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Hey Joe, What Do You
2002-10-10 00:44
by Mike Carminati

Hey Joe, What Do You Know? III

Expanding on the Mays query from last night, how many pitchers have started and won a playoff game with 5 or fewer starts for their team. I have included World Series, LCS, and division series. I list them in reverse order by wins with the team for the season and include the player's total stats if he switched teams mid-year:

Name              Year PO?  Tm  W L All tms      W  L
Virgil Trucks     1945 WS   DET 0 0   
Red Munger        1946 WS   STL 2 2   
Tom Zachary       1928 WS   NYY 3 3 WSH-NYY      9 12
Bob Wolcott       1995 ALCS SEA 3 2   
Larry Christenson 1981 NLDS PHI 4 7   
Tommy John        1982 ALCS CAL 4 2 NYY-CAL     14 12
Don Sutton        1982 ALCS MIL 4 1 HOU-MIL     17  9
David Cone        1992 ALCS TOR 4 3 NYM-TOR     17 10
Ken Hill          1995 ALCS CLE 4 1 StL-CLE     10  8
Ed Crane          1888 WS   NYG 5 6   
Alex Ferguson     1925 WS   WSH 5 1 BosA-NYY-WSH 9  5
Marius Russo      1943 WS   NYY 5 10   
Roger Craig       1955 WS   BRO 5 3   
Mike Krukow       1987 NLCS SFG 5 6   
John Burkett      1996 ALDS TEX 5 2 FLA-TEX     11 12

Note that Trucks started one game that year. Actually Trucks and Munger were two guys like Mays who missed a substantial portion of the given year but enjoyed success the previous year. Craig, Crane, and Wolcott were rookies. Christenson, Russo, and Krukow were old vets finishing out careers. The others were mid-season acquisitions.

Actually, Larry Christenson got old quick destroying his knees in some Tug McGraw bicycle race for charity at the age of 24. He was never the same. Considering that he won 45 games by age 23, LC could have been pretty good.


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