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Pedro Martinez pitches 9 perfect innings vs Padres
June 3 1995, In a scoreless tie, Expo hurler Pedro Martinez hurls nine perfect innings against the Padres. After Montreal goes ahead in the top of the tenth inning, the 23 year-old Dominican right-hander gives up a leadoff double to Bip Roberts in the bottom of the frame but gets the 1-0 victory when Mel Rojas secures the final three outs for a save. Martinez becomes the second pitcher in history, after Harvey Haddix, to have a perfect game broken up in extra innings.
Pedro Martinez emerged from the shadow of his big brother Ramon, also a pitcher in the major leagues, to become the best pitcher in baseball in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In his fifth major league start, on April 13, 1994, Martinez took a perfect game into the 8th inning and lost a no-hitter in the 9th. In the 1999 American League Division Series against Cleveland, nursing a sore back, Martinez came in from the bullpen to pitch six no-hit innings and lead Boston to a victory in Game Five. The right-hander won three Cy Young Awards and four ERA titles before the age of 31.
Best Season, 1999
In a league that averaged 5.07 earned runs per game, Pedro Martinez was stingly — spinning a 2.07 ERA. He won the triple crown (23 wins, 313 K's, ERA title), walking just 37 batters and surrendering only nine homers in more than 213 innings. In consecutive starts in May, he fanned 15 batters in each game. Thirteen times he fanned at least 10 batters, and he carried a no-hitter into the 7th inning or later three times. In the All-Star Game at Fenway Park, Martinez was named MVP after he pitched two hitless innings and struck out five of the six batters he faced. At Yankee Stadium in September, Pedro set a record by striking out 17 New York batters, winning 3-1 on a one-hitter. The lanky right-hander won his second Cy Young Award and was second in MVP voting to Ivan Rodriguez. In the playoffs, he allowed five hits in 17 innings, fanning 31, while allowing no runs, despite a sore back.
Facts and Figures:
Pedro Martinez finished second in Cy Young voting in both 1998 (to Roger Clemens) and 2002 (behind Barry Zito).
In 1999, Martinez captured the pitching Triple Crown, leading the AL in wins (23), strikeouts (313), and ERA (2.07)... Six times, Martinez has posted an ERA under 2.50 runs per game (1997, 1999-2003)... In 1993, Pedro relieved his brother Ramon while with the Dodgers, marking the first time a brother had relieved his brother since Rick and Mickey Mahler did it for the Braves in 1979... Martinez joins Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Randy Johnson, and Roger Clemens as the only pitchers to win the Cy Young Award in both leagues.
On June 30, 1997, Canada's two major league teams met in the regular season for the first time. Pedro Martinez grabbed the spotlight for the Montreal Expos, firing a three-hit, 3-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays.
On April 17, 2006, Pedro Martinez notched his 200th career victory and became just the second pitcher to win that milestone game while a member of the New York Mets. The first was Orel Hershiser.
Did you know?
June 3, 1932 - in Shibe Park, Tony Lazzeri blasts a grand slam to complete his natural cycle, with his four hits being accomplished in sequential order: single, double, triple, home run. This rare and amazing feat is overshadowed by Lou Gehrig becomes the first player to hit 4 home runs in the same game. Gehrig, narrowly, misses a 5th homerun when Al Simmons snags a line drive at the wall.
TRIVIA:
Which Hall of Famer made his National League debut on the first day players were required to take their gloves with them when they left the field at the end of each half inning?
Hint: #1 In Rookie-of-the-Year voting, he finished behind a teammate who would go on to play professional basketball.
Hint: #2 He is in the five-hundred-home-run club yet never hit as many as fifty home runs in any individual season.
June 3, 1918 -- Dutch Leonard, facing only 28 batters, tosses his second career no-hitter when he holds the Detroit Tigers hitless in the Red Sox' 5-0 victory at Navin Field. 'Hub' had also pitched a no-no against the Browns two seasons ago at Fenway Park.
June 3, 1925, Eddie Collins of the Chicago White Sox collects his 3,000th major league hit. The future Hall of Famer singles against Detroit’s Harry "Rip" Collins, who is not related to the star second baseman. The White Sox end up defeating the Tigers, 12-7. Listen to Eddie during the HOF Induction in 1939
June 3, 1955 At Ebbets Field, Stan Musial hits the 300th home run of his career off Johnny Podres in a 12-5 loss to the Brooklyn Dodgers.
June 3, 1967 -- Harmon Killebrew launches the longest home run ever hit in Metropolitan Stadium, a 503-foot shot which travels deep in the second deck of the left-center field bleachers. Killebrew, said, "I think it was a fastball, up, that I hit. How can you compare homers? This one felt good, but then the one I hit in Detroit carried over the roof in left field." More or Harmon
June 3, 1975 - With 4,129 fans in attendance on a Tuesday night at the Oakland Coliseum, Hank Aaron connects for a double off Jim Perry in the 1st inning. The hit is career #3,631 for Hank and he passes Stan Musial and moves into 2nd place, at the time, on the all-time hits list.
June 3, 2000, Sparky Anderson & Dave Concepcion were inducted into the Reds Hall of Fame. "Twenty-five years ago, I knew how great they were," said Anderson, who also won a World Series in Detroit. "But I realize now the greatest bunch of people I have ever seen in any professional sport was the 1975-76 Reds because they were so professional and knew how to go, about winning and knew how to act." Anderson threw a ceremonial first pitch to Hall of Fame catcher Johnny Bench, a lob that made it on the fly. Concepcion, who perfected the bounce throw to first base on artificial turf, then purposely skipped his first pitch to Bench on one hop.
Quote of the day:
Martinez once said of the hostile reception he received at Yankee Stadium: "It actually made me feel really, really good. I actually realized that I felt like somebody important, because I caught the attention of 60,000, plus you guys, plus the whole world, watching a guy that is, you reverse the time back 15 years ago, I was sitting under a mango tree without 50 cents to pay for a bus. And I was the center of attention of the whole city of New York. I thank God for that, and you know what? I don't regret one bit what they do out there."
Milestones
Birthdays:Highlights: Jim Gentile | Debuts:Notable: Freddie Patek |
Final Games:Highlights: Ken Reitz | Passings:Notable: Jimmy Piersall |
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