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Fernando Valenzuela has passed away

BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 11,825 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Age 63. Dodgers/MLB will honor him during WS.

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    coolstanleycoolstanley Posts: 3,990 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Probably the best player on that 1981 Championship Dodgers team. RIP.

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    stevekstevek Posts: 32,783 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No offense but Fernando Valenzuela never had a healthy look about him. Dying at the age of 63 doesn't surprise me at all.

    RIP

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    craig44craig44 Posts: 13,225 ✭✭✭✭✭

    RIP Fernando. very popular player for a long time

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

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    GrooGroo Posts: 312 ✭✭✭
    edited October 23, 2024 5:29AM

    :'( My Mom attended his no hitter and talked about it until she passed.

    RIP man for a moment or so in time you excited nearly a whole continant with somethng both exciting and truly positive. Only a tiny few in recorded history have ever done that.

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    BrickBrick Posts: 5,003 ✭✭✭✭✭

    RIP

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    GroceryRackPackGroceryRackPack Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭✭✭

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    bgrbgr Posts: 5,070 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I’ll remember him trotting station to station in his windbreaker… like a boss.

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    JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 12,854 ✭✭✭✭✭

    RIP

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    LandrysFedoraLandrysFedora Posts: 2,623 ✭✭✭✭✭

    RIP

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    ElMagoStrikeZoneElMagoStrikeZone Posts: 2,299 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The one game divisional playoff in 1980 between the Dodgers and Astros featured a 19-year kid in mop up duty after Lasorda insisted on using Dave Goltz, a high-priced free agent, as his starter that day. What a letdown to get toasted after a wild 3-game sweep got them there. I got to witness a live introduction to Fernando before the Mania set in. His 1981 [split]season was, by today's standards, virtually impossible.

    RIP

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    EstilEstil Posts: 7,313 ✭✭✭✭✭

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Z5cWP4IqQ

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    galaxy27galaxy27 Posts: 10,607 ✭✭✭✭✭

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    coolstanleycoolstanley Posts: 3,990 ✭✭✭✭✭

    8-0 with 5 shutouts and a 0.50 era. Wow :o

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    TabeTabe Posts: 6,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Fernando in the playoffs - 5-1 record with a 1.98 ERA. That includes a complete game win in game 3 of the 1981 World Series where he threw 147 pitches. Walked 7, gave up 9 hits, gave up 4 runs - and still threw a complete game.

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    TabeTabe Posts: 6,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @galaxy27 said:

    In his first 8 career starts in 1976, Mark Fidrych averaged MORE than 9 IP per start. 73.333 innings in 8 starts. He had two different 11 inning complete games in that stretch.

    Managers sure were different back then.

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