{"id":21111,"date":"2012-06-29T08:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seamheads.com\/?p=21111"},"modified":"2012-06-29T08:21:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T15:21:00","slug":"medio-siglo-del-primer-no-hitter-de-sandy-koufax-half-a-century-from-sandy-koufaxs-first-no-hitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/29\/medio-siglo-del-primer-no-hitter-de-sandy-koufax-half-a-century-from-sandy-koufaxs-first-no-hitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Medio siglo del primer no-hitter de Sandy Koufax. (Half a century from Sandy Koufax&#8217;s first no-hitter)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cualquier aficionado al b&#233;isbol tal vez recuerde este juego. Casi seguro cualquier fan&#225;tico de los Dodgers si lo ubica en su memoria. Para un cultor de Sanford Koufax, al m&#225;s genuino estilo de Humberto Acosta, resultar&#237;a un sacrilegio permitir que la amnesia borrara ese momento cuando Koufax empezaba a dar muestras contundentes de su presencia monticular.<\/p>\n<p>El 30 de junio de 1962 Koufax subi&#243; al morrito de Chavez Ravine para enfrentar a los novicios Mets de Nueva York. La campa&#241;a anterior hab&#237;a experimentado su primer registro notable 18-13. Koufax llegaba&#160; a ese juego con marca de 10-4 para los ocupantes del segundo lugar dela LigaNacional.Por los Mets Bob Miller soltar&#237;a las serpentinas.<\/p>\n<p>Koufax no estuvo tan dominante como en sus no-hitters posteriores. Concedi&#243; cinco boletos y escap&#243; de varias situaciones apremiantes. A&#250;n as&#237;, se las arregl&#243; para ponchar 13 contrarios.<\/p>\n<p>El primer inning se lo llev&#243; a paso de conga. En el segundo pas&#243; su primer susto cuando Frank Thomas bate&#243; un roletazo invisible al hueco entre tercera y short. El torpedero Maury Wills corri&#243; hacia su derecha, agarr&#243; la pelota con el guante de rev&#233;s y lanz&#243; a primera para sacar al lento Thomas<\/p>\n<p>Los Dodgers se fueron adelante en el propio primer inning mediante triple de Willie Davis, sencillos de Tommy Davis y Frank Howard con un boleto en el medio, doble de dos carreras de John Roseboro y sencillo de Larry Burright. Howard agreg&#243; cuadrangular en el&#160; s&#233;ptimo inning.<\/p>\n<p>En el sexto episodio Koufax vivi&#243; otro momento escalofriante ante el dos veces campe&#243;n bate dela LigaNacionalRichie Ashburn qui&#233;n descarg&#243; un linietazo al jard&#237;n izquierdo donde Tommy Davis perdi&#243; la pelota moment&#225;neamente en las luces pero luego se recuper&#243; para completar una espl&#233;ndida atrapada.<\/p>\n<p>Koufax hab&#237;a caminado a Ashburn y a Felix Mantilla en los primeros innings, ninguno lleg&#243; a segunda base. Como para ponerle un toque de suspenso al juego concedi&#243; un boleto en cada uno de los tres episodios finales. Camin&#243; a Thomas en el s&#233;ptimo y a Elio Chac&#243;n en el octavo.<\/p>\n<p>En el noveno camin&#243; al zurdo Gene Woodling, un sorpresivo bateador emergente para iniciar el episodio. Con Joe Christopher llamado a correr por Woodling, el siempre peligroso Ashburn larg&#243; una l&#237;nea hac&#237;a la linea del jard&#237;n izquierdo que sali&#243; de foul a &#250;ltimo momento. Entonces solt&#243; un roletazo que tom&#243; Wills para forzar a Christopher en la intermedia.<\/p>\n<p>Luego Rod Kanehl entr&#243; a la caja de bateo y en cuenta de dos strikes bate&#243; un saltar&#237;n por tercera base que tom&#243; Jim Gilliam y forz&#243; a Ashburn en segunda base. El &#250;ltimo out lleg&#243; unos momentos despu&#233;s cuando Mantilla conect&#243; un rodado de botes altos por los predios de Wills qui&#233;n se ech&#243; hacia atr&#225;s y atrap&#243; la pelota sobre su cabeza en el segundo bote, luego solt&#243; r&#225;pido a primera y se concret&#243; el out 27. Koufax lograba el primero de sus 4 no-hitters. M&#225;s adelante en aquella temporada fue colocado en la lista de incapacitados por problemas de circulaci&#243;n en el dedo &#237;ndice de su mano izquierda. Termin&#243; con marca de 14-7.<\/p>\n<p>Alfonso L. Tusa C.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>English translation<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It could be that most of baseball regular fans remember this game. Almost for sure that every Dodgers&#8217; fan has it in his\/her memory. For a great follower of Sanford Koufax like the venezuelan&#160; sports journalist Humberto Acosta, it would be a monstrous sin to forget that moment when Koufax began to show his best performances as a pitcher.<\/p>\n<p>On June 30<sup>th<\/sup>, 1962 Koufax climbed Dodger Stadium&#8217;s mound before the New York Mets. In 1961, he had experienced his first remarkable record, 18-13. Koufax arrived to that game with 10 wins and 4 losses for the team at second place in the National League. Bob Miller would start for the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Koufax wasn`t as impressive as in his future no-hitters. He walked 5 and could escape from some difficult situations. Despite of all of that he still could get 13 struckouts.<\/p>\n<p>Koufax retired the first inning the perfect way. He had his first frightening experience in the second inning. Frank Thomas hit a sharp grounder toward the hole between second and third base. Maury Wills ran to his right, made a backhanded stop and threw Thomas out at first.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers scored in the first inning through a Willie Davis triple, singles by Tommy Davis and Frank Howard with a walk in between, a two-run double by John Roseboro and a Larry Burright single. Howard added a home run in the seventh inning.<\/p>\n<p>In the sixth inning Koufax experienced another terrifying moment before the two time National League batting champ Richie Ashburn who hit a sharp line drive to left field where Tommy Davis lost the ball for a while in the lights but the he recovered to complete a splendid running catch.<\/p>\n<p>Koufax had walked Ashburn and Felix Mantilla early in the game, none of them advanced to second base. He passed Thomas in the seventh frame and Elio Chac&#243;n in the eighth, none of them moved up.<\/p>\n<p>Koufax walked Gene Woodling in the ninth frame, a surprising lefthanded pinch hitter to begin the inning. With Joe Chriostopher inserted as pinch runner, the ever-dangerous Ashburn hit a line drive to left field line that curved foul at the last moment. He then hit a grounder to short stop that Wills handled to force Christopher out at second base.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards Rod Kanehl hit a two-strike bouncer to third base that Jim Gilliam gloved and forced Ashburn out at second. Mantilla hit a high hopper to short stop in a 2-1 count, Wills took the ball high above his head and threw the ball to first base to complete the last out. Koufax got the first of his 4 no-hitters. Later in that season he was sidelined because of a circulation problem in his left index finger. He finished the year with a 14-7 record.<\/p>\n<p>Alfonso L. Tusa C.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Alfonso&#8217;s work has been featured in Venezuel&#8217;s daily newspaper, El Nacional and in the magazine Gente en Ambiente, and he has collaborated on several articles for newspapers, including the daily paper Tal Cual. He has also written four books and some biographies for SABR&#8217;s BioProject.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cualquier aficionado al b&#233;isbol tal vez recuerde este juego. Casi seguro cualquier fan&#225;tico de los Dodgers si lo ubica en su memoria. Para un cultor de Sanford Koufax, al m&#225;s genuino estilo de Humberto Acosta, resultar&#237;a un sacrilegio permitir que la amnesia borrara ese momento cuando Koufax empezaba a dar muestras contundentes de su presencia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[19552,16361,1744,19549,4722,19553,19551,2700,17943,5013,16363,16635,19548,17274,239,1768,19550,19554,4489,4484],"class_list":["post-21111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bob-miller","tag-campe","tag-chavez-ravine","tag-cinco-boletos","tag-dos-veces","tag-escap","tag-espl","tag-frank-thomas","tag-genuino","tag-guante","tag-hueco","tag-jard","tag-john-roseboro","tag-lanz","tag-maury-wills","tag-sandy-koufax","tag-serpentinas","tag-soltar","tag-tommy-davis","tag-willie-davis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}