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Both Leon Cadore of Brooklyn and Joe Oeschger of Boston pitched complete games, and with 26 innings pitched, jointly hold the record for the longest pitching appearance in MLB history. Their record is considered unbreakable, as modern pitchers rarely pitch even nine innings, and newer baseball rules have made long extra-innings games a rarity.
Hoyt finished his career with a win–loss record of 237–182 and an ERA of 3.59. By the time he retired in 1938, he had pitched the most victories in World Series history (his World Series record with the Yankees and A's was 6–4). As a hitter, Hoyt posted a .198 batting average (255-for-1287) with 96 runs, 100 RBI and 40 bases on balls.
In today's game of five-man rotations, pitchers do not start enough games to break the record. No pitcher started 34 games in 2024, [ 11 ] and only three pitchers in the 21st century have started more than 35 games in a season ( Tom Glavine in 2002 and Roy Halladay and Greg Maddux in 2003, each with 36 starts).
Carl Erskine, one of the last surviving Brooklyn Dodgers and a mainstay of a pitching rotation that carried the team to four World Series, has died at 97.
On September 8, 1921, Oeschger became the fourth pitcher in major league history to throw an immaculate inning, striking out all three batters on a total of nine pitches in the fourth inning of a game against the Philadelphia Phillies. [9] He had his only 20-win season that year, which was the third-best in the National League. [5]
Buehler had a 1-6 record and 5.38 earned run average over 16 regular-season starts in 2024. Buehler's best season came in 2021 when he finished with a 16-4 record and 2.47 ERA while striking out ...
Despite winning Manager of the Year 2016, then back-to-back pennants in 2017 and 2018, Roberts was ridiculed for his pitching decisions in Game 5 of the 2019 NLDS, when Clayton Kershaw gave up two ...
A 2007 HBO film, Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush, is a documentary covering the Dodgers history from early days to the beginning of the Los Angeles era. In the film, the story is related that O'Malley was so hated by Brooklyn Dodger fans after the move to California, that it was said: "If you asked a Brooklyn Dodger fan, if you had a ...