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Pedro Jaime Martínez (born October 25, 1971) ... Martínez again came close to a perfect game on September 10, 1999, when he beat the New York Yankees, 3–1.
The Perfect Game: A Classic Collection of Facts, Figures, Stories and Characters from the Society for American Baseball Research (Taylor). ISBN 0-87833-815-2; Anderson, David W. (2000). More Than Merkle: A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human History (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press). ISBN 0-8032-1056-6
Danny Jackson is the sole pitcher to have thrown an immaculate inning in the postseason, doing so in the seventh inning of Game 5 of the 1985 World Series. [13] Jackson pitched a complete game, winning 6–1 and staving off elimination for the Kansas City Royals, who eventually won the series in seven games.
Few moments capture the heated nature of the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry quite like the one between Pedro Martinez and Don Zimmer in the 2003 ALCS. In the top of the fourth inning, Martinez launched a ...
The 1999 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the American League side in Major League Baseball’s (MLB) 1999 postseason, began on Tuesday, October 5, and ended on Monday, October 11, with the champions of the three AL divisions—along with a "wild card" team—participating in two best-of-five series.
The Dodgers would close out those Yankees in six games, sweetening part of the bad taste from losing consecutive Series to them in 1977-78. OPINION: Dodgers icon Fernando Valenzuela is gone. But ...
The board added two voting items to its agenda that could lead to the termination of Martinez's contract or buy him out of it. Alder, groups call for delay of Friday’s special school board ...
Pedro Martínez was also the first right-handed pitcher to reach 300 strikeouts with an ERA under 2.00 since Walter Johnson in 1912. The 13 complete games were tied for the second-highest single-season total in all of baseball since Martínez's career began ( Curt Schilling had 15 in 1998; Chuck Finley and Jack McDowell also reached 13 in a year).