Con una basta<\/p>\n
Los juegos que se deciden con marcador 1-0 guardan una intensidad emocional, tras cada jugada que crece a trav\u00c3\u00a9s de los innings, el esfuerzo de los lanzadores es m\u00c3\u00a1s notorio y en cada jugada al campo reverbera la posibilidad de que alguna marfilada pueda estropear la magia de los pitchers.
\nEn \u00c3\u00a9pocas pasadas los lanzadores permanec\u00c3\u00adan en el mont\u00c3\u00adculo 9 y m\u00c3\u00a1s innings mientras defend\u00c3\u00adan su blanqueada. A partir de alg\u00c3\u00ban momento de los a\u00c3\u00b1os sesenta se empez\u00c3\u00b3 a considerar la posibilidad de que los excesos en los lanzamientos acabaran m\u00c3\u00a1s r\u00c3\u00a1pido con la carrera de un lanzador, partiendo de la tesis de que el acto de lanzar una pelota es un movimiento antinatural. As\u00c3\u00ad aparecen el conteo de los lanzamientos y la especializaci\u00c3\u00b3n de los pitchers relevistas.
\nEs cierto que al dosificar el esfuerzo de los pitchers se conservan mejor sus facultades en el tiempo, sin embargo a veces se exagera y no se deja que los pitchers terminen lo que comenzaron a\u00c3\u00ban cuando puedan sentirse en buenas condiciones de seguir, con lo cual se priva al b\u00c3\u00a9isbol de aquellas epopeyas monticulares de anta\u00c3\u00b1o. Como cuando Leon Cadore (Brooklyn Robins) y Joe Oeschger (Boston Braves) se enfrascaron en un duelo por 26 entradas el 01 de mayo de 1920. En una carta escrita a Jerome Holtzman, Cadore recordaba que una semana antes de ese juego, Oeschger y \u00c3\u00a9l hab\u00c3\u00adan tenido otro duelo de pitcheo que gan\u00c3\u00b3 Cadore 1-0 en once episodios. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Si me preguntan que efecto tuvo aquel juego de 26 innings en mi brazo, les dir\u00c3\u00a9 que no pude levantarlo por dos d\u00c3\u00adas. En el inning 20 el manager Wilbert Robinson me pregunt\u00c3\u00b3 si me estaba cansando\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.
\nPor su parte Oeschger dijo que se sinti\u00c3\u00b3 un poco cansado al final del juego que termin\u00c3\u00b3 1-1 debido a la caida de la noche. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Me benefici\u00c3\u00b3 mucho que pude retirar el s\u00c3\u00a9ptimo inning con s\u00c3\u00b3lo tres lanzamientos\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Antes de este juego hab\u00c3\u00ada lanzado un juego de 20 innings que termin\u00c3\u00b3 igualado 9-9 ante los Filis de Filadelfia el 30 de abril de 1919 y su pitcher Burleigh Grimes.
\nEl 02 de julio de 1933 los Gigantes de Nueva York vencieron 1-0 a los Cardenales de San Luis en PoloGrounds. Carl Hubbell lanz\u00c3\u00b3 los 18 episodios y se apunt\u00c3\u00b3 la victoria. Tex Carleton lanz\u00c3\u00b3 16 innings y Jesse Haines (1.2 innings), fue el pitcher derrotado. Hubbell se las ingeni\u00c3\u00b3 para ponchar a 12 y mantener la pelota en la zona de strike, a lo largo del desaf\u00c3\u00ado ning\u00c3\u00ban bateador se le embas\u00c3\u00b3 por boleto, he aqu\u00c3\u00ad una de las razones por las que muchos pitchers de anta\u00c3\u00b1o duraban m\u00c3\u00a1s en los juegos, ten\u00c3\u00adan un gran control y dominio de la zona de strike. S\u00c3\u00b3lo permiti\u00c3\u00b3 6 imparables. De acuerdo a Waite Hoyt la fuente de la destreza de Hubbell era su incomparable control en la curva, lo que le permit\u00c3\u00ada sorprender con su screwball.
\nEl 05 de junio de 1938 Andr\u00c3\u00a9s Julio Baez por el Pastora y L\u00c3\u00a1zaro Salazar por Gavilanes se enzarzaron en un ardoroso duelo que dur\u00c3\u00b3 20 episodios en el estadio El Lago. Baez aline\u00c3\u00b3 de quinto en el orden al bate por Pastora. Salazar fue el tercer madero de la alineaci\u00c3\u00b3n de Gavilanes. Pastora amenaz\u00c3\u00b3 en el segundo episodio cuando Manduco Portillo (c) se embas\u00c3\u00b3 por error del campocorto Luis Aparicio Ortega. Pedro Baez “Grillo A” sigui\u00c3\u00b3 con imparable. Pero una l\u00c3\u00adnea trepidante del dominicano Horacio Mart\u00c3\u00adnez (ss) fue atrapada hacia delante por el jardinero izquierdo Vidal L\u00c3\u00b3pez y dobl\u00c3\u00b3 en segunda a Portillo.
\nLa definici\u00c3\u00b3n lleg\u00c3\u00b3 en el cierre del vig\u00c3\u00a9simo episodio. Andr\u00c3\u00a9s Julio B\u00c3\u00a1ez despach\u00c3\u00b3 doblete entre left y centerfield. Domingo Barboza larg\u00c3\u00b3 otro doble para dejar en el terreno a Gavilanes. Barboza recuerda que luego del partido L\u00c3\u00a1zaro Salazar le dijo en broma que le hab\u00c3\u00ada puesto la bola porque pensaba que iba a tocar para arrimar a B\u00c3\u00a1ez a tercera.
\nEl encuentro dur\u00c3\u00b3 6 horas y 30 minutos. Andr\u00c3\u00a9s B\u00c3\u00a1ez enfrent\u00c3\u00b3 65 Gavilanes en 20 episodios, acept\u00c3\u00b3 5 imparables, concedi\u00c3\u00b3 4 boletos y recet\u00c3\u00b3 10 ponches, 5 de ellos ante Vidal L\u00c3\u00b3pez. Salazar le lanz\u00c3\u00b3 a 67 pastore\u00c3\u00b1os en 19 innings, acept\u00c3\u00b3 9 imparables, 1 carrera limpia, concedi\u00c3\u00b3 2 boletos y ponch\u00c3\u00b3 a 13.
\nOtro juego donde los pitchers mantuvieron la pizarra con el m\u00c3\u00adnimode anotaciones por m\u00c3\u00a1s de 15 episodios ocurri\u00c3\u00b3 el 06 de agosto de 1959 en Memorial Stadium. Billy O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Dell abri\u00c3\u00b3 por los Orioles, los Medias Blancas le hicieron una carrera en el tercero, luego lo relev\u00c3\u00b3 Hoyt Wilhelm en el noveno. Por los patiblancos abri\u00c3\u00b3 Billy Pierce y se mantuvo por 16 entradas en el morrito. Los orop\u00c3\u00a9ndolas le igualaron el juego en el cierre del octavo. O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Dell permiti\u00c3\u00b3 5 hits, concedi\u00c3\u00b3 4 boletos y ponch\u00c3\u00b3 1 en 8 innings. Wilhelm lanz\u00c3\u00b3 10 episodios sin permitir carreras, le dieron 2 hits, concedi\u00c3\u00b3 3 boletos y ponch\u00c3\u00b3 7. Pierce acept\u00c3\u00b3 11 imparables, concedi\u00c3\u00b3 3 boletos y ponch\u00c3\u00b3 7. Turk Lown lo relev\u00c3\u00b3 en el inning 17. En 2 innings acept\u00c3\u00b3 1 imparable y ponch\u00c3\u00b3 2.
\nUna de las batallas m\u00c3\u00a1s ardorosas que hayan desarrollado dos lanzadores ocurri\u00c3\u00b3 el 02 de julio de 1963. Juan Marichal abri\u00c3\u00b3 por los Gigantes de San Francisco y Warren Spahn por los Bravos de Milwaukee. Candlestick Park empez\u00c3\u00b3 a llenarse de suspenso cuando lleg\u00c3\u00b3 el cierre del noveno episodio y el juego segu\u00c3\u00ada 0-0. A partir de ese momento el manager Alvin Dark le avisaba a Marichal que si el juego segu\u00c3\u00ada lo sacar\u00c3\u00ada en el pr\u00c3\u00b3ximo inning. Cuando lleg\u00c3\u00b3 el episodio 14 Dark parec\u00c3\u00ada decidido a usar su bull pen. Marichal le hizo una observaci\u00c3\u00b3n, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00c2\u00bfUsted ve a ese hombre que est\u00c3\u00a1 lanzando por los Bravos? \u00c3\u2030l tiene 42 a\u00c3\u00b1os. Yo tengo 25. Si el puede seguir lanzando, yo tambi\u00c3\u00a9n\u00e2\u20ac\u009d . Willie Mays decidi\u00c3\u00b3 el juego con jonr\u00c3\u00b3n en el cierre del inning 16. Marichal lanz\u00c3\u00b3 16 entradas, permiti\u00c3\u00b3 8 imparables, 0 carreras, 4 boletos, 10 ponches. Spahn lanz\u00c3\u00b3 15.1 innings, 9 imparables, 1 carrera, 1 boleto, 2 ponches.
\nEste juego hizo recordar el \u00c3\u00baltimo donde dos lanzadores llevaron un blanqueo hasta el episodio d\u00c3\u00a9cimosexto. En aquella ocasi\u00c3\u00b3n Jack Harshman de los Medias Blancas de Chicago enfrent\u00c3\u00b3 a Al Aber de los Tigres de Detroit en el viejo Comiskey Park el 13 de agosto de 1954. Lo Medias Blancas ganaron 1-0 con triple de Orestes Mi\u00c3\u00b1oso a la derecha que remolc\u00c3\u00b3 a Nellie Fox desde primera base. Harshman lanz\u00c3\u00b3 16 entradas en blanco, 9 imparables, 12 ponches, 7 boletos. Aber trabaj\u00c3\u00b3 15.1 episodios, 1 carrera, 8 ponches, 3 boletos.
\nQuiz\u00c3\u00a1s el juego que recordaremos a continuaci\u00c3\u00b3n dista de ser un duelo individual de lanzadores, sin embargo es indudable la intensidad del forcejeo. El 15 de abril de 1968 los Mets de Nueva York se aparecieron por el Astrodome para enfrentar a los Astros. Don Wilson abri\u00c3\u00b3 por los siderales y Tom Seaver por los metropolitanos. Wilson resisti\u00c3\u00b3 9 episodios donde acept\u00c3\u00b3 5 imparables, 0 carreras, concedi\u00c3\u00b3 3 boletos, recet\u00c3\u00b3 5 ponches. Seaver aguant\u00c3\u00b3 10 entradas, permiti\u00c3\u00b3 2 imparables, 0 carreras, 0 boletos, recet\u00c3\u00b3 3 ponches. Jon Buzhardt (2 innings), Danny Coomb (2 innings), Jim Ray (7 innings) y Wade Blasingame (4 innings) (G), sucedieron a Wilson. Ron Taylor (1 inning), Cal Koonce (1 inning), Bill Short (1 inning), Dick Selma (.2 inning), Al Jackson (3 innings), Danny Frisella(2.1 innings), Les Rohr (2.1 innings) (P), relevaron a Seaver. Houston gan\u00c3\u00b3 1-0. El juego se decidi\u00c3\u00b3 en el episodio 21 por un error del campocorto Al Weis.
\nEl primero de septiembre de 1967, los Gigantes de San Francisco llegaron al Crosley Field para enfrentar a la novena de Cincinnati. Mel Queen abri\u00c3\u00b3 por los Rojos y Gaylord Perry por los Gigantes. Queen lanz\u00c3\u00b3 8.1 episodios sin permitir anotaciones, 8 imparables, 1 boleto, 10 ponches. Perry transit\u00c3\u00b3 16 entradas, 0 carreras, 10 imparables, 2 boletos, 12 ponches. Ted Abernathy (3.2 innings), Don Nottebart (5 innings), Bob Lee (3 innings) (P). Relevaron por los Rojos. Frank Linzy (5 innings) se apunt\u00c3\u00b3 la Victoria para los Gigantes. Jim Ray Hart anot\u00c3\u00b3 la carrera de la victoria impulsado por boleto de Dick Groat en el inning 21.
\nEn la actualidad presenciar un juego donde el pitcher abridor complete 9 entradas es algo inesperado. Si alguno llegase a lanzar m\u00c3\u00a1s de 10 episodios estar\u00c3\u00adamos presentes en el museo de b\u00c3\u00a9isbol m\u00c3\u00a1s grande y bullicioso que se pudiera imaginar y si est\u00c3\u00a1 lanzando sin hits ni carreras los gritos tendr\u00c3\u00adan la misma intensidad de un alfiler impactando el cemento del estadio.<\/p>\n
Alfonso L. Tusa C.<\/p>\n
English translation<\/p>\n
The baseball games with 1-0 scores keep a great emotional intensity. Behind every play through the innings, that intensity gets bigger, the hurlers effort is more remarkable and it floats in the air the possibility of some defensive error disturbing the pitchers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 magic.
\nIn the past, the pitchers remained in the mound for 9 and more frames while they defended their shutouts. At some point in the sixties, several coaches started to think about the excessive deliveries as the main reason for ending earlier the career of a pitcher, considering that the fact of throwing a baseball is an against nature movement. That is the reason of pitch counts surge and the relief pitchers specialization.
\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right to control the pitchers efforts because that way they preserve better their faculties through the years. But sometimes it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exaggerated and the managers don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t allow the pitchers to finish what they started , no matter if they feel good to stay in the game. That way baseball suffers for not having the chance of watching again those epic pitching duels from the past. As when Leon Cadore (Brooklyn Robins) and Joe Oschger (Boston Braves) had that pitching duel for 26 innings, on May 01st, 1920. In a letter written to Jerome Holtzman, Cadore recalled that in a game played a week before, Oeschger and him had developed another pitching duel, that time Cadore won 1-0 in eleven frames. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you ask me which was the effect that 26-innings game had on my arm, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll tell you that I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t raise it for two days. In the 20th inning the manager Wilbert Robinson asked me if I was tired.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Oeschger said that he felt a little tired at the end of the 1-1 game because of the night fall. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I was benefited by the fact that I retired the seventh inning with only three deliveries\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Before that game Oeschger had hurled a 20-inning game that finished 9-9, before the Philadelphia Phillies on May 30th, 1919 and their pitcher Burleigh Grimes.
\nOn July 02nd, 1933, the New York Giants defeated the San Luis Cardinals 1-0 in Polo Grounds. Carl Hubbell hurled the 18 innings the game lasted and got the win. Tex Carleton hurled 16 innings and Jesse Haines (1.2 innings) was the losing pitcher. Hubbell struckout 12 batters and kept the ball in the lower strike zone. He didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t allow a single walk. This is one of the reasons why so many pitchers from the past kept in the mound by a lot of innings. They had a great control on the strike zone. He accepted 6 hits. According to Waite Hoy, Hubbell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s source of ability was his extraordinary control on the curve, what made him capable of throwing his screwball.
\nOn June 05th, 1938, Andr\u00c3\u00a9s Julio B\u00c3\u00a1ez for Pastora and L\u00c3\u00a1zaro Salazar for Gavilanes got into a burning pitching duel that lasted for 20 innings at El Lago Stadium. Baez was the fifth batter in the line up. S\u00c3\u00a1lazar batted third in the Gavilanes line up. Pastora threatened in the second frame when Manduco Portillo got on base because of a Luis Aparicio Ortega error. Pedro Baez followed with a single. But a threatening line drive hit by the dominican short stop Horacio Mart\u00c3\u00adnez was caught by Vidal L\u00c3\u00b3pez in the left field and he completed the double play by throwing out Portillo at second base.
\nThe time of the game was 6 hours, 30 minutes. Andr\u00c3\u00a9s B\u00c3\u00a1ez faced 65 Gavilanes in 20 innings. Accepted 5 hits. Gave 4 walks. And struckout 10. Five of them before Vidal L\u00c3\u00b3pez. Salazar faced 67 Pastora batters in 19 innings. 9 hits. 1 earned run. 2 walks. 13 struckouts.
\nAnother game where the pitchers stayed on the mound with few runs happened on August 06th, 1959 at Memorial Stadium. Billy O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Dell started by the Baltimore Orioles. The Chicago White Sox made him a run in the third frame, Hoyt Wilhelm relieved O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Dell in the ninth inning. Billy Pierce started the game for the White Sox and stayed for 16 frames in the mound. The Orioles tied the game in the bottom of the eighth inning. O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Dell allowed 5 hits, 1 earned run, gave 4 walks, struckout 1, in 8 innings. Wilhelm pitched for 10 innings, 0 earned runs, 2 hits, 3 walks, 7 struckouts. Pierce allowed 11 hits, 1 earned run, 3 walks, 7 struckouts. Turk Lown relieved him in the inning 17. In 2 innings he accepted 1 hit and struckout 2.
\nOne of the most burning battles developed by two pitchers happened on July 02nd , 1963. Juan Marichal started by the San Francisco Giants and Warren Spahn by the Milwaukee Braves. Candlestick Park began filling with suspense when it arrived the ninth inning and the score remained 0-0. From that moment on, the manager Alvin Dark warned Marichal that if the game kept going he would take him out in the next inning. In the 14th inning Dark tried to use his bull pen. Marichal made him a comment: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do you see that man pitching for the Braves? He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 42. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m 25. If he can keep hurling,so can I\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Willie Mays decided the game with a home run in the bottom of the 16th inning. Marichal hurled 16 innings, allowed 8 hits, 0 runs, 4 walks, 10 struckouts. Spahn worked for 15.1 innings, 9 hits,1 earned run, 1 walk, 2 struckouts.
\nThat game brought the remembrance of the last one where two pitchers kept a shutout until the 16th inning. At that time Jack Harshman of the Chicago White Sox faced Al Aber of the Detroit Tigers in the Old Comiskey Park on August 13th, 1954. The White Sox won the game with an Orestes Mi\u00c3\u00b1oso three-base hit that plated in Nellie Fox from first base. Harshman hurled 16 scoreless frames, allowed 9 hits, 7 walks, 12 struckouts. Aber worked for 15.1 innings, 1 earned run, 8 struckouts, 3 walks.
\nMaybe this game is away from being an individual pitching duel, but it was a very fierce contest. On April 15th, 1968 the New York Mets visited the Astrodome to face the Houston Astros. Don Wilson started by the Astros and Tom Seaver by the Mets. Wilson remained in the game for 9 innings, allowed 5 hits, 0 earned runs, 3 walks, 5 struckouts. Seaver hurled 10 innings, allowed 2 hits, 0 earned runs, 0 walks, 3 struckouts. Jon Buzhardt (2 innings), Danny Coomb (2 innings), Jim Ray (7 innings) and Wade Blasingame (4 innings) (W), relieved Wilson. Ron Taylor (1 inning), Cal Koonce (1 inning), Bill Short (1 inning), Dick Selma (.2 inning), Al Jackson (3 innings), Danny Frisella(2.1 innings), Les Rohr (2.1 innings) (L), followed Seaver on the mound. Houston won 1-0 in the bottom of the 21st inning because of an error of the short stop Al Weis.
\nOn September 1st, 1967 the San Francisco Giants arrived to Crosley Field to face the Cincinnati Reds. Mel Queen started by the Reds and Gaylord Perry by the Giants. Queen hurled 8.1 innings, 0 earned runs, 8 hits, 1 walk, 10 struckouts. Perry kept on the mound for 16 innings, 0 earned runs, 2 walks, 10 hits, 12 struckouts. Ted Abernathy (3.2 innings), Don Nottebart (5 innings), Bob Lee (3 innings) (L), followed Queen on the mound. Frank Linzy (5 innings) relieved Perry and won the game for the Giants. Jim Ray Hart scored the winning run batted in by a walk to Dick Groat in the 21st inning.
\nNowadays to watch a game where the starting pitcher remains on the mound for 9 innings is something unexpected. If someone would last for more than 10 innings we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be at the biggest and noisiest baseball museum. If the pitcher is experiencing a no hitter the fans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 shouts would have the same intensity of a pin falling down on the stadium floor.<\/p>\n
Alfonso L. Tusa C.<\/p>\n
Alfonso is a writer whose work has been featured in Venezuela\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s daily newspaper, El Nacional and in the magazine Gente en Ambiente, and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s collaborated on several articles for newspapers, including the daily paper Tal Cual. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also written three books and biographies for SABR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s BioProject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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