Comments on: Losing This One Must Have Been A Drag..Oh! http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/5770 This and that about baseball stats. Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:01:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: Jacob http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/5770/comment-page-1#comment-17446 Wed, 05 May 2010 05:04:14 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=5770#comment-17446 Marichal, of course, was the beneficiary of Warren Spahn's most famous hard-luck loss, this 16-inning thriller in 1963:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN196307020.shtml

]]> By: BalBurgh http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/5770/comment-page-1#comment-17435 Wed, 05 May 2010 02:51:30 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=5770#comment-17435 From the Walter Johnson biography at answers.com:

Johnson completely dominated batters through the 1919 season, which marked the end of the so-called "dead-ball era." But the Senators rarely were a winning team. The victories Johnson might have amassed with a better team would have brought him much closer to Cy Young's record of 511 wins. In the 279 games Johnson lost during his career, his team was shut out in 65 of them. In 27 games, Johnson lost by a score of 1-0. He also won 38 games by the same 1-0 score. Johnson holds the record both for 1-0 victories and 1-0 losses.

It's a hair off-topic, but that's a whole career of ouch!

]]> By: Kahuna Tuna http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/5770/comment-page-1#comment-17423 Tue, 04 May 2010 23:53:39 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=5770#comment-17423 Less than a year before that valiant 12-inning effort, Dick Drago pitched (and lost) the shortest complete game I've ever heard of.

]]> By: Mike http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/5770/comment-page-1#comment-17420 Tue, 04 May 2010 22:52:48 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=5770#comment-17420 September 9, 1965: Bob Hendley, Cubs - 8 IP, 1 H, 1BB, 1 unER on a throwing error, while Sandy Koufax throws a perfecto

]]> By: Kahuna Tuna http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/5770/comment-page-1#comment-17419 Tue, 04 May 2010 22:37:37 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=5770#comment-17419 October 2, 1908: Ed Walsh, White Sox — 4 H, 15 K in 8 innings‚ 1 run allowed on a passed ball, while Addie Joss is pitching a perfect game for Cleveland.

]]> By: Jim http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/5770/comment-page-1#comment-17417 Tue, 04 May 2010 22:28:44 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=5770#comment-17417 I was going to write Phil's response almost word for word but he beat me to it.

Indeed, Harvey Haddix's "perfect loss" was probably the biggest "ouch" loss in the history of the game.

]]> By: Aaron http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/5770/comment-page-1#comment-17416 Tue, 04 May 2010 22:28:22 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=5770#comment-17416 For a 9 inning game, this one was pretty painful as well:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/OAK/OAK200209140.shtml
The only run scored because one of the most sure-handed 1B in the game made an error (he only had 5 the whole year).

]]> By: Phil Haberkorn http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/5770/comment-page-1#comment-17415 Tue, 04 May 2010 22:24:05 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=5770#comment-17415 "Can you imagine...."???? Yeah, I can imagine the ultimate "ouch" like you're talking about. Two words: Harvey Haddix. May 26, 1959.

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