More amazing Greg Maddux stats:
1. He’s the only pitcher in baseball history with 300+ wins, 3000+ strikeouts, and less than 1000 walks.
2. In 1994 Maddux started 25 games and had 24 quality starts.
3. In 1994 his .222 batting average on the road was higher than his 1.56 ERA.
4. That year he only allowed 4 home runs in 202 innings pitched, and only walked 31 batters. .
5. In June & July 1995 Maddux had a string of 51 innings pitched without issuing a walk.
6. From 1997 to 2003 Maddux faced 8026 batters and only
7. He won at least 15 games for a record 17 straight seasons.
8. Maddux once pitched a complete game while throwing only 78 pitches. Only 15 were called balls. The average at bat lasted 2.52 pitches.
9. He won 18 gold gloves, a record for any position.
10. In 1997 Maddux issued 14 unintentional walks while facing 893 hitters.
11. From 1995-2003 Maddux faced 8026 batters and had only 8006 pitches called balls.
12. Maddux set the record for most consecutive seasons of stealing at least one base without getting caught, with ten.
13. He is the oldest pitcher to steal a base.
14. He has the most sacrifice bunts for and righthanded pitcher in history, the second most for any pitcher in history.
For all the social media yahoos who still say “duh, but he never struck out Tony Gwynn”, here’s Maddux’s record against the Padres: 25-16 with a 3.06 ERA, nine complete games, and two shutouts. Thinking about changing this blog to all-Maddux, all the time.
Notable pitchers who hit walkoff home runs:
Pitcher Date Off Career HR WAR
DIZZY DEAN..........06-Aug-1935...Emmett Nelson............8...46.2
Jim Hardin.......... 10-May-1969...Moe Drabowsky...........3.... 4.7
Kirby Higbe............11-Sep-1947...Johnny Sain.................3...17.7
Glen Hobbie......... 25-Aug-1960...Vinegar Bend Mizell.....4.... 5.9
Craig Lefferts........25-Apr-1986....Greg Minton.................1.... 8.9
JUAN MARICHAL.21-Sep-1966....Roy Face.....................4...62.9
Lindy McDaniel......06-Jun-1963....Billy Pierce..................3....28.2
Dizzy Trout............24-May-1947...Gordon Maltzberger..20....49.9
George Uhle..........25-May-1926...Win Ballou.................. 9....55.5
Yesterday after the service at JFBC Ceil spotted Grover & Bettye Swilley sitting up hear the front. We made a beeline up to see them. Heather had sung in the service, sporting a new hip hairstyle. The Swilleys were with their son in law Lee Taylor. We got to have a nice chat with the Swilleys. Heather said she’s seen Audra and Mandy Mullen attending JFBC services.
My other friend Reid and his wife Noelle just returned from Spain and Paris on Saturday. Reid has a hurt shoulder, and lugging luggage all around Europe didn’t help. He’s got to have surgery. Didn’t see him at the gym this morning.
Missing a “Guy’s Night” men’s dinner at JFBC. Clay is speaking on politics. Hate to miss it.
Same old Falcons.
Teens and screens – a parent’s guide to wise tech stewardship – and why it’s needed.
Steve Martin names his all time favorite movie role – playing the lead character Charlie Bates in Roxanne. Good stuff.
A polar vortex is causing the earth’s poles to shift – and disrupting our planet’s climate. Nothing man-made about this. Nothing that trillions in US taxpayer taxes for any green new deal can fix. Not sure how all this fits into God’s plan, but he didn’t ask me.
A Putin ally in the Russian government predicts the US will collapse in an imminent civil war.
Win a Ford F150.
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