OTD in 1998,
@rogerclemens struck out 15 Orioles on 133 pitches over 8 innings to notch his 20th win of the season. Scott Erickson (also a NEPTA guy!) threw 128 pitches in a complete-game loss as Baltimore took the tough-luck defeat by a final score of 3-1.
Is this an old-fashioned pitching box score or what?
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Not enough people talk about Roger Clemens
• 354-184 (.658), 4672 K, 138.7 WAR
• 7x CYA (most ever), 1986 AL MVP
• 11x AS, 2x pitching triple crown
• 7x WAR leader, 7x ERA leader
• Two 20-K games (most ever)
• Made at least 30 starts 16x
• 5x K leader, 6x SHO leader
• Had 20 wins 6x, 250 K 5x
• Received MVP votes 10x
• 2x WS Champion with NYY
• All-time RE24 leader (771.99)
• 3-0, 2.37 ERA, 0.993 WHIP in the WS
• Led MLB in WAR (7.8) and ERA (1.87) in 2005, his age-42 season, narrowly missing an 8th CYA
• Made 707 starts (7th-most all time) and just 2 relief appearances: one at age 21 in 1984, his first season, and one at age 44 in 2007, his final season
• Only nine pitchers in MLB history have recorded five or more seasons with at least 200 IP, 200 K, and an ERA+ of 140; Roger Clemens is MLB's all-time leader with nine such seasons, two more than HOF'ers Randy Johnson and Walter Johnson, who are tied for second place