Jerry Remy's Cancer Has Returned

Al Zarilla

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I may have heard that part wrong. (But it was part of the same conversation.) Catfish was mentioned because he wasn't afraid to give up bombs. Remy even hit one off him. Eck remembered a particular HR (I thought they were still talking Catfish) might have been one Remy hit in '78 off Fergie Jenkins, because they were soon talking about how Oakland pitchers were notorious for loading the ball.
Matt Keough and Steve McCatty were the Oakland pitchers they agreed were loading up. And, the whole staff's arms all soon fell off (Billy Martin). I missed the game today. When are Remy and Eck doing a game together again?
 

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Matt Keough and Steve McCatty were the Oakland pitchers they agreed were loading up. And, the whole staff's arms all soon fell off (Billy Martin). I missed the game today. When are Remy and Eck doing a game together again?
At the end of today's game it sounded like they'll be working together the last week of the season.

Edit to add: the studio 54 talk is even funnier now hearing it again.
 
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Matt Keough and Steve McCatty were the Oakland pitchers they agreed were loading up. And, the whole staff's arms all soon fell off (Billy Martin). I missed the game today. When are Remy and Eck doing a game together again?
John Henry Johnson and Mike Norris rounded out the starting four. And then all the starters within the next couple of years had their arms figuratively fall off. 1979 or 1980 if I remember. I think They threw 106 complete games or some such number. I remember I loved that starting staff. They were good pitchers, too. But Christ, Billy Martin ruined them. Just ended their careers. Yet another reason to loathe that SOB Billy Martin. What a despicable man.
 

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Did Remy hurt his knee that day, at home plate? I have recollections of Jim Rice carrying him off the field.
He only played 7 more games that year...5 weeks off, 2 games in August, then a month off and 5 games in September. Very likely, although I don't remember him slowing down that much until the Ralph Houk era (1981 onward)
 

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Did Remy hurt his knee that day, at home plate? I have recollections of Jim Rice carrying him off the field.
You have a good memory ..

http://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/american-professional-baseball-player-jim-rice-left-fielder-news-photo/56688642#american-professional-baseball-player-jim-rice-left-fielder-for-the-picture-id56688642

The odd thing is that neither Eckersley nor Remy remembered that incident - or, at least weren't associating it with that game.

Maybe Remy completely blotted it out of his memory. Career threatening injuries can do that.

Edit: Since the injury happened in the first inning Remy probably had no knowledge of the rest of the game's details - specifically the 5 bombs.
 
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I thought Remy first hurt his knee -- the knee that finally made him quit after '84 -- in his 1 inning in right field in 1980. Not sure where I heard that, and can't find any reference to it, so grains of salt.
 

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For the record, from bbref, Remy rightly notes he hit but 7 HRs for his career, none in his last 2300 or so ABs after he hit one off Keough Sunday afternoon August 20 1978 in Oakland to back Eck in his CG victory stretching our lead to 8.5 over the Yanks.

5 of Remy's other 6 HRs came off 20 game winners: Jim Perry, Fergie Jenkins, Mike Norris, Catfish Hunter and Jack Morris.

Here is a little bit about Remy's injury in the July 1, 1979 Sunday afternoon game, after the night out at Studio 54.

http://www.masslive.com/sports/2008/09/red_sox_broadcaster_jerry_remy.html

Narron hit the 5th bomb off Eck ,the game winner, in the 7th.

This game came on the heels of the Saturday afternoon tilt which the Sox won when Yaz hit a 9th inning bomb off Tiant to bail out Remy who made an 8th inning error to allow the tying run to score.

That 79 team gets forgotten -- playing .625 ball into mid August but couldn't close ground on the Os, who were still winning 2/3 as late as mid September. The Bob Watson year, with Rice and Lynn at the peak of their combined powers; they went 91-69 in the end, before the winter of 1980-85 set in.