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MLB.com: [Cliff] Lee wins No. 19 for Tribe’s ninth straight

Rather, the history Tuesday night belonged, once again, to left-hander Cliff Lee, who was backed up by another big offensive performance from his teammates and cruised to his 19th win in a 10-4 victory over the Tigers at Comerica Park.

According to Stats Inc., Lee is just the eighth pitcher since 1920 to start out a season at 19-2 or better. The others were Lefty Grove (19-2 in 1931), Roe Preacher (19-2 in 1951), Whitey Ford (19-2 in 1961), Gaylord Perry (19-2 in 1966), Ron Guidry (19-2 in 1978), Greg Maddux (19-2 in 1995) and Roger Clemens (20-1 in 2001).
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The Indians won their ninth straight game. It’s their first nine-game winning streak since June of 2005.

NTNgod Posted: August 26, 2008 at 11:24 PM | 8 comment(s)
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1. wcw Posted: August 27, 2008 at 01:51 AM (#2918251)

He means Preacher Roe.

And for a minute, I thought it was so cool someone named his kid after fish eggs.

2. Lou Potent Potables (Dan Lee) Posted: August 27, 2008 at 02:36 AM (#2918273)

I kind of like the idea of an itinerant Roe Preacher, moving from town to town extolling the virtues of fish eggs and winning baseball games. Seems like he'd be more successful in the Japanese leagues, though.

As for Lee, I'm still flabbergasted by how good he's been. I'm a little disappointed to learn that Wedge is considering a six-man rotation down the stretch. That would pretty much eliminate any (small) chance Cliff has to win 25 games.

I'm sure I could look this up, but I'm too lazy. Who was the last pitcher to win 20 games by September 1? Is it Bob Welch 1990?

3. Eddie Gaedel Posted: August 27, 2008 at 08:15 AM (#2918335)

In 1994, Smoltz won his 20th on 16Aug. He'd go 4-2 with two NDs the rest of the way (4-3 Braves victory and a 2-1 Braves loss) to finish at 24-8.

He started that season with a clunker of a loss (6 ER in 6.1 IP) before rattling off 14 consecutive wins over a 15 game stretch. During that time, he had a 1.91 ERA with a 12-21 K/BB ratio.

Nice.

Not sure if anyone has won #20 in August since.

4. Hack Wilson Posted: August 27, 2008 at 08:38 AM (#2918348)

He means Preacher Roe.

Are you sure? Perry Gaylord sounds right.

By the way Preacher achieved some notoriety after he retired by teaching the spitball.

5. wcw Posted: August 27, 2008 at 10:20 AM (#2918440)

..though as I recall, as with Perry word is Roe honored that worthy pitch more in the breach than the execution. There was some ump's memoir once to the effect, anyhow.

6. Boots Day Posted: August 27, 2008 at 10:24 AM (#2918445)

And for a minute, I thought it was so cool someone named his kid after fish eggs.

It's been done.

7. Hack Wilson Posted: August 27, 2008 at 10:38 AM (#2918464)

Gaylord and the Preacher sounds like a Burt Reynolds movie?

8. Kurt Posted: August 27, 2008 at 10:47 AM (#2918473)

Apparently I shouldn't have traded him in May for Alex Freaking Gordon. Oh well.

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