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No-Hitter Trivia:
Who threw 2 no-hitters in a year that he won only 5 games?
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Virgil "Fire" Trucks with the Tigers in the 50's.
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Correct! 1952 fairly amazing.
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Cripes, that's well beyond fairly amazing. That's extremely amazing. Can't believe I haven't heard that before!
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It does account for it. Plus i think DH in the American league has a 10% better chance to get a hit versus a Starting pitcher plus a pinch hitter in the 9th etc..
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Didn't know Virgil was the uncle of recently deceased Allman Brother drummer Butch Trucks.
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He also threw a one-hitter that year & all three low-hit games were 1-0! He finished 5-19 with a 3.97 on a horrible Tigers team. After 'retiring', he was the batting practice pitcher for several teams for years and years. He passed away at 95 in 2013 but in 2005, someone had given my his address to which I sent a twenty dollar check and received a signed copy of his biography, "Throwing Heat" and a very nice personalized thank you note in the shaky cursive writing of an 87-year-old. I do wish I had taken the opportunity to meet him.
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The DH of an American League team is still going to make an out more than 70% of the time on average. It is not like every team's DH is Rod Carew, though I do concede that usually any position player stands a better chance of getting a hit than a pitcher.
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You can be a pitcher and have a .070 on base percentage on the year ..but try that being a DH..see how long you will stay in the lineup. Leagues make rule changes based on 20 years of history (thus they look at modern trends as reality) so you cant just say its only 20 years of history and we need to go back to 1970 as someone else stated... Its not even close as far as how many NL no hitters there have been versus AL in the last 20 years. Lets see the next 2 out of 3 no hitters be in AL parks before we bring this back up. Last edited by 1952boyntoncollector; 05-18-2017 at 09:38 AM. |
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I don't know what you mean by worth. In 2016 Prince Fielder played 89 games total, 80 of which he served as DH. He hit 212 with a 292 OBP.
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Plus 1 hitters with no walks are a lot more impressive than no hitters with 5 walks....chase had at least 3 walks yesterday.. Last edited by 1952boyntoncollector; 05-28-2017 at 07:58 AM. |
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....... and nowadays losing teams are generally subbing in a pinch hitter for their starting pitcher long before the 9th inning. Especially if they are being shut out and are desperate for runs. Yes, it is slightly easier to pitch a no-hitter in the NL as opposed to the AL, but nowhere near the difference you are proposing. Either way, it's a damn fine accomplishment, that should not be diminished one way or another. I'm sure more no-hitters happen against weak hitting teams rather then strong hitting teams to. These are still professional hitters though, and lots has to go right for something like this to fall into place. |
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I don't think there is any support for the NL vs AL debate overall.
The opposite thinking of a DH making one more spot in the rotation harder is that the pitcher not having to swing a bat and possibly run bases can rest their bodies between innings. The batting average for the NL is .252, for the AL it is .247. So you could say that the NL would be harder since they have the higher batting average. The DH was introduced in 1973. Since then here are the break downs: 51 - AL 54 - NL Perfect Games Since 1973 9 - AL 5 - NL
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For the past 10 years etc its clearly trending in the NL favor i believe it will show. Last edited by 1952boyntoncollector; 05-17-2017 at 01:29 PM. |
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Another interesting stat debunking the NL vs AL myth when it comes to no hitters:
1971-1972 - NO DH 1971 - 3 no hitters all NL 1972 - 3 no hitters all NL 1973 - DH introduced 5 no hitters, 4 of them were in the AL 1974 3 no hitters, all in the AL So the two years before it was introduced there were 6 no hitters all in the NL, the 2 years afterwards there were 8 no hitters and 7 of them were in the AL.
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Jered Weaver May 2, 2012 AL Los Angeles Angels Minnesota Twins 9 - 0 Johan Santana June 1, 2012 NL New York Mets St. Louis Cardinals 8 - 0 Matt Cain June 13, 2012 NL San Francisco Giants Houston Astros 10 - 0 Perfect Game Felix Hernandez August 15, 2012 AL Seattle Mariners Tampa Bay Rays 1 - 0 Perfect Game Homer Bailey September 28, 2012 NL Cincinnati Reds Pittsburgh Pirates 1 - 0 Homer Bailey July 2, 2013 NL Cincinnati Reds San Francisco Giants 3 - 0 Tim Lincecum July 13, 2013 NL San Francisco Giants San Diego Padres 9 - 0 Henderson Alvarez September 29, 2013 NL Miami Marlins Detroit Tigers 1 - 0 Interleague Play; final game of season Josh Beckett May 25, 2014 NL Los Angeles Dodgers Philadelphia Phillies 6 - 0 Clayton Kershaw June 18, 2014 NL Los Angeles Dodgers Colorado Rockies 8 - 0 Tim Lincecum June 25, 2014 NL San Francisco Giants San Diego Padres 4 - 0 Jordan Zimmermann September 28, 2014 NL Washington Nationals Miami Marlins 1 - 0 Final game of season Chris Heston June 9, 2015 NL San Francisco Giants New York Mets 5 - 0 Max Scherzer June 20, 2015 NL Washington Nationals Pittsburgh Pirates 6 - 0 Cole Hamels July 25, 2015 NL Philadelphia Phillies Chicago Cubs 5 - 0 Hisashi Iwakuma August 12, 2015 AL Seattle Mariners Baltimore Orioles 3 - 0 Mike Fiers August 21, 2015 AL Houston Astros Los Angeles Dodgers 3 - 0 Interleague Play Jake Arrieta August 30, 2015 NL Chicago Cubs Los Angeles Dodgers 2 - 0 Max Scherzer October 3, 2015 NL Washington Nationals New York Mets 2 - 0 Jake Arrieta April 21, 2016 NL Chicago Cubs Cincinnati Reds 16 - 0 Last edited by 1952boyntoncollector; 05-17-2017 at 02:20 PM. |
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