Last Pitcher to start both games of a double header

[kairos12]

Wilbur Wood. !973. He started both games against the Yankees and got knocked out in both. He ended the day with 2 losses.

[True Dough]

1. With initials like WW

you'd think he would have got both wins!

[kairos12]

2. Very good!

[regnaD kciN]

7. He did that once as well, earlier the same season...

In May, the White Sox had an extra-inning game that had to be halted due to curfew, and was scheduled to be completed as part of a pseudo-doubleheader. On May 28, Wood “started” the game-in-progress, and pitched five innings before his team scored the winning run in the 21st. He then started the second game, and went all the way in another victory. Overall line: 14 innings pitched, 6 hits allowed, 0 runs allowed.

[True Dough]

8. Cool!

Great day at "the office." Thanks for adding that.

[Ohiogal]

3. I wonder why

they had him start both games?

[kairos12]

4. Maybe because he was a knuckleballer and could give the rest of the staff a break.

[beachbum bob]

5. He had an incredible knuckleball and was for being hit by a linedrive,

He would have pitched to age 45 easily. I was lucky to see him play fit the Sox. In one season he won 24 games and lost 20, the white Sox had little run scoring punch, who knows how Wood would have performed elsewhere. Easily a 30 win in season type of pitcher.

[regnaD kciN]

6. Wood was a knuckleballer, which creates far less arm stress...

...thus allowing a pitcher to throw a lot more innings than would usually be the case. In that same season, Wood was a 24-game winner…and a 20-game loser.

One thing I remember most about WW was that, when he came in to pitch, the organist at Comiskey would introduce him with the Woody Woodpecker theme.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. When Wood Had His Release Dead On...

...I'm not sure how anybody hit that thing!
So much sudden drop