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1990 Oakland Athletics #35 Bob Welch All-Star Game road jersey. Welch was the third starting pitcher in the rotation for the 1989 World Series champion Oakland A's, compiling a regular-season record of 17-8 and recording a win in his only start in the American League Championship Series against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Several starting pitchers have been credited with zero innings pitched, by not recording an out, the most recent being Bob Welch for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1981 World Series. Welch faced only four batters, allowing three hits and a walk, and was charged with two runs; his team ultimately won the game. [6]
The 1989 American League Championship Series was a semifinal series in Major League Baseball's 1989 postseason played between the Oakland Athletics and the Toronto Blue Jays from October 3 to 8. A dominant Oakland team took the Series four games to one, en route to a sweep of their cross-bay rivals, the San Francisco Giants , in a World Series ...
Welch, as of 2021, remains the last MLB pitcher to win at least 25 games in a season. [1] Fellow starter Dave Stewart , winner of 22 games, finished in a tie (with Pittsburgh starter Doug Drabek ) for the second-most wins in MLB. 1989 All-Star Mike Moore , 1991 All-Star Scott Sanderson , and longtime Athletic Curt Young rounded out the American ...
Josh Gibson slides into home during the East-West All-Star Game of the Negro Leagues at Comiskey Park in Chicago, on August 13, 1944. With his statistics set to become officially part of MLB ...
On Thursday, the Milwaukee Brewers announced that Bob Uecker, the longtime voice of the team, has died at age 90.Uecker, a baseball player-turned-broadcaster-turned-pop culture icon, had a sense ...
In baseball statistics, a pitcher is credited with a game started (denoted by GS) if he is the first pitcher to pitch for his team in a game. Cy Young [1] [2] [3] holds the Major League Baseball games started record with 815. Young is the only pitcher in MLB history to start more than 800 career games.
After 42 seasons, Bob Costas is retiring from baseball play-by-play. Costas had done games the past couple seasons for MLB Network and TBS Sports. Costas' contract with TBS expired at the end of ...