Comments on: Great Pitching Duels – Part 1 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/3281 This and that about baseball stats. Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:01:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: Raphy http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/3281/comment-page-1#comment-9779 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:43:46 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=3281#comment-9779

Thanks for doing the Spahn calculation.

I didn't do any calculations. Every b-r boxscore has the game score included in the pitching line.

]]> By: gerry http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/3281/comment-page-1#comment-9777 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:56:17 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=3281#comment-9777 Thanks for doing the Spahn calculation. I look forward to Part 2 (and 3 and 4 and ... ?). I hope the Koufax perfecto of 9 September 1965 shows up somewhere in the series - Bob Hendley pitched a one-hitter and only two batters reached base against him. See also Mike Attiyeh's choice of the top 5 pitching duels of all time at http://baseballguru.com/attiyeh/analysismikeattiyeh04.html

]]> By: Raphy http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/3281/comment-page-1#comment-9761 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:26:31 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=3281#comment-9761 I was very careful to not call this "Greatest Pitching Duels" because I knew that my definition would not capture all the best games. Even if we search for the sum of both starters game scores, I doubt that we would capture the greatest pitching duels of all time. Rather, I chose specific criteria and highlighted the results. This only includes games since 1954 and only includes games in which both pitchers registered game scores over 100. The Spahn-Marichal game certainly needs to be included in a list of greatest pitching duels, but Spahn only recorded 2 SO that day and his game score of 97 barely misses the cut.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN196307020.shtml

]]> By: gerry http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/3281/comment-page-1#comment-9759 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:03:13 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=3281#comment-9759 Oeschger-Cadore was pre-1954 and so, I presume, invisible to Play Index. Same goes for any number of titanic early 20th century pitchers' duels. But I was surprised not to see the Spahn-Marichal game that people always talk about, the one that went 16 scoreless innings until Mays broke it up with a home run. The date was 2 July 1963.

]]> By: rpbrpb2002 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/3281/comment-page-1#comment-9754 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:54:23 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=3281#comment-9754 What about the Oeschger-Cadore match-up? 20+ innings each.

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