Lou Reed Specials: Wild Wins
Posted by Steve Lombardi on August 7, 2009
File this one under: How'd they do that?
Via Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Pitching Game Finder, since 1954, games of 9 innings or less, where the winning team walked 14 or more of the other team's batters in the contest:
Cnt Date Tm Opp GmReslt IP H R ER BB SO HR Pit Str IR IS BF AB 2B 3B IBB HBP SH SF GDP SB CS Pk Ptchrs ERA +----+-------------+---+----+-------+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+--+--+--+------+------+ 1 1992-05-07 CHW BOS W 7-6 9 6 6 4 15 9 0 206 105 4 1 47 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 5 4.00 2 1968-04-30 BAL NYY W 6-5 9 5 5 4 14 10 0 8 0 45 30 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 4 4.00 3 1959-07-31 BOS DET W 6-5 9 5 5 5 15 4 3 7 0 47 29 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 5 5.00 4 1958-05-11 STL CHC W 8-7 9 7 7 7 14 4 0 5 2 47 31 4 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 6 7.00
August 7th, 2009 at 9:02 am
I thought Matt Young would be involved, but not as the opposing pitcher.