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JackWESQ
JackWESQ Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭
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Without resorting to any website or any kind of baseball reference material, who here can name:

1. Last pitcher to toss 10 shutouts ...
2. Last pitcher to record 20 complete games ...

... in one season.

/s/ JackWESQ
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  • Alfonz24
    Alfonz24 Posts: 3,125 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Bob Gibson
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  • BunchOBull
    BunchOBull Posts: 6,188 ✭✭✭
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    Without cheating...this is hard. I'll throw out, and be wrong, with Dwight Gooden. I have no clue why I chose this answer.
    Collector of most things Frank Thomas. www.BigHurtHOF.com
  • BobaFett72
    BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
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    bert blylevn? for the CG... gotta be someone from the 80's.

    shutouts...70's. no guess.
  • jdip9
    jdip9 Posts: 1,894 ✭✭✭
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    1. Bob Gibson?
    2. Christy Matthewson?
  • BunchOBull
    BunchOBull Posts: 6,188 ✭✭✭
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    Just looked it up...Gooden didn't quite make the cut...almost.
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  • vintagetoppsguy
    vintagetoppsguy Posts: 871
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    I'll say Orel Hershiser and I have no clue why I chose this answer either.
  • BobaFett72
    BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
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    Hershiser is a good guess though... from his monster season.
  • BobaFett72
    BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
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    alas, its not gooden or hershiser!

    i just checked, im happy with my answer for CG, even though its wrong lol
  • stown
    stown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
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    J. R. Richard

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    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • JackWESQ
    JackWESQ Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭
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    My apologies for the confusion.

    They're two separate questions. Not, the last player to toss 10 shutouts AND have 20 complete games. But ...

    Question 1: Last player to have 10 shutouts.

    Question 2: Last player to have 20 complete games.

    In my opinion, each question is incredibly difficult.

    /s/ JackWESQ
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  • itzagoner
    itzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
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    pretty sure #2 is Fernando

    guessing Nolan Ryan for #1
  • jdip9
    jdip9 Posts: 1,894 ✭✭✭
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    great questions

    just looked it up...not a chance anyone gets the shutout answer without looking it up....both answers are much more recent than I would have guessed...
  • WinPitcher
    WinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
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    I recollect that John Tudor had 11 or 12 shutouts back in the 80's with that Cardinals, Ill say him


    as for thr CG Ill go with Blyleven in the 80's as well


    Steve
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  • stown
    stown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
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    << <i>In my opinion, each question is incredibly difficult. >>



    Really?

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    But that does make more sense.

    I think Fernado was the last one to pitch 20 complete games and Orel because of the shutout streak.
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • JackWESQ
    JackWESQ Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭
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    Yup.

    Fernando has 20 complete games in 1986. Fernando?! Ewwwww!

    And John Tudor had 10 shutouts in 1985. Tudor finished the year 21-8. Crazy thing is that Tudor started 1-7. Which means he went 20-1 over his final 21 decisions. Crazy.

    And by way of perspective, 2 shutout led the AL in 2006 and 2007 while 3 shutouts led the NL in 2006 and 2007. Brandon Webb led the NL with 4 complete games in 2007 and Roy Halladay had 7 this year. Things such have changed.

    /s/ JackWESQ
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  • BunchOBull
    BunchOBull Posts: 6,188 ✭✭✭
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    Funny what a couple of decades can do.
    Collector of most things Frank Thomas. www.BigHurtHOF.com
  • BobaFett72
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    bert was the last in the AL though image
  • TomGshotput
    TomGshotput Posts: 1,358
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    Looked it up without bothering to guess

    Interesting to see Rick Langford with 75 complete games from age 27 to 30 -- and zero after age 30
    Tom
  • stown
    stown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
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    Fernando was a stud back in the day.

    The 'Stros use to be in the West, so we played them 12 times (?) a year. Watched him every time I could since them were pre-interweb days. I even remember one of his last games was against us. We rocked him for like 4 or 5 runs, all homeruns, and you could just tell it was over...

    But in his prime, a total and complete horse. They don't make 'em like that anymore...
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • baseballjeff
    baseballjeff Posts: 1,085 ✭✭✭
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    Jim Perry in 1970?
  • PasadenaMudSlide
    PasadenaMudSlide Posts: 732
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    Drysdale.

    Ryan.
  • Clemaz
    Clemaz Posts: 1,422
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    1. Steve Carlton
    2.Phil Niekro
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