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Most Starts First Two Games

Posted by Raphy on April 7, 2009

I was very surprised to see Andy's post today that only 1 pitcher won his team's first 2 games of the season.  This surprised  me because there have been 2 pitchers who have actually started their team's first 2 games of the season. I figured that some relievers would have managed to pull off 2 wins. Anyway here are the 2 pitchers.  I assume that the weather was main the factor that enabled theses events.

                   Year Games Link to Individual Games
+-----------------+----+-----+-------------------------+
 Wilbur Wood       1973     2 Ind. Games
 Sam McDowell      1966     2 Ind. Games

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One Response to “Most Starts First Two Games”

  1. adarowski Says:
    April 7th, 2009 at 12:37 pm

    Just for others curious...

    Wood's starts came on April 7th and April 11th. McDowell's on April 11th and 15th. So, not like there was any short rest magic here, so gotta be weather...

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