innings.
I’ve been to over 200 Major League games in possession and only one of them ended 1-0, and what do you know the only run scored on a home run. It was a game between the Yankees and Rangers with Carlos Rodon and Nathan Eovaldi pitching. and who ended up hitting the home run to decide the game? The immortal Jorbit Vivas.