Big D's Best Ever

 

TRIVIA WINNER: In 1880 playing for the Troy Trojans Tim Keefe pitched 105 innings and registered the lowest ERA ever in the history of big league baseball at 0.86.  

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NEW TRIVIA QUESTION:  Don Drysdale died while working for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In what city did he pass away?

There is no doubt Don Drysdale was one of the best pitchers of the 1960s and in 1962 he had his best season ever. Twice a 20 game winner, and a 19 game winner in another season, in "62 he was perhaps one of the best of all time.

Walking away with a 25-9 record over 314 innings, Big D as he was known in Los Angeles worked his way to a 41 start season (Led the NL) and completed 19 games, but he also finished two others pitching in 43 Dodger contests. He also struck out 232 batters and had a 1.11 WHIP on his way to winning the Cy Young Award.

He was probably never better than on May 23rd, facing the Mets and he faced just three batters over the minimum in throwing just 110 pitches in a nine inning 3-1 win. He allowed just four hits. In 1962 beating the Mets wasn't such an achievement for anybody but it just showed how dominant Drysdale was in 1962. 

However the very next start he beat the Phillies 2-1, going the distance again. In wins no. 23 and 25 he tossed shutouts and in each faced just 35 batters or eight over the minimum. And did we mention he also had five extra base hits and 14 RBI on the season? O course in later years and through 1966 Drysdale would team with Sandy Koufax to establish one of the dominant duo's in baseball.

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