{"id":213,"date":"2008-08-13T19:08:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T02:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2008-12-04T15:39:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T22:39:38","slug":"no-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"No decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

While looking for home-run games<\/a>, I ran across this game<\/a>, because it came up as a game with no runs, and, therefore, a good candidate for incorrect parsing of the Retrosheet event file. It’s a 0-0 tie between the Mets and the Phillies on Saturday, October 2, 1965 at Shea. It went 18 innings, and, incredibly, each starter went 15 innings!<\/b> Those are a couple of real baseball players! Let’s meet them, shall we?<\/p>\n

chris_short_1967_topps.JPG<\/p>\n

Chris Short<\/a> pitched for 15 years, all but one for Phils. His 132 wins for Philly puts him at #4 on the all-time Phillies win list, trailing only Steve Carlton, Robin Roberts, and Grover Cleveland Alexander.
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rob_gardner_1966_topps.JPG<\/p>\n

Rob Gardner<\/a> was born in Binghamton, NY. 1965 was his first year in the bigs. This game accounted for more than half<\/a> of his innings pitched in ’65. Garnder nothced only 14 wins over eight seasons with six teams.
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So, why was the game stopped? It was the second game of a doubleheader, the last week of the season, and neither team was in contention, but that shouldn’t matter, right? This page<\/a> talks of a “curfew.” Looks like there used to be a 1 AM curfew in the AL, but maybe this was a legal curfew for kids down in the city? <\/p>\n

On the flip side, I saw the last half of the 19-17 Red Sox win over the Rangers<\/a> last night. Stat of the Day did an entry on it<\/a>, listing large numbers of runs in a losing effort. The most extreme was this 23-22 Phillies\/Cubs game in 1979<\/a>. Nice. Three homers by Kingman in the losing effort.<\/p>\n

2008-12-04:<\/b> The Phillies\/Cubs game is now available at iTMS<\/a>!<\/p>\n

dave_kingman_1979_topps.jpg<\/p>\n

2008-09-15:<\/b> The Baseball Research Journal has an old article<\/a> about a 19-inning<\/b> 0-0 tie. Johnny Vander Meer pitched the first 15 for the Reds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While looking for home-run games, I ran across this game, because it came up as a game with no runs, and, therefore, a good candidate for incorrect parsing of the Retrosheet event file. It’s a 0-0 tie between the Mets and the Phillies on Saturday, October 2, 1965 at Shea. It went 18 innings, and, … Continue reading No decision<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}