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Greg Maddux struck out nearly everyone.
Tony Gwynn came to the plate against him 107 times and never once went down on strikes, hitting .415 with a .476 on-base mark in the matchup.
A bat meeting a brain.
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Kirk Gibson could barely walk in October 1988.
He pinch hit with two outs in the bottom of the ninth of Game 1, Dodgers down 4 to 3 with a man on, against Dennis Eckersley. He worked a full count, then hit a backdoor slider into the right field pavilion.
It was his only plate appearance of the whole World Series. Oakland had won 104 games that year, and the Dodgers beat them in five.
What's the most cold-blooded October moment you've seen?
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Freddie Freeman homered off his former team for his 18th career postseason HR, tying Bryce Harper, Max Muncy, and Albert Pujols for the 2nd most in National League history (Kyle Schwarber: 21).
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@MLB Post Season home run totals are overrated. Way more games played in the post season the last 30 years than pre and post war seasons. Today’s players change teams often chasing championships. A player could feasibly play 22 game in one postseason.
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"This is exactly why there was only one choice: the Philadelphia 76ers... LeBron knew about this arthritis and this sciatica so he chose a hyper, young, athletic team to fit his 41 year old reality."
@colincowherd on reports of LeBron's health issues this offseason
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Larry Legend wasn’t playing for the numbers.
Larry Bird was one steal away from making NBA history.
In 1985, Bird finished the first three quarters with 30 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists and 9 steals. He was sitting on the doorstep of only the second quadruple-double in NBA history.
And then came the fourth quarter.
Boston was blowing them out, and Bird decided he had done enough. He could have checked back into the game, chased that final steal and written his name into the record books.
He didn’t.
The media asked Bird afterward if he regretted not going back in to get the quadruple-double.
His response said everything about the way he played the game:
What for? I already did enough damage to them.
That was Larry Bird.
He wasn’t chasing numbers. He wasn’t padding his stats. He wasn’t putting his own individual achievements above the game.
He had already dominated the night. 30 points. 12 rebounds. 10 assists. 9 steals. Three quarters of basketball.
One more steal would have made history.
Bird simply didn’t care.
That competitive fire, that confidence and that respect for the game are a huge part of what made Larry Legend different. He didn’t need a box-score achievement to prove what everyone in the building already knew.
Larry Bird wasn’t playing for the numbers.
The numbers were just trying to keep up with Larry Bird. ☘️
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Robert A. McDevitt retweeted
Larry Legend wasn’t playing for the numbers.
Larry Bird was one steal away from making NBA history.
In 1985, Bird finished the first three quarters with 30 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists and 9 steals. He was sitting on the doorstep of only the second quadruple-double in NBA history.
And then came the fourth quarter.
Boston was blowing them out, and Bird decided he had done enough. He could have checked back into the game, chased that final steal and written his name into the record books.
He didn’t.
The media asked Bird afterward if he regretted not going back in to get the quadruple-double.
His response said everything about the way he played the game:
What for? I already did enough damage to them.
That was Larry Bird.
He wasn’t chasing numbers. He wasn’t padding his stats. He wasn’t putting his own individual achievements above the game.
He had already dominated the night. 30 points. 12 rebounds. 10 assists. 9 steals. Three quarters of basketball.
One more steal would have made history.
Bird simply didn’t care.
That competitive fire, that confidence and that respect for the game are a huge part of what made Larry Legend different. He didn’t need a box-score achievement to prove what everyone in the building already knew.
Larry Bird wasn’t playing for the numbers.
The numbers were just trying to keep up with Larry Bird. ☘️
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Vladimir Guerrero spent his first eight seasons in Montreal, but his Hall of Fame plaque shows an Angels cap, the first one in Cooperstown. The swing looked the same in both uniforms.
He went after pitches at his shoe tops and up around his eyes and still hit them hard, and he finished with a .318 average and 449 home runs over 16 seasons.
The writers put him in on his second ballot in 2018 with 92.9 percent of the vote.
Sixth among the smoothest right handed swings ever, and nobody made a bad pitch look better.
Whose right handed swing was the smoothest?
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Aaron Judge hit 62 home runs in 2022, breaking the American League record Roger Maris had held since 1961. He did it after turning down a contract extension that spring, betting on himself in a walk year.
Sammy Sosa topped 62 three times and never led the league in any of those seasons. McGwire and Bonds kept getting there first. Judge's 62 at least came with the league lead attached.
Who do you want up when you need a homer?
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Sammy Sosa did lead @MLB in homers in 2000 with 50. He also had the greatest 5, 6, & 7 consecutive year home run totals ever with 292, 332, and 367. It still amazes me that 3 players in the top 10 all time in HR’s including the all time HR leader are not Hall of Famers.
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Robert A. McDevitt retweeted
Ernie Banks hit 47 home runs in 1958 while playing shortstop. The Cubs lost 82 games and he won the MVP anyway.
Then he did it again in 1959. That's the bar for a peak Cub.
Sosa's 2001 comes close, with 64 homers and 425 total bases. Sandberg's 1984 dragged the Cubs to October for the first time since 1945.
Fergie Jenkins completed 30 of his 39 starts in 1971. All great.
Banks was doing it on bad teams, at the hardest spot on the infield.
One prime Cub, Banks or somebody else?
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Robert A. McDevitt retweeted
Through age 31
Hank Aaron: .320 BA, 366 HR, 796 XBH
Miguel Cabrera: .320 BA, 366 HR, 796 XBH
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Food Card Friday! Show me a picture of a food-branded card, or a card with actual food featured on it! 🍕🍿🌮🌭🍔🥤
#thehobby #FoodCardFriday
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I was slowly getting back into sports card collecting after 10 year hiatus. My son, @MattMcDevitt21, and I had got into Pokémon cards for a couple years and I figured it was time to get back into the sport card market. Cheap fun times then, now it’s an insanely expensive hobby.
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Adam Wainwright and Yadier Molina took the record for most starts by a battery in September 2022, passing Mickey Lolich and Bill Freehan with their 325th game together.
A year later Wainwright was in his last season and stuck on 198 wins for almost three months. He got 199 against Baltimore on September 12, then number 200 six days later with seven shutout innings in a 1 to 0 game against the Brewers.
Then he retired. Molina ends up eighth among the greatest Cardinals and Wainwright tenth.
Makes sense they'd be that close. Who tops your all time Cardinals list?
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Oh that’s fine. Not trying to have a heated debate or be a Pujols hater. I totally respected his game even as a @Cubs fan. I just don’t think the Golden Era and Post War Era of baseball get any respect these days. People, at times, just post lists without doing the research.
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