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This Date in Baseball-Week Ahead
By The Associated PressMay 6, 2021 GMT
May 7
1917 Babe Ruth of the Red Sox allowed two hits as he outdueled Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators 1-0. Ruth knocked in the winning run with a sacrifice fly.
1922 Jesse Barnes of the New York Giants pitched the only no-hitter of the year, beating the Philadelphia Phillies 6-0.
1925 Pittsburgh shortstop Glenn Wright made an unassisted triple play in the ninth inning against the St. Louis Cardinals when he caught Jim Bottomley’s line drive, stepped on second to double Jimmy Cooney, and tagged Rogers Hornsby coming from first. The Cardinals, trailing 9-4, scored six runs in the eighth inning to win 10-9 at Forbes Field.
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CINCINNATI In their first season as a professional baseball franchise in 1869, the Reds went 57-0 and put Cincinnati on the baseball map. Things were much less organized back then.
As the Reds moved into the modern Major Leagues and National League in the late 19th century, they featured some great all-time teams and won five World Series.
But which was the best of the best, at least in the regular season? We took a closer look at the top 5 finishes for the Reds over the years.
1. 1975
Record: 108-54
Hall of Famers like Joe Morgan, Johnny Bench and Tony Perez helped the Reds win the NL West division by 20 games under manager Sparky Anderson. Morgan was the ’75 National League MVP winner after he batted .327/.466/.508 with 17 home runs, 94 RBIs, 67 steals and 107 runs. The rotation featured three 15-game winners in Gary Nolan, Jack Billingham, and Don Gullett.
February 7, 2021
Garrett Richards has an uncanny ability to spin a baseball. Per Statcast, the 32-year-old right-hander recently signed to a free-agent contract by the Boston Red Sox was 99th percentile in curveball spin last year, while his four-seam spin ranked in the 97th percentile. Moreover, the most-effective weapon in his arsenal, a 2,746-RPM slider, was topped only by Sergio Romo’s 2,913 RPMs among hurlers who threw the pitch at least 200 times.
Richards’s least-effective offering in 2020 was a two-seamer that’s hard to put a positive spin on. The erstwhile San Diego Padre threw 66 of them, and the ones that were put into play tended to get punished. Opposing hitters whacked them to a tune of a .467 batting average and an .867 slugging percentage. And it was even worse in 2019. While a 28-pitch sample obviously needs to be taken with a huge grain of salt, numbers like .500 and .875 stand out like a sore thumb. I asked Richards about his plans going forward, antici
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By the time Casey Stengel became manager of the Oakland Oaks for the 1946 season, the franchise already had nearly a half-century of backstory. Sometimes it stood tall and strong among Pacific Coast League competitors, but often seeming overshadowed by the San Francisco Seals, whose city was about five times
By the time Casey Stengel became manager of the Oakland Oaks for the 1946 season, the franchise already had nearly a half-century of backstory. Sometimes it stood tall and strong among Pacific Coast League competitors, but often seeming overshadowed by the San Francisco Seals, whose city was about five times the size of the Oaks town of 67,000 when the rivalry began. The Seals story (with their five PCL titles, multiple DiMaggios and Lefty O Doul and hit-crazed Smead Jolley) may be more commonly told, but the Oaks are every bit as much a part of baseball history.
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