July 08, 2009

No Balls, No Strikes, One Win: Rockies left-hander Alan Embree was credited with the win over Washington last night without throwing a pitch.

posted by Mr Bismarck to baseball at 12:18 PM - 8 comments

As a mere casual fan of baseball, I'm even more bemused that this isn't the first time this has happened.

posted by Mr Bismarck at 12:20 PM on July 08, 2009

Semi-related recent blog post: Finishing a game without facing a batter. That's been done 137 times since 1954. While not as rare, there are some fun cases in the post.

posted by yerfatma at 12:40 PM on July 08, 2009

I know Dennys Reyes had a similar sort of anomaly with the Twins a year or two ago, when he threw a complete inning while only throwing one pitch, i.e. first pitch resulted in a triple-play. I don't know if that had happened before or not.

posted by TheQatarian at 02:03 PM on July 08, 2009

Nationals' fans, just when you think it couldn't get worse ...

posted by jjzucal at 05:24 PM on July 08, 2009

That is awesome. I love strange baseball events.

posted by Joey Michaels at 06:53 PM on July 08, 2009

The last guy to do it before Embree was BJ Ryan of Toronto.

The Jays just released Ryan today. Weird coincidence.

posted by beaverboard at 08:30 PM on July 08, 2009

I don't remember this happening to the Tigers back in 2003, but that is a season that I've mostly blocked from my memory.

Cool stuff here.

posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 12:20 AM on July 09, 2009

I'm surprised only one pitcher did it against the tigers in 2003.

posted by lionsfanandithurts at 06:28 AM on July 10, 2009

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