Si, hablamos en serio. Por supuesto que era otra \u00c3\u00a9poca, pero en la temporada de 1908 Walter Perry Johnson se encaram\u00c3\u00b3 en el mont\u00c3\u00adculo de los Senadores de Washington 3 veces seguidas. Los d\u00c3\u00adas 04, 05 y 07 de septiembre Johnson desafi\u00c3\u00b3 a los Highlanders de Nueva York (que luego dieron paso a los Yanquis) en el Hilltop Park de la Gran Manzana. La extra\u00c3\u00b1a situaci\u00c3\u00b3n se present\u00c3\u00b3 debido a que los lanzadores de Washington se sent\u00c3\u00adan indispuestos.<\/p>\n
El viernes 04 s\u00c3\u00b3lo acept\u00c3\u00b3 6 imparables y derrot\u00c3\u00b3 a Nueva York 3-0 con todo y su as de pitcheo “Happy Jack” Chesbro.<\/p>\n
El s\u00c3\u00a1bado 05 volvi\u00c3\u00b3 a vencer a los Highlanders, esta vez 6-0. Sol\u00c3\u00b3 permiti\u00c3\u00b3 4 imparables. Rube Manning sali\u00c3\u00b3 derrotado.<\/p>\n
Luego del descanso forzado por las leyes de Nueva York. Johnson regres\u00c3\u00b3 el lunes 07. En el primero de una doble jornada Washington derrot\u00c3\u00b3 a los Highlanders 4-0. Johnson volvi\u00c3\u00b3 a vencer a Chesbro, s\u00c3\u00b3lo acept\u00c3\u00b3 2 imparables y ponch\u00c3\u00b3 a 5.<\/p>\n
Walter Johnson se un\u00c3\u00ada de esta manera a Jimmy Dygert como los \u00c3\u00banicos pitchers en haber lanzado 3 blanqueos en 4 d\u00c3\u00adas en la Gran Carpa. Dygert venci\u00c3\u00b3 a los Indios de Cleveland 4-0 y 8-0 el primero y el tres de octubre de 1907 y el 04 derrot\u00c3\u00b3 8-0 a los Senadores de Washington. En esos 3 juegos Dygert s\u00c3\u00b3lo permitido 11 imparables a sus contrarios, ponch\u00c3\u00b3 24 y apenas le batearon para .124.<\/p>\n
Actuaciones como estas pertenecen a la mitolog\u00c3\u00ada del b\u00c3\u00a9isbol. En la actualidad es casi una rareza ver a un pitcher terminar un juego, lanzar una blanqueada descansa entre los sue\u00c3\u00b1os m\u00c3\u00a1s atrevidos de cualquier aficionado a los juegos de pitcheo y defensa. Por eso resulta casi fant\u00c3\u00a1stico leer los hechos de una \u00c3\u00a9poca cuando los pitchers lanzaban, 12, 15, 18 innings, muchas veces de blanqueo. Pero que alguno haya lanzado tres blanqueos en 4 d\u00c3\u00adas, representa una haza\u00c3\u00b1a que s\u00c3\u00b3lo ostentan Johnson y Dygert. Parece una f\u00c3\u00a1bula de comics. Eso fue como una avance de lo que vendr\u00c3\u00ada en el futuro. Johnson fue 7 veces lider en blanqueos de la Liga Americana y es lider de todos los tiempos en blanqueos con 110.<\/p>\n
English Translation<\/strong><\/p>\n Yes, We’re talking seriously. Of course it was in another era. In the 1908 season Walter Perry Johnson climbed the mound for the Washington Senators during three days in a row. On September 4th, 5th and 7th, Johnson challenged the New York Highlanders (afterwards they became the Yankees) at Hilltop Park in the Big Apple. All this happened because Washington was short on pitching due to assorted maladies.<\/p>\n On Friday 4th Johnson only accepted 6 hits and defeated New York and its ace “Happy Jack” Chesbro 3-0.<\/p>\n On Saturday 5th he beat the Highlanders again, this time 6-0. He only allowed 4 hits. Rube Manning got the loss.<\/p>\n They didn`t play on Sunday because of the blue laws in New York at that time.<\/p>\n The Big Train came back on Monday 7th. In the first of a double header Washington defeated the Highlanders 4-0. Johnson beat Chesbro again. He only accepted 2 hits, 5 strikeouts.<\/p>\n Walter Johnson joined Jimmy Dygert as the only pitchers who have hurled three shutouts in four days in the big show. Dygert beat the Cleveland Indians 4-0 and 8-0 on October 1st and 3rd 1907. And on October 4th he defeated the Washington Senators 8-0.\u00c2\u00a0 In those three games Dygert only allowed 11 hits. He got 24 strikeouts. The average against him was .124.<\/p>\n Performances like these belong to the baseball mythology. Nowadays it’s almost a rarity that a pitcher completes a game. To hurl a shutout is a very high dream comparable to the advent of a comet. Because of this it’s almost fantastic to read the facts of an era when the pitchers worked for 12, 15, 18 innings per game, many times while hurling a shutout. But that somebody had accomplished three shutouts in four days, it’s a record that only have Johnson and Dygert. It seems like a comics fabula. For Johnson it was like a sign of what would come in the following years. He led the American League seven times in shutouts. He has the most lifetime shutouts with 110.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t