Comments on: 1 career start, 1 career complete game http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/2227 This and that about baseball stats. Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:01:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: gerry http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/2227/comment-page-1#comment-8573 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:15:23 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=2227#comment-8573 The 11th guy on the list, Rogers McKee, is the guy who always turns up when I type Hornsby into bbref.

]]> By: DoubleDiamond http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/2227/comment-page-1#comment-8572 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:53:07 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=2227#comment-8572 Larry Anderson - not to be confused with Larry Andersen, whose big league career started around the same time but lasted a lot longer. Someone mentioned that the most recent one was a 5-inning rain-shortened game. I didn't check the details of any of these games, but I wonder how many of them were 8-inning or walk-off-in-the-9th-inning complete game losses on the road.

]]> By: BunnyWrangler http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/2227/comment-page-1#comment-8562 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:16:19 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=2227#comment-8562 Some of these guys, like Ed Konetchy and Hank Leiber, were position players who were apparently pressed into emergency duty or just begged their manager for a chance to start.

Henry Mathewson was Christy's brother.

This is a fun list. I only knew of one guy who threw a complete game in his only start, and that was Al Travers in the 1910s. After Ty Cobb got suspended, the rest of the Tigers went on strike. Detroit had to round up a team in order to continue playing, so they threw together a rag-tag bunch of guys, none of whom were major leaguers, and got clobbered by the A's by a score of 24-2 or something. Despite all of the runs allowed, Travers, the guy they found and chose to start, pitched the entire game for the Tigers.

]]> By: leatherman http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/2227/comment-page-1#comment-8557 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:12:56 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=2227#comment-8557 Frank Williams' shutout was a 5 inning, rain shortened game. For his career, he had two games with 5 or more IP (including the shutout). In the other game, on July 13, 1984, he pitched 6 shutout innings (innings 12-17) in relief before being replaced by Dusty Baker as a pinch hitter in the top of the 18th. Williams' Giants lost in the bottom of the 18th.

]]> By: SJBlonger http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/2227/comment-page-1#comment-8556 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:08:55 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=2227#comment-8556 It should be noted that Frank Williams' complete-game shutout was a 5-inning game. The next four on the list were all 9-inning games.

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