08-05-2025, 07:40 PM
(08-05-2025, 07:15 PM)BobK Wrote: Mathewson
Hubbell
Marichal
Perry
Mike McCormick?
I would think the Mathewson and Hubbell may not count as "SF Giants" for this question...
Eric
"the older we get the better we were"
Outside Topic Sports trivia thread 2025
I was going to suggest Halicki and Barr. First Giants game I ever saw was Jim Barr, 1973 Giants vs. Pirates, 8-0 win, McCovey hit an HR...he was already my favorite player, but WOW. I was eight years old, still remember the feeling of seeing that brobdingnagian field for the first time. Barr used to throw this really slow curveball and I saw Stargell swing so hard, he spun around and fell on his keister. To an eight year old, that was GREAT! Stargell had two errors, a rough day for him. Saw Garry Maddox make an amazing sliding catch in CF, Bobby Bonds stole a base, Barr pitched a complete game two-hitter. Might have been the best game he ever pitched. Pittsburgh had a ton of stars (Stargell, Hebner, Clemente, Sanguillen, etc.) and beat the Giants in the division playoff the year before.
Halicki threw a no-hitter. 6'7", brobdingnagian guy.
1987 San Francisco Giants. Mike LaCoss led the pitching staff with 13 wins. Downs had 12, Garrelts 11, Hammaker 10. Ten separate pitchers started games for the Giants, including all those mentioned plus Roger Mason, Rick Reuschel, Jim Gott, Dravecky, Krukow and Davis. Overall team ERA was 3.70, best in the NL.
They also had a ton of power. Every position group except second base hit at least 20 home runs, including 1B (Clark, 35), SS (Uribe, Speier and Matt Williams 24), 3B (Mitchell, Brown 21), CF (Chili Davis, Milner 28), LF, Leonard, Aldrete 27), RF (Maldonado Aldrete 22). They had 14 pinch hit home runs, and Don Robinson and Jim Gott hit HRs as pitchers. 205 total home runs.
They were third in the NL in defense and fourth in the NL in scoring. All told, 90 wins, and a precursor of the 1989 pennant that would come two years later.
In 1986 and 1988, that same group took on the Cardinals in one of the more entertaining donnybrooks. Even the senior citizen managers (Roger Craig and Whitey Herzog) got into it. Stanford's Mike Aldrete plays a role in barely avoiding a headhunting pitch.
St. Louis Cardinal San Francisco Giant Brawl '86
Lose sweat, make history.
Halicki threw a no-hitter. 6'7", brobdingnagian guy.
(08-02-2025, 09:42 PM)Giants Wrote:(08-01-2025, 10:15 AM)Mick Wrote: Only one team in MLB history satisfies all three of these conditions:
1. Won at least 90 games.
2. Won the league or their division.
3. The most games won by a starting pitcher was 13 or fewer.
Which team and year?
Sounds like the Tampa Rays. Year? Early 2010’s?
1987 San Francisco Giants. Mike LaCoss led the pitching staff with 13 wins. Downs had 12, Garrelts 11, Hammaker 10. Ten separate pitchers started games for the Giants, including all those mentioned plus Roger Mason, Rick Reuschel, Jim Gott, Dravecky, Krukow and Davis. Overall team ERA was 3.70, best in the NL.
They also had a ton of power. Every position group except second base hit at least 20 home runs, including 1B (Clark, 35), SS (Uribe, Speier and Matt Williams 24), 3B (Mitchell, Brown 21), CF (Chili Davis, Milner 28), LF, Leonard, Aldrete 27), RF (Maldonado Aldrete 22). They had 14 pinch hit home runs, and Don Robinson and Jim Gott hit HRs as pitchers. 205 total home runs.
They were third in the NL in defense and fourth in the NL in scoring. All told, 90 wins, and a precursor of the 1989 pennant that would come two years later.
In 1986 and 1988, that same group took on the Cardinals in one of the more entertaining donnybrooks. Even the senior citizen managers (Roger Craig and Whitey Herzog) got into it. Stanford's Mike Aldrete plays a role in barely avoiding a headhunting pitch.
St. Louis Cardinal San Francisco Giant Brawl '86
Lose sweat, make history.
Audaces fortuna iuvat
I was going to suggest Halicki and Barr. First Giants game I ever saw was Jim Barr, 1973 Giants vs. Pirates, 8-0 win, McCovey hit an HR...he was already my favorite player, but WOW. I was eight years old, still remember the feeling of seeing that brobdingnagian field for the first time. Barr used to throw this really slow curveball and I saw Stargell swing so hard, he spun around and fell on his keister. To an eight year old, that was GREAT! Stargell had two errors, a rough day for him. Saw Garry Maddox make an amazing sliding catch in CF, Bobby Bonds stole a base, Barr pitched a complete game two-hitter. Might have been the best game he ever pitched. Pittsburgh had a ton of stars (Stargell, Hebner, Clemente, Sanguillen, etc.) and beat the Giants in the division playoff the year before.
Halicki threw a no-hitter. 6'7", brobdingnagian guy.
1987 San Francisco Giants. Mike LaCoss led the pitching staff with 13 wins. Downs had 12, Garrelts 11, Hammaker 10. Ten separate pitchers started games for the Giants, including all those mentioned plus Roger Mason, Rick Reuschel, Jim Gott, Dravecky, Krukow and Davis. Overall team ERA was 3.70, best in the NL.
They also had a ton of power. Every position group except second base hit at least 20 home runs, including 1B (Clark, 35), SS (Uribe, Speier and Matt Williams 24), 3B (Mitchell, Brown 21), CF (Chili Davis, Milner 28), LF, Leonard, Aldrete 27), RF (Maldonado Aldrete 22). They had 14 pinch hit home runs, and Don Robinson and Jim Gott hit HRs as pitchers. 205 total home runs.
They were third in the NL in defense and fourth in the NL in scoring. All told, 90 wins, and a precursor of the 1989 pennant that would come two years later.
In 1986 and 1988, that same group took on the Cardinals in one of the more entertaining donnybrooks. Even the senior citizen managers (Roger Craig and Whitey Herzog) got into it. Stanford's Mike Aldrete plays a role in barely avoiding a headhunting pitch.
St. Louis Cardinal San Francisco Giant Brawl '86
Lose sweat, make history.
Halicki threw a no-hitter. 6'7", brobdingnagian guy.
(08-02-2025, 09:42 PM)Giants Wrote:(08-01-2025, 10:15 AM)Mick Wrote: Only one team in MLB history satisfies all three of these conditions:
1. Won at least 90 games.
2. Won the league or their division.
3. The most games won by a starting pitcher was 13 or fewer.
Which team and year?
Sounds like the Tampa Rays. Year? Early 2010’s?
1987 San Francisco Giants. Mike LaCoss led the pitching staff with 13 wins. Downs had 12, Garrelts 11, Hammaker 10. Ten separate pitchers started games for the Giants, including all those mentioned plus Roger Mason, Rick Reuschel, Jim Gott, Dravecky, Krukow and Davis. Overall team ERA was 3.70, best in the NL.
They also had a ton of power. Every position group except second base hit at least 20 home runs, including 1B (Clark, 35), SS (Uribe, Speier and Matt Williams 24), 3B (Mitchell, Brown 21), CF (Chili Davis, Milner 28), LF, Leonard, Aldrete 27), RF (Maldonado Aldrete 22). They had 14 pinch hit home runs, and Don Robinson and Jim Gott hit HRs as pitchers. 205 total home runs.
They were third in the NL in defense and fourth in the NL in scoring. All told, 90 wins, and a precursor of the 1989 pennant that would come two years later.
In 1986 and 1988, that same group took on the Cardinals in one of the more entertaining donnybrooks. Even the senior citizen managers (Roger Craig and Whitey Herzog) got into it. Stanford's Mike Aldrete plays a role in barely avoiding a headhunting pitch.
St. Louis Cardinal San Francisco Giant Brawl '86
Lose sweat, make history.
Audaces fortuna iuvat
08-06-2025, 11:44 AM
(08-06-2025, 10:57 AM)BobK Wrote: I was at Jack Sanford’s 16th straight win. 1962
As Buster said, “We are in the memory-making business”.
An added note to the Halicki no-hitter…
My then girlfriend (who didn’t know all the superstitions of the game) mentioned late in the game that she noticed the Mets didn’t have any hits. All the fans sitting around us glared at her as I whispered that she needed to stay quiet about that fact. Despite this faux pas, we married a couple years later. Now when we go to games, once each team has gotten a hit, she always says “there will not be a no-hitter today”.
(08-06-2025, 10:57 AM)BobK Wrote: I was at Jack Sanford’s 16th straight win. 1962
As Buster said, “We are in the memory-making business”.
An added note to the Halicki no-hitter…
My then girlfriend (who didn’t know all the superstitions of the game) mentioned late in the game that she noticed the Mets didn’t have any hits. All the fans sitting around us glared at her as I whispered that she needed to stay quiet about that fact. Despite this faux pas, we married a couple years later. Now when we go to games, once each team has gotten a hit, she always says “there will not be a no-hitter today”.
I'm going to guess Wilbur Wood, most losses.
EDIT: I looked them up, too interesting to wait.
The guy who led the 1970s in losses had a better collective ERA (3.22 that decade) than any SFG starting pitcher this year not named Robbie Ray or Landon Roupp.
EDIT: I looked them up, too interesting to wait.
The guy who led the 1970s in losses had a better collective ERA (3.22 that decade) than any SFG starting pitcher this year not named Robbie Ray or Landon Roupp.
Audaces fortuna iuvat
I'm going to guess Wilbur Wood, most losses.
EDIT: I looked them up, too interesting to wait.
The guy who led the 1970s in losses had a better collective ERA (3.22 that decade) than any SFG starting pitcher this year not named Robbie Ray or Landon Roupp.
EDIT: I looked them up, too interesting to wait.
The guy who led the 1970s in losses had a better collective ERA (3.22 that decade) than any SFG starting pitcher this year not named Robbie Ray or Landon Roupp.
Audaces fortuna iuvat
08-06-2025, 05:19 PM
Pitcher in the 50s is in the Hall of Fame
Pitcher in the 60s pitched one year for the Giants had a unflattering nickname
Pitcher in the 70s won over 200 games
Pitcher in the 60s pitched one year for the Giants had a unflattering nickname
Pitcher in the 70s won over 200 games
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