Bob Gibson incredible stat
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Theses are career batting averages against Gibson.
Ernie Banks 229
Hank Aaron 215
Roberto Clemente 208
Willie May's 196.
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1.12 era 13 shutouts with 9 loses in '68. How is that even possible!
2.18 era with 13 loses in '69
No wonder he looked like an angry guy and was beast on the mound.
My coworker said: hit a homer off gibby, next time around you get plunked
Yes that was the case.
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You run into other great pitchers and lose one to nothing, two to one, give up 3 hits and lose on errors.
Here's the rally, walk, steal second, move to third on an out to right, score on a sacrifice fly out. Pitch 8 inning even when behind. Go against a bunch of .240 hitters on other teams. I grew up watching these types of games.
Where does Pete rose rank against Bob Gibson? Who had the most success against Gibby?
In 1968, he was never knocked out of a game. Pulled for a PH, sure. Knocked out? Nope. Incredible.
After the 1968 season MLB lowered the mound because of Gibson. When you can effect changes in a game played for over 100 years that’s an accomplishment. I rate it higher than the PGA trying to make golf courses “Tiger Proof” in his prime.
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That might give ya some incentive when rounding the bases in a home run trot, to maybe just stop at third base and say to the ump, that's all i'm taking. LOL
MLB’s official reason for lowering the mound was because they wanted more offense. All pitchers had the upper hand on hitters because of the raised mound. It was a good rule change. The strike zone was too big also. Imagine trying to catch up with a Randy Johnson heater at shoulder height? That’s what hitters faced in 1968.
Not sure, but didn't they raise the mound shortly after the 1961 Mantle/Maris home run chase year?
Not sure again, but didn't Yaz win the batting title at .301 one year (1968 maybe), and the runnerup hit .290?
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Yes it was 1968 where Yaz was the only AL player to hit over .300 for the year. Ironically, in the NL where Gibson resided, 5 players hit over .300
Rose: 132 PA, 35 hits, .307
Edit: 1 HR. Pete charges the mound after getting plunked, lol
I think Rose had good success against Koufax as well...but, of course, not as many PAs.
They did not raise the mound after the Mantle/Maris race. Blamed homers on expansion.
Agreed, they didn’t raise the mound after ‘61.
In ‘68, pitchers dominated. Gibson, as has been mentioned. Denny McLain won 31 games in the AL. Several guys with ERAs under 2.00 . Yaz won the AL batting title at .301 . It was after that year that the mound was lowered and while Gibson was the best of the bunch, it wasn’t all about him.
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Something called a “Dave Rader” batted .484 in his career against Gibson.
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I cant find stats, but I copied this from an interview I found that Pete Rose did in 2014.
.....the guy who gave me the most trouble was Koufax,” Rose proclaimed, speaking of the Dodgers’ great left-hander Sandy Koufax.
Rose had a lot of company there as Koufax took a while before coming into his own but blossomed just as Rose arrived on the major league scene. Koufax’s last four years before retiring prematurely with an arthritic elbow he went 25-5 with a 1.88 ERA, 19-5 with a 1.74 ERA, 26-8 with a 2.04 and 27-9 with a 1.73 ERA.
Rose batted .175 against Koufax.
“I couldn’t hit him with a boat oar,” he said.
Because Gibson in 1968, due to almost never being pulled and pitching through extra innings, pitched 304.2 innings in 34 starts, which is 4 outs in an entire season short of 9 IP per start. When you figure 4 of those games were 8 inning complete games, he pitched enough to average a complete game for thr entire season, plus a few outs for good measure.
Plus 110 plate appearances, 12th on the team.
Plus 3 more World Series 9 inning complete games, just for good measure.
Couldn't beat them 68 Tigers though...
Gibson beat them 2 out of 3. Just sayin'.
Lowering the mound was also due to McClain. I love the Rose quote. Wilie Stargell once reportedly said that hitting Koufax was like drinking coffee with a fork. Mantle also said Koufax was unhittable. For those four or five years, he was.
Thanks for clearing that up for me. I once read it was because of Gibson or mentioned the reason the mound was lowered. Those things stick in memories for many years.
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People remember the pitching mound being lowered in 1969, but tend to forget that the strike zone was changed as well. Both were done because offense in 1968 was so anemic.