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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

Well I'm a fan of Ed Reulbach, so I have to work him in somehow...

1907,

Reulbach starts 2 games, completes 1, giving up 6 hits, 3 walks, and 1 run in 12 innings.

Three Finger Brown pitches 1 game, complete, yields 9 hits and 1 walk, no runs, in 9 innings.

That is 21 innings of 1 run ball, a combined 16 hits and walks.

In that 1907 WS, 4 different Cubs starters each got a win.

The year before, 1906, Ed pitched game 2 of the World Series on October 10th. He gave up one hit, a 7th inning single to White Sox first sacker Jiggs Donahue. That World Series one hitter was the best there was for many years, until some Yankee did a bit better on October 8, 1956. Don Larsen's no hitter that day took only 97 pitches.