OT: The greatest game ever pitched

[tedzan]

I can't speak of what Casey spoke of. But, I certainly recall what Larsen's response to the gaggle of sports reporters that surrounded him.

He modestly told them...... "the Dodgers made it easy for me, I only threw 96 pitches".



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[almostdone]

When Sandy Koufax threw his perfect game on September 9th, 1965 he obviously had 27 batters up and 27 batters down. An amazing feat of pitching in any era. What makes this game even more unbelievable is that the opposing Cubs pitcher, Bob Hendly, threw a one hitter allowing only one unearned run. The one hit he gave up ended up left stranded on base.

In all of baseballs recorded history that game was the ONLY true one hitter. It was also the only game in history where only one runner was left on base.

So in all it wasn't just 27 up, 27 down it was actually 56 up and 54 down. In my humble opinion that was the greatest game ever pitched.

Drew

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bo...96509090.shtml

[chris6net]

I happened to be at the game where Tom Seaver had 10 strikeouts to end the game against San Diego. I was only 7 years old and my parents lived in Suffolk but I spent a lot of time at my grandparents house in Queens and my grandfather took me to this great game. What I remember most was that it was fairly cold at Shea Stadium that day and I couldn't wait for the game to end. Seaver was my favorite player growing up and the kids of my age group were all Mets fans in Suffolk County.

[Jeff_cvc]

I was looking at a Joe Oeschger card recently and wanted to find out more about this pitcher and what I found was extraordinary. Oeschger and his rival pitcher, Leon Cadore, each pitched 26 innings in one game, ending in a 1-1 tie. The game took place on May 1, 1920, and it was called due to darkness. While neither of these pitchers would be called the most dominant pitcher, it was certainly an impressive feat and in my mind one of the greatest pitching performances. To read more about this game, there was an ESPN article written about it a couple years ago.

http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/po...ent-26-innings