Best Ever Post-Season Relief Effort?
Posted by Steve Lombardi on September 4, 2008
Here's a fun little list that I worked up with Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Post-Season Pitching Game Finder. It's great relief work in post-season games where the player's team won the game:
Cnt Player Date Series G Tm Opp GmReslt App,Dec **IP** H R ER BB SO HR Pit Str GmSc IR IS BF AB 2B 3B IBB HBP SH SF GDP SB CS Pk BK WP ERA +----+-----------------+-------------+------+-+---+----+-------+---------+--------+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+--+--+--+--+--+------+ 1 Moe Drabowsky 1966-10-05 WS 1 BAL @LAD W 5-2 3-9f ,W 6.2 1 0 0 2 11 0 3 1 23 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2 Bruce Kison 1971-10-13 WS 4 PIT BAL W 4-3 1-7 ,W 6.1 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 22 19 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3 Pedro Martinez 1999-10-11 ALDS 5 BOS @CLE W 12-8 4-9f ,W 6 0 0 0 3 8 0 97 57 0 0 21 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 4 Paul Splittorff 1976-10-10 ALCS 2 KCR NYY W 7-3 3-8 ,W 5.2 4 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 23 21 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5 Larry Sherry 1959-10-08 WS 6 LAD @CHW W 9-3 4-9f ,W 5.2 4 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 22 21 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 6 Warren Spahn 1948-10-10 WS 5 BSN @CLE W 11-5 4-9f ,W 5.2 1 0 0 1 7 0 0 0 19 18 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 7 Andy Hawkins 1984-10-10 WS 2 SDP DET W 5-3 1-6 ,W 5.1 1 0 0 0 3 0 54 39 2 0 16 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 8 Mike Torrez 1977-10-09 ALCS 5 NYY @KCR W 5-3 3-8 5.1 3 0 0 3 4 0 76 43 1 0 20 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0.00 9 Sparky Lyle 1977-10-08 ALCS 4 NYY @KCR W 6-4 4-9f ,W 5.1 2 0 0 0 1 0 54 40 2 0 17 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 10 Rube Walberg 1929-10-14 WS 5 PHA CHC W 3-2 4-9f ,W 5.1 2 0 0 0 6 0 2 0 18 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 11 Joe Price 1987-10-11 NLCS 5 SFG STL W 6-3 5-9f ,W 5 1 0 0 1 6 0 59 43 0 0 17 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 12 Roger McDowell 1986-10-15 NLCS 6 NYM @HOU W 7-6 9-13 5 1 0 0 0 2 0 53 38 0 0 15 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.00 13 Joe Page 1947-10-06 WS 7 NYY BRO W 5-2 5-9f ,W 5 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 15 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
As much as Torrez takes heat for Bucky Dent in 1978 and Pedro takes some for Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS, you have to respect their games here - considering how important those games were in those series.
September 4th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Pedro's six innings in 1999 were special.
He was as nasty as it gets from '97 to '03, like a painter, 70-95 mph, excellent control, and a foot of break in whatever direction he wanted except up.