The fastest game in major-league took less than an hour to play.
It is tempting to imagine how Chicago pitching legends Greg Maddux and Mark Buehrle would have fared under MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred's new pitch clock.
And the 1997 game would have been even quicker had Geremi Gonzalez, Ramon Tatis and Terry Adams combined not thrown nearly twice as many pitches as the former Cub. by signing up you agree to our terms of service None of the runs given up by Buehrle were earned, by the way.Ironically, by making baseball"relevant" to today's society and more up-to-date, the pitch clock's deployment is actually old school, taking baseball back to its dead ball roots when there were no night games and players routinely finished nine innings before sundown.
The Phillies and the New York Giants, under acting manager Christy Mathewson, gave a new meaning to the phrase"getaway day" on Sept. 28, 1919. Nearly 20,000 fans at the Polo Grounds in New York watched Jesse Barnes of the Giants earn his National League leading 25th win in 51 minutes in the first game of a Sunday doubleheader on the last day of the season. The second game actually was supposed to have been played the next day, but was moved up to draw a larger Sunday crowd.
The Giants also won the bottom half of the twin-bill 7-1, showcasing such rookies as future Cubs manager Frankie Frisch.
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