Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Washington Post: Tom Boswell: Yankees Are Monuments To Baseball Success
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posted 1 day ago by The Yankee Clapper to aging, great baseball players, injuries, pennant race, veteran leadership, yankees
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Boz pays homage to the gritty, gutsy, scrappy, first place 2013 underdog Yankees:
Read More...Perhaps for the first time in their history, the Yankees now epitomize exactly the kind of team that always used to try to beat them: a group of inspired-by-adversity, too-old-or-too-young, one-last-chance players who band together to prove that baseball is a team game, not just an aggregation of talent and fat contracts.
Put a few all-star seasons, such as Cano’s 31 RBI, Kiroda’s 1.99 ERA and Rivera’s 16 ...
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1. Bitter Calculus Instructor posted on September 30, 2012 at 08:00 PM # hit 0 | hit 0Time to slot in the Cubs' Chase for 100. They "just" need to win out against Houston to stay put at 99 losses.
Ouch. Rockies need to win 1 against the Diamondbacks (in Arizona) to avoid 100. They were swept by the Dodgers and were outscored 18-1.
From Baseball-Reference's Pitching Streak Finder, edited for Medlen's performance today:
Longest Streak with [team winning] From 1918 to 2012, as Starter
Rk Strk Start End Games Tm 1 Kris Medlen 2010-05-29 2012-09-30 23 ATL 2 Whitey Ford 1950-07-06 1953-06-12 22 NYY 2 Carl Hubbell 1936-07-17 1937-05-24 22 NYG 4 Lefty Grove 1931-04-22 1931-08-19 21 PHA 5 Roger Clemens 2001-05-26 2001-09-19 20 NYY 6 Aaron Sele 2000-09-05 2001-06-12 19 SEA 6 Tom Filer 1982-06-23 1988-06-14 19 CHC-TOR-MIL 8 Chuck Finley 1997-07-01 1998-05-02 18 ANA 9 Chris Carpenter 2005-06-14 2005-09-13 17 STL 9 Brian Anderson 1999-07-24 2000-05-23 17 ARI 9 Whitey Ford 1961-06-02 1961-08-10 17 NYY 9 Ewell Blackwell 1947-05-10 1947-07-25 17 CIN 9 Stan Coveleski 1925-05-09 1925-07-26 17 WSH 14 Randy Johnson 1995-08-11 1996-04-26 16 SEA 14 LaMarr Hoyt 1983-07-27 1984-04-10 16 CHW 14 Ron Guidry 1978-04-13 1978-07-02 16 NYY 14 General Crowder 1932-08-02 1933-04-12 16 WSH 18 John Smoltz 1996-04-09 1996-06-19 15 ATL 18 Roger Clemens 1986-04-11 1986-06-27 15 BOS 18 Rick Sutcliffe 1984-07-04 1984-09-14 15 CHC 18 Rudy May 1980-07-28 1981-04-20 15 NYY 18 Fergie Jenkins 1978-08-24 1979-05-04 15 TEX 18 Gaylord Perry 1974-04-23 1974-07-03 15 CLE 18 Steve Carlton 1972-06-21 1972-08-17 15 PHI 18 Tom Seaver 1969-08-26 1970-05-06 15 NYM 18 Dave McNally 1968-07-11 1968-09-08 15 BAL 18 Nelson Briles 1967-08-06 1968-04-27 15 STL 18 Firpo Marberry 1930-06-23 1931-04-26 15 WSH 18 Walter Johnson 1924-07-15 1924-09-17 15 WSH 18 Dazzy Vance 1924-07-11 1924-09-14 15 BRO 31 Vance Worley 2011-06-18 2011-09-06 14 PHI 31 Dan Haren 2005-05-31 2005-08-07 14 OAK 31 Johan Santana 2004-07-17 2004-09-24 14 MIN 31 Roy Halladay 2003-04-25 2003-07-02 14 TOR 31 Wilson Alvarez 1993-08-24 1994-05-04 14 CHW 31 Bobby Witt 1990-06-28 1990-09-06 14 TEX 31 Mike LaCoss 1978-09-28 1979-06-13 14 CIN 31 Chuck Dobson 1971-05-12 1971-07-20 14 OAK 31 Dock Ellis 1971-05-02 1971-07-17 14 PIT 31 Wayne Simpson 1970-05-01 1970-07-05 14 CIN 31 Mel Parnell 1950-06-27 1950-09-17 14 BOS 31 Ted Wilks 1944-06-03 1944-09-04 14 STL 31 Jesse Haines 1928-08-24 1929-05-20 14 STL 44 Jamie Moyer 2001-07-18 2001-09-24 13 SEA 44 Randy Johnson 1999-09-05 2000-05-10 13 ARI 44 Jason Bere 1999-04-23 2000-04-13 13 CIN-MIL 44 Steve Avery 1993-05-02 1993-07-05 13 ATL 44 Storm Davis 1988-07-03 1988-09-05 13 OAK 44 Andy Hawkins 1984-09-23 1985-06-09 13 SDP 44 Milt Wilcox 1983-09-12 1984-05-20 13 DETHe's the <a >John Wehner[/url] of pitchers.
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