2019 MLB Regular Season running thread

This Date In MLB History - July 2nd





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July 2, 1963 - In one of baseball's most memorable pitching duels, San Francisco Giants' Juan Marichal hurls 16 scoreless innings and his counterpart the Milwaukee Braves' Warren Spahn pitches 15 1/3 scoreless innings before Willie Mays ends the marathon with a walk-off homer off Spahnie in the bottom of the 16th giving San Francisco the win.

Marichal's manager, Alvin Dark, visited the mound in the 9th, 10th, 11th, 13th, and 14th innings, and was talked out of removing Marichal each time. During the 14th-inning visit, Marichal told Dark, "Do you see that man pitching for the other side? Do you know that man is 42 years old? I'm only 25. If that man is on the mound, nobody is going to take me out of here." Marichal ended up throwing 227 pitches in the complete game 1-0 win, while Spahn threw 201 in the loss, allowing nine hits and one walk. Hall of Famer Carl Hubbell, who was in attendance that night, said of Spahn, "He ought to will his body to medical science."

When Marichal and Spahn Dueled for a Game and a Half

Jim Kaplan: Nearly half century later, Spahn-Marichal duel still the best ever

July 2, 1963: Marichal outduels Spahn in 16-inning thriller | Society for American Baseball Research

Retrosheet Boxscore: San Francisco Giants 1, Milwaukee Braves 0

 

There are not enough ambulances in San Francisco to take care of all the analytics wonks that would have fainted seeing the starters go that deep into the game.

 

No doubt.

 

Goodness graciouis!

John Sterling's streak of calling Yankees games to end

 

Yeah but surely that had a last effect on the rest of Spahn's season!

July 2: 15.1 innings.
July 7: 9
July 25: 8
July 29: 9
Aug. 13: 9
Aug: 18: 9
Aug. 23: 9
Aug. 27: 9
Aug. 31: 9
Sep. 4: 9
Sep 8: 9
Sep 13: 1.1 (???)
Sep 17: 3.0
Sep 21: 9
Sep. 25: 9
Sep 29: 9

 

Dodgers win in a walk, walk, walk, walk, walk off


And there were two outs at the time.

 

It pisses me off (as a Giants fan and all around So Cal hater) just how F'ing good the Dodgers are. Of fucking course they draw five-consecutive walks to win a game. Man I really hope the AL has its act together for a third straight year to deny them a World Series cuz damn they are good.

 

As a Dodgers fan, I expect them to get back to the Series before poor managing by Dave Roberts leads to another loss.

 

Michael Kay to the DL too

https://nypost.com/2019/07/03/micha...d-surgery-will-miss-a-month-of-yankees-games/

 

Sorry, Moddy and sj.com/natsnation.

 

Disgraceful.