Comments on: Fewest Hits Allowed in 15+ Innings http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/2136 This and that about baseball stats. Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:01:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: RadioFreePeru http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/2136/comment-page-1#comment-8420 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:52:17 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=2136#comment-8420 Overlooked in the righteous commentary on the sterling pitching performances in the Bosox-Yanks Augusut 7 game was a pair of ironman stints by catchers Jason Varitek (14+ innings caught) and Jorge Posada (14), neither of whom is a kid.
Not the first marathon my a long shot (Date Innings Score *
8/29/1967 (Game 2) 20 NYY 4, BOS 3
9/5/1927 (Game 2) 18 BOS 12, NYY 11
4/16/1967 18 NYY 7, BOS 6
8/2/1978 17 BOS 7, NYY 5
9/29/1923 (Game 2) 16 BOS 3, NYY2
9/9/1962 16 BOS 5, NYY 4
6/4/1966 (Game 2) 16 BOS 6, NYY 3
4/19/1930 (Game 1) 15 BOS 4, NYY 3
4/18/1931 15 BOS 5, NYY 4
7/23/1932 (Game 1) 15 NYY 4, BOS 3
5/30/1951 15 BOS 1, NYY 10
6/1/1997 15 NYY 11, BOS 6
8/7/2009 15 NYY 2, BOS 0)
but thirteen all told, including two in 1967. The two beauties in 1967 also featured ironman jobs by the Yankees' Jake Gibbs in April (caught 18 innings, then singled stole second and scored the winning run in a Pepitone single and Bosox' Russ Gibson (caught all 18), as well as 38-year old Elston Howard (traded to Boston August 3), who caught the first game of the August 29th doubleheader (see Wikipedia for what a doubleheader is) and then came into the second game in the ninth inning, catching a total of 20+ innings for the day. 40,000 + attendance for the ninth-place CBS Yankees.
Con}incidences: Jim Lonberg ND in April game, won game 1 of the August doubleheader. Bob Tillman (purchased by Yankees from Boston on August 8) caught all 20 innings of game two for the Yankees. Game 2 was also Jim BallFour's only win on the year

]]> By: jetpac http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/2136/comment-page-1#comment-8417 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:18:12 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=2136#comment-8417 you've gotta feel bad for Texas in entry number 7. 15 innings, 4 hits, and they still manage to lose somehow.

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