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kairos12

(13,248 posts) Sat Apr 27, 2019, 10:44 PM Apr 2019

In the 1928 World Series the Yankees

swept the Cardinals in 4 games.

Gehrig batted .545
Ruth batted .625

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In the 1928 World Series the Yankees (Original Post) kairos12 Apr 2019 OP

Aha! I finally noticed a kairos baseball trivia thread in the baseball forum True Dough Apr 2019 #1

Today, their arms would fall off. demosincebirth Apr 2019 #3

In the 2005 ALCS (Chicago versus Anaheim), only 5 pitchers were used by the White Sox... Moostache Apr 2019 #2

True Dough

(20,257 posts)

1. Aha! I finally noticed a kairos baseball trivia thread in the baseball forum

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Sat Apr 27, 2019, 10:50 PM

Apr 2019

which I don't normally frequent (I happened to catch the thread title after clicking "Latest posts."

So I looked up the series and did you know -- you probably did -- that the Yankees only used three pitchers in the entire series???
Such a different era. There's no way in today's game that three pitchers complete a four-game series!

demosincebirth

(12,740 posts)

3. Today, their arms would fall off.

Reply to True Dough (Reply #1)

Sun Apr 28, 2019, 01:57 AM

Apr 2019

Moostache

(10,163 posts)

2. In the 2005 ALCS (Chicago versus Anaheim), only 5 pitchers were used by the White Sox...

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Sat Apr 27, 2019, 11:06 PM

Apr 2019

They included only 2/3rds of one inning from the bullpen as the 4 starters went the distance 4 times and pitched into the 9th in the 5th...

Mark Buehrle
Jose Contreras
Neal Cotts
Freddy Garcia
Jon Garland

Not quite the Series, but the Sox did go on to take that over the Astros in 4 straight for their first Title since the 1917 team, this happening a year after the Red Sox had broken their own lengthy draught...

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