Fewest Hits Allowed in 15+ Innings
Posted by Raphy on August 8, 2009
Here's a quick hit from yesterday's Red Sox-Yankees game.
Fewest Hits Allowed in a Game with At Least 15 Innings Pitched (since 1954)
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 2003-07-25 ARI LAD W 2-1 15 3 1 1 3 11 1 183 120 0 0 51 46 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 6 0.60 2 1963-04-13 LAA CHW W 1-0 15 3 0 0 6 3 0 0 0 51 44 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 0.00 3 2009-08-07 NYY BOS W 2-0 15 4 0 0 8 14 0 227 133 1 0 55 46 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 6 0.00 4 2004-06-08 MIL ANA W 1-0 17 4 0 0 2 7 0 209 132 1 0 59 55 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 6 0.00 5 1993-08-10 FLA CHC W 3-2 15 4 2 2 3 10 1 180 113 4 0 51 46 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 6 1.20 6 1993-04-14 STL LAD W 2-1 15 4 1 1 6 7 0 208 127 1 0 53 46 1 0 2 0 1 0 2 1 0 2 6 0.60 7 1975-05-14 TEX MIL L 2-3 15 4 3 2 9 11 0 4 0 56 44 0 0 1 1 2 0 2 0 1 0 4 1.20 8 1968-05-17 ATL NYM W 3-1 16 4 1 1 5 9 1 0 0 55 48 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 2 0.56
August 9th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
you've gotta feel bad for Texas in entry number 7. 15 innings, 4 hits, and they still manage to lose somehow.
August 9th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Overlooked in the righteous commentary on the sterling pitching performances in the Bosox-Yanks Augusut 7 game was a pair of ironman stints by catchers Jason Varitek (14+ innings caught) and Jorge Posada (14), neither of whom is a kid.
Not the first marathon my a long shot (Date Innings Score *
8/29/1967 (Game 2) 20 NYY 4, BOS 3
9/5/1927 (Game 2) 18 BOS 12, NYY 11
4/16/1967 18 NYY 7, BOS 6
8/2/1978 17 BOS 7, NYY 5
9/29/1923 (Game 2) 16 BOS 3, NYY2
9/9/1962 16 BOS 5, NYY 4
6/4/1966 (Game 2) 16 BOS 6, NYY 3
4/19/1930 (Game 1) 15 BOS 4, NYY 3
4/18/1931 15 BOS 5, NYY 4
7/23/1932 (Game 1) 15 NYY 4, BOS 3
5/30/1951 15 BOS 1, NYY 10
6/1/1997 15 NYY 11, BOS 6
8/7/2009 15 NYY 2, BOS 0)
but thirteen all told, including two in 1967. The two beauties in 1967 also featured ironman jobs by the Yankees' Jake Gibbs in April (caught 18 innings, then singled stole second and scored the winning run in a Pepitone single and Bosox' Russ Gibson (caught all 18), as well as 38-year old Elston Howard (traded to Boston August 3), who caught the first game of the August 29th doubleheader (see Wikipedia for what a doubleheader is) and then came into the second game in the ninth inning, catching a total of 20+ innings for the day. 40,000 + attendance for the ninth-place CBS Yankees.
Con}incidences: Jim Lonberg ND in April game, won game 1 of the August doubleheader. Bob Tillman (purchased by Yankees from Boston on August 8) caught all 20 innings of game two for the Yankees. Game 2 was also Jim BallFour's only win on the year