I heard something interesting about Roy Halladay last night

[Mudcat]

To say he is consistent would be an injustice of understatement. He is consistently outstanding.

Apparently the last time he was actually yanked from a game - meaning taken out in mid-inning where the manager goes and asks him for the ball - was last August. It wasn't even that bad. It's not like he was getting shelled. He was removed with two outs in the 7th inning of a game he was trailing 4-2.

Currently 9-1 after another win last night.

[Willie Bee]

Vegas Dave and I were talking about him yesterday. Cito took him out thinking he had a big enough lead in Halladay's previous start, and wondered if there was a chance he'd pull the big righty with a lead in Tuesday's game. Dude is a throwback to starting pitchers that came 20+ years before him.

[khaliagent]

Vegas Dave and I were talking about him yesterday. Cito took him out thinking he had a big enough lead in Halladay's previous start, and wondered if there was a chance he'd pull the big righty with a lead in Tuesday's game. Dude is a throwback to starting pitchers that came 20+ years before him.

he is my favourite pitcher of all time..
on game days you cant even talk to the guy he is so intense.
his wife says he is cold as ice.
if you seen his face after the last sac fly given up last night then you know what i mean.

best win pct for the last 6 years or so

[pavyracer]

Braves beat him.

[Willie Bee]

The Astros occasionally beat Greg Maddux in his glory days, didn't make him any less a pitcher.

[Mudcat]

My only complaint: I always want to call him Ray Holiday.



I wonder when the last time was that he actually got yanked due to getting shelled. Like when he didn't last 5 innings.

That's my little assignment for the research department.

[tsn101]

“No one says it, you just kind of get that feeling as a pitcher,” Saunders said. “You know, ‘I’m facing Roy Halladay today, if I give up a run I might lose.’ It puts added pressure on me and added pressure on the team to do whatever they can and for me to do whatever I can.”


Should be 11-1 but the bully let him down. Cito wasn't going to let that happen again.

Some pitchers have that one year where they do amazingly well, but over the past 5 years, he has no competition. Beast.

[pavyracer]

The Astros occasionally beat Greg Maddux in his glory days, didn't make him any less a pitcher.

Willie,

I was responding to the thread title. I find it interesting myself the Braves beat him meaning he is so good to be beaten by the Braves.

[smitch124]

The last time he didn't make it at least 5 and got pulled mid-inning was June 5th, 2007

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore;_ylt=Ar8xzNfiSOrcLS69xtdxVSWFCLcF?gid=270605114

BTW, the Blues Jays still won the game

[AMBlai01]

Halladay is going to win the Cy Young....best pitcher in baseball right now...

[Mudcat]

The last time he didn't make it at least 5 and got pulled mid-inning was June 5th, 2007

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore;_ylt=Ar8xzNfiSOrcLS69xtdxVSWFCLcF?gid=270605114

BTW, the Blues Jays still won the game

See? The guy is a horse.

Now smitch, kindly do the research on all other major league starting pitchers and check streaks of going 5+ innings and let us know how everyone compares.

Thanks.

[smitch124]

Haha, I will have to give you a bid on that one. But I will tell you that as much of a horse as Roy is he would be way down on the list. Here is one guy, Candy Cummings, who pitched 497 innings in one season (1872), with 53 complete games:

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/C/Pcummc101.htm

And one bad day on the mound he still managed 7 innings

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1872/B06080PH11872.htm

[pavyracer]

Haha, I will have to give you a bid on that one. But I will tell you that as much of a horse as Roy is he would be way down on the list. Here is one guy, Candy Cummings, who pitched 497 innings in one season (1872), with 53 complete games:

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/C/Pcummc101.htm

And one bad day on the mound he still managed 7 innings

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1...080PH11872.htm

Smitch,

Back in 1872 there were no commercials between innings so a complete game was less than 90 min which is not that hard to throw.

[Mudcat]

I had to do it. I did a google search of Candy Cummings. I had to know if there has ever been a female porn star by that name.

Yes, there has been.

Well I say 2 years without ever going less than 5 innings is pretty good in this day and age. It takes consistency to a freakish level.

[smitch124]

Smitch,

Back in 1872 there were no commercials between innings so a complete game was less than 90 min which is not that hard to throw.

What I love about the box score I posted is Candy's opponent that day. He threw a complete game shutout despite 9 errors by his team. I'm not sure what constituted an error in 1872, but I doubt they were good.

[cobra_king]

Braves beat him.

Actually they didn't. Braves won the game, but they didn't beat Halladay who was taken out for a pinch hitter with the scored tied 0-0.

Jesse Carlson got the loss.

[Mudcat]

Well okay and there's that.

[pavyracer]

Actually they didn't. Braves won the game, but they didn't beat Halladay who was taken out for a pinch hitter with the scored tied 0-0.

Jesse Carlson got the loss.

This is like saying Lindstrom didn't lose last night because Osgood was the one letting the winning goal in.

[cobra_king]

Please tell me you aren't serious.

[Mudcat]

Little 7-hit complete game shut-out for the doctor today. Took 97 pitches.

43rd complete game of his career. Record goes to 10-1 on the season.

[smitch124]

A great outing today Mudcat, not a spiffy as those shades tho...

[Mudcat]

Doc and I are all about the spiffy.

[Willie Bee]

Haha, I will have to give you a bid on that one. But I will tell you that as much of a horse as Roy is he would be way down on the list. Here is one guy, Candy Cummings, who pitched 497 innings in one season (1872), with 53 complete games:

Good digging there, smitch. My all-time favorite 'horse' of a pitcher is the original Iron Man, Joe McGinnity. Three times in the month of August 1903, McGinnity picked up two complete game wins pitching both games of a doubleheader. And no, the fact he only pitched 10 seasons in the majors isn't because he hurt his arm doing this. He retired from the majors to pitch in the minors into his 50s.

Know how he got the nickname Iron Man? Nope, wasn't for his pitching feats; he was a foundry worker in the offseason.