Padres relief pitcher Daniel Camarena in his second at bat ever hits a grand slam
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“They’re letting this pitcher bat because they know the game is over” - me 5 seconds before the slam diego
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Cy Young’s 749 complete games seems pretty safe.
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So Darvish gives up 8 earned runs in 4 innings and still doesn’t take the L. Definitive proof that jacob degrom is just a loser.
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Actually at the time it was the most walks in history.
Holy shit, what an insane year.
Lol, what a fucking golf shot
I dunno, this Pud Galvin seems like a real up and comer.
this doesn’t seem right…
Oh, he was pinch hitting, I guess they mean a relief pitcher who was actually pitching in the game
The Caveman raked.
That’s called a “Jack Morris”. If Darvish grows a sick mustache he might just make the HOF.
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Doesn’t even look like a terrible pitch. He did miss and got it inside, but it was down.
The same guy would need Rickey’s batting eye and ability to stay at the top of the lineup for as long as he did, as well as managers who would give them a perma-green light to steal. Guys with speed generally don’t have the bat to hang around for any length of time. Rickey was a unicorn.
I’m not seeing it. I mean, a guy could steal a hundred bases (something that only 12 players in history have ever done even once, none more than three times and none in the last 33 years) every year for fourteen years and he still wouldn’t break the record. You get entire teams that don’t even attempt 100 steals in a season now.
The wild card is rule changes. Baseball is perpetually torn between a culture of nostalgia and history vs. losing fans to more exciting sports. I could see some future where they try to find a way to tilt the advantage to base stealing because its one of the most exciting parts of baseball.