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There goes my weekend!

They're always looking for volunteers as well, so send them an email if you have some free time.

Looking at Lefty Grove's 1931 splits... He started 30 times that season, and went 27-3 with an ERA under two. Zero no-decisions as a starter that year. Wow.

[5] Amazing. 27 CG and 260.1 IP in 30 GS

[4] A couple of years back I contributed some c. 1952 Philadelphia A's/Phillies newspaper game summaries for a Retrosheet research project. A lot of fun.

This is so exciting for me. After 13 years as a Retrosheet volunteer, some games I inputted are on the Web site! Many thanks to Dave Smith and all the other Retrosheeters for the great work they do.

Surprisingly (to me), there have been 441 seasons where a pitcher had the same number of decisions as GS (min 162 IP). Of course most of them were guys who also pitched at least some relief so some of the decisions may have come there. There seemed to be three names that came up a few times:

Vic Willis, 1901-06: teaches me the lesson that some guys have more decisions than starts! From 1901 to 1906, he had 233 starts, 14 relief appearances and 234 decisions. He also had a losing record.

Eppa Rixey, 1920-24: 175 starts, 23 relief, 172 decisions

Robin Roberts, 1951-57: 262 starts, 33 relief, 254 decisions. For his career, 609 starts, 67 relief, 531 decisions.

Gaylord Perry, 1972-75: 155 starts, 1 relief, 147 decisions. Unfortunately that one relief appearance came in the year with 40 starts and 40 decisions.

Even guys like Wood and Niekro didn't have runs like Perry. Niekro's best was 41 decisions in 44 starts in 1979. Of course he was 40 years old. If we ignore 1973, Fergie had a 5-year run of 179 decisions in 192 starts.

Gaylord Perry, 1972-75: 155 starts, 1 relief, 147 decisions. Unfortunately that one relief appearance came in the year with 40 starts and 40 decisions.

Yeah, but he didn't get a decision in the relief appearance - he got a save. So he did earn the decision in all 40 starts.

Many thanks to the volunteers at Retrosheet! I respect all of you immensely and wish I could do more to help.

Looks like a 1915 Skeetersoft replay with real life lineups actually may be in my future after all. :-D

One thing that changed in this release - much of the information from David Vincent's ejections database has been incorporated.

Also, Harvey Haddix's 1959 12-inning perfecto lost in the 13th now has pitch count data for Haddix (with the exception of Lew Burdette's inning-ending groundout in the 12th, which might have come on the first pitch - the count is updated but the pitches aren't). If my math and assumption on Burdette's PA are correct, Haddix threw 115 pitches, 80 for strikes.

-- MWE