Post-season pitching wins > 9 innings
Posted by Andy on October 18, 2007
Here are all the post-season starts where the winning pitcher went more than 9 innings:
Cnt Player Date Series G Tm Opp GmReslt App,Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR Pit Str GmSc IR IS BF AB 2B 3B IBB HBP SH SF GDP SB CS Pk BK WP ERA +----+-----------------+-------------+------+-+---+----+-------+---------+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+--+--+--+--+--+------+ 1 Jack Morris 1991-10-27 WS 7 MIN ATL W 1-0 SHO10 ,W 10 7 0 0 2 8 0 126 79 84 38 35 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00 2 Ken Holtzman 1973-10-09 ALCS 3 OAK BAL W 2-1 CG 11 ,W 11 3 1 1 1 7 1 93 38 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.82 3 Tom Seaver 1969-10-15 WS 4 NYM BAL W 2-1 CG 10 ,W 10 6 1 1 2 6 0 80 38 35 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.90 4 Dave McNally 1969-10-05 ALCS 2 BAL MIN W 1-0 SHO11 ,W 11 3 0 0 5 11 0 97 41 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 5 Bob Gibson 1964-10-12 WS 5 STL @NYY W 5-2 CG 10 ,W 10 6 2 0 2 13 1 87 39 36 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 6 Warren Spahn 1958-10-01 WS 1 MLN NYY W 4-3 CG 10 ,W 10 8 3 3 4 6 2 66 40 36 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2.70 7 Warren Spahn 1957-10-06 WS 4 MLN NYY W 7-5 CG 10 ,W 10 11 5 5 1 2 1 51 39 38 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 4.50 8 Clem Labine 1956-10-09 WS 6 BRO NYY W 1-0 SHO10 ,W 10 7 0 0 2 5 0 81 38 36 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 9 Carl Erskine 1952-10-05 WS 5 BRO @NYY W 6-5 CG 11 ,W 11 5 5 5 3 6 1 70 41 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4.09 10 Allie Reynolds 1950-10-05 WS 2 NYY @PHI W 2-1 CG 10 ,W 10 7 1 1 4 6 0 76 39 33 3 1 1 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0.90 11 Hal Schumacher 1936-10-05 WS 5 NYG @NYY W 5-4 CG 10 ,W 10 10 4 3 6 10 1 62 43 37 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 2.70 12 Schoolboy Rowe 1934-10-04 WS 2 DET STL W 3-2 CG 12 ,W 12 7 2 2 0 7 0 87 42 41 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.50 13 Carl Hubbell 1933-10-06 WS 4 NYG @WSH W 2-1 CG 11 ,W 11 8 1 0 4 5 0 80 45 38 0 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 14 Herb Pennock 1926-10-07 WS 5 NYY @STL W 3-2 CG 10 ,W 10 7 2 2 1 4 0 73 37 36 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.80 15 Art Nehf 1924-10-04 WS 1 NYG @WSH W 4-3 CG 12 ,W 12 10 3 2 5 3 0 70 49 44 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 1.50 16 Dickey Kerr 1919-10-07 WS 6 CHW @CIN W 5-4 CG 10 ,W 10 11 4 3 2 2 0 56 42 38 3 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 2.70 17 Babe Ruth 1916-10-09 WS 2 BOS BRO W 2-1 CG 14 ,W 14 6 1 1 3 4 1 97 48 43 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0.64 18 Christy Mathewson 1913-10-08 WS 2 NYG @PHA W 3-0 SHO10 ,W 10 8 0 0 1 5 0 80 40 38 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 19 Jack Coombs 1911-10-17 WS 3 PHA @NYG W 3-2 CG 11 ,W 11 3 2 1 4 7 0 88 36 31 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0.82
There have only been 2 such games since 1969. But any baseball fan over the age of about 22 will remember Jack Morris' epic game over John Smoltz and the Braves in Game 7 of the 1991 World Series. I'm actually pretty surprised that this performance, added in with Morris' career, didn't get him into the Hall of Fame.
Did you notice that Clem Labine made both this list, and yesterday's list of come-from-behind game-winning hits?
Labine, who died earlier this year at age 80, was mentioned on this blog back in August, by having all 3 hits in a season go for homers back in 1955.
And that guy who's #17 on the list...Babe Ruth. What a funny name for a pitcher. Did he ever amount to anything?
October 18th, 2007 at 8:13 am
Besides the Jack Morris game, my favorite memory along these lines was Game 5 of the '86 NLCS. Nolan Ryan and Doc Gooden both pitched into the 10th - I think Ryan allowed some baserunners on without retiring a batter and was pulled, while Doc got out of the inning before turning it over to Jesse Orosco in the 11th.
Neither pitcher finished the game or got the win, and I'm sure this has happened before, but to me it goes down as one of the great post-season pitchers' duels.
October 18th, 2007 at 8:24 am
Good memory, Von. The box score for the game you recall is right here.
October 18th, 2007 at 10:43 am
The Gibson victory in '64 was followed three days later by a 9-inning victory in the clincher.
It means either his arm truly was superhuman or managers, pitching coaches, etc., are needlessly dogmatic about 100-pitch counts, rest periods, what have you. I think both are extremes, but still.
Wasn't Tom Glavine the last guy to lose a complete game in the postseason? Now I have to look that up.
October 18th, 2007 at 10:47 am
Game Two, 1991 World Series. Glavine went nine innings for the defeat. Three runs, only one earned -- Scott Leius' deciding home run in the 8th.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIN/MIN199110200.shtml
October 18th, 2007 at 11:01 am
I screwed the pooch on that one. Wrote it on the train and now I've gotten a smoothie just so I can log in and acknowledge my mistake. Glavine pitched eight innings as the Twins did not bat in the 9th. No CG. Looked at the linescore wrong.
October 18th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Taco: Glavine still gets credit for a CG in Game 2 of 91 WS.
However, the last Losing CG was Glavine, again, in the 92 WS: another 8 IP performance in Game 4.