PC Drunken Friar said:I think that pitch from Lowe to Long may have been the best pitch I've ever seen.
I was at Game 1 of that series. What a turnaround. Of course, Grady left Pedro in a bit too long in Game 5, too...
PC Drunken Friar said:I think that pitch from Lowe to Long may have been the best pitch I've ever seen.
I've watched this pitch 12 times... It's still the beat2AlNipper49 said:Greatest pitch ever
glasspusher said:Why do I think there was a game Stanley came into in the 2nd inning in the early 80s and proceeded to pitch 10 innings of scoreless relief to win it in the 11th?
Edit: I think my memory is failing me. Must have been the Ojeda game he finished.
Thank you. I remember listening to this on the radio and being amazed at Siebert's two home runs, both of which were off breaking balls, if the announcer was correct. I was all of eight years old. Siebert's became one of my favorite players due to this game.rlsb said:This pre-DH performance I liked because it had great pitching, great hitting by the same guy against a powerful team. Thanks, Sonny Siebert!
The Earl Wilson fans will say pfft!, but I barely remember when he pitched for the Red Sox.
http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1971/B09020BOS1971.htm
A special hat tip, too, to Torre for not bunting.The Gray Eagle said:Schilling's bloody sock starts have been mentioned, but they need to get more love. Pure guts and guile, when most other pitchers would have been out for the season, with the highest possible stakes, and he came through so big.
Game 6 against the Yankees in New York was mythic-- that Yankee offense was loaded with stars, they were a 101-win team back at home, and Schilling could barely walk. If he gets hit hard, the season's over and it's 87 years and counting. But he delivers 7 innings, with one run, 5 Ks, no walks. Just pure guts and greatness.
And then he came through against the Cardinals in the World Series too. It is the definition of heroic and legendary.
Lowe's start in Game 7 is really underrated as well.
1918stabbedbyfoulke said:Thank you. I remember listening to this on the radio and being amazed at Siebert's two home runs, both of which were off breaking balls, if the announcer was correct. I was all of eight years old. Siebert's became one of my favorite players due to this game.
Another gem was a 78 pitch complete game shutout by Bill Lee around 1974 or 1975. I had the pleasure to watch that game on TV. I tried to find it on Baseball Reference but could not locate individual game pitch counts for Lee in those years.
Sorry. Game 6 against the Yankees.curly2 said:Not trying to be snarky. Are you talking about Game 6 vs. the Yankees or Game 2 vs. the Cardinals?
Amen. What balls it took for Varitek to call it and Lowe to throw it. With Lowe that pitch often broke on the same plane -- if he misses his spot by 3 inches over the plate, Long drives it. If he misses by three inches inside, it's ball 4 and likely game, set and match.AlNipper49 said:Greatest pitch ever
Hank Scorpio said:Lowe and Schill top it for me, but I'd like to give honorable mention to John Lackey out-dueling Verlander in the 2013 ALCS, and his Game 6 of the World Series performance. While he wasn't electric in that game, there was just something surreal about him being on the mound in the clincher, with the crowd chanting "Lackey! Lackey!", considering how reviled he was just months earlier.
"2-seam lockup."Jordu said:Amen. What balls it took for Varitek to call it and Lowe to throw it. With Lowe that pitch often broke on the same plane -- if he misses his spot by 3 inches over the plate, Long drives it. If he misses by three inches inside, it's ball 4 and likely game, set and match.
I remember screaming with joy.
Gator4MVP88 said:Then there was a game on 8/16/2012 where Clay had an immaculate inning- which was just a footnote in the game but very cool to see. It also fits here because the only other Sox to accomplish that feat was... Pedro in 2002.
I remember that game very well. Pap came running off the mound after the 8th, pointing at Tek and screaming, "Great job! Great job!" As if Tek had done the heavy lifting by doing all the thinking.Gator4MVP88 said:For one of my favorites I'm going to go with a relief performance I will always remember just for the wow, dominance factor. Very early in 2007 vs TEX. http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/TEX/TEX200704080.shtml Paps came in with 1 out in the 8th, first and third situation up one run, got M Young and Teixeira to end the inning, then had a 1-2-3 ninth. For me it really signaled his dominance that would last the season, and that Tito would bring him in in the 8th if needed. For 2007 at least, it was his highest WPA performance of the year, at 0.546.
Beckett should talk. So, the pecking order for states/rednecks in that part of the south is something like Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi?HriniakPosterChild said:I remember that game very well. Pap came running off the mound after the 8th, pointing at Tek and screaming, "Great job! Great job!" As if Tek had done the heavy lifting by doing all the thinking.
(Hmm, Beckett did used to refer to Pap as a dumb Mississippi redneck. Affectionately, I'm sure.)
Rovin Romine said:To bend the rules, I'd nominiate Tim Wakefield's 1995 season.
*snip*
Everyone looked forward to the next Wakefield start. If he had the same stats at any other time, it may not have been the same. He really was a scrapheap ace after the strike season. In some ways he also symbolized the end of the awful early '90s teams. He was also a kind of "everyman ace" - in the sense that he relied on a skill-pitch, rather than a "physical prowess pitch" (if one can make that kind of distinction.)
Anyway, that's my nomination. It was so quirky and unexpected, I think it won a lot of people back to the Sox/baseball, post-strike.
Should have won that World Series (in the all time no shit Dick Tracy category).chrisfont9 said:Hurst was my favorite till Pedro. A lot of the great games he pitched seem to have merged in my memory, but I definitely recall this one, especially his two-armed salute after the final K to end the game. It clinched a tie for the division with about a week to play. Since I was pretty young in 1975, this was the first time I was really able to enjoy the Sox making the playoffs. From here he was on fire all the way through October.
Yeah, well, we got Schiraldi'd, but even so, if MLB had any stones they'd have stuck with Hurst for MVP. What did Knight do besides run around the bases?Al Zarilla said:Should have won that World Series (in the all time no shit Dick Tracy category).
Schiraldi was victim of some cheap hits in game 6 though. Just noticed that he pitched for the Mets in '84 and '85. Did I know that at one time and forgot about it from grief? Embedded Metser? Metsonian?chrisfont9 said:Yeah, well, we got Schiraldi'd, but even so, if MLB had any stones they'd have stuck with Hurst for MVP. What did Knight do besides run around the bases?
Al Zarilla said:Schiraldi was victim of some cheap hits in game 6 though. Just noticed that he pitched for the Mets in '84 and '85. Did I know that at one time and forgot about it from grief? Embedded Metser? Metsonian?
Not to mention it was an absolute thing of beauty.Comebacker to Foulke said:Lot of very memorable moments here, but I have to pick Lowe in G7 2004 ALCS. IMHO, that was not only the biggest game in Red Sox history, but you can argue it was the most important in MLB history, and perhaps in American sports annals. It's up there. It changed everything.
And Lowe, on just 2 days rest, was absolutely fucking nails. The pressure was off the scale, and he came through.
But no one knew he was going to throw it or more people would have shown up.RoDaddy said:I'll also throw in Dave Morehead's 1965 no-hitter for interest simply as a reminder of how shockingly weak a fan base this franchise once had because it was in front of only 1200 Fenway fans. It was memorable - probably most memorable - for that reason and when mentioned, is always along with his piss-poor tunrout