I love this sport. LOVE. I love how bitter rivals can cry together over tragedies or bond over historical and seemingly impossible moments like this.
Two Perfect Games, one being the first Giants Franchise History
Three No Hitters, one being the first in Mets Franchise History, one being completed by 6 pitchers
One 4-homer game
A 49 year old had won a start
Numerous 3-homer games and too many pitchers flirting with no-nos to count.
And it’s mid-June.
This may become the greatest year of baseball ever.
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Madison Bumgarner.
He can pitch.
He can hit.
Madison FFFFFFFFFucking Bumgarner.
FFFFFFFFFinal line: 7.2IP, 6H, 2R, 1ER, 0BB, 12K. Goes 1-for-3 with a first career dinger.
June 12, 2012; Madison Bumgarner’s long-awaited, highly anticipated first career homer.
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New York Giants Turn Back the Clock jerseys to be worn against the Chicago Cubs on Saturday, June 2nd.
Something I kinda really, really want.
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Wes & Rick Ferrell. Rick is a Hall of Fame catcher who spent some of his career with the Senators and Red Sox, but also with the St. Louis Browns. Who I’m very interested in learning more about ever since my jaunt to St. Louis and purchase of a Browns cap.
Associated PressMeanwhile, Wes Ferrell was a star pitcher in his own right, and possibly the best hitting pitcher in major league history - 37 career homers, a six-RBI game at the plate, and a bat good enough that he’d play in the outfield between starts. He had a year where he went 25-14 and hit .347, which And he had a temper.
From his SABR bio:
“During the 1936 season, Ferrell walked off the field in disgust and refused to continue pitching twice in the space of five days, angered each time by his teammates’ defensive shortcomings. On the second occasion he was fined $1,000 and suspended for ten days. Ferrell’s reaction was to threaten to punch the manager, Joe Cronin, in the nose.”
He also once refused to come out of a game for a number of minutes, and upon removal, began punching himself in the jaw and slamming his head into a concrete wall. And that was with his brother there to calm him down.
Rick Ferrell’s SABR bio is also an excellent read.
Scumbag Bochy. #FreeRomo
The wonderful, amazing, beautiful swing that is Buster Posey’s and a Panda Mode 20-game hit streak.
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Giants win with their second walk-off of the season.
Cain spectacular, yet still Cained. Final line: 9IP, 2H, 1BB, 4K, 0R. Damn Bochy, he could have gone 10 innings, too.
Last 18IP: 3H, 1BB, 15K, 0R.
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