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Originally Posted by fcabanski
2036Opening Day - Yankees @ Red Sox
New York Yankees Pitcher Paul Tqul had a perfect game going through 8 innings.He played 20 years before this with CO (486 wins, 6172 K's, a career .81 WHIP).
He struck out the first two batters in the 9th (K's #11 and #12 for the game.)On the 1-1 count, Boston's light hitting Wayne Thwaites dribbled a grounder tothe 2035 AAA gold glove 3B, Justin Stumbaugh. He bobbled the ball. Thwaitesreached on an error. The perfect game was gone.
Tqul retired the next batter on a FC grounder to SS.
Justin will forever be known to Yankees fans as Justin f'ing Stumbaugh.
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Yeah, theYankees may as well trade him after that. The fans will never forgive him.
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Originally Posted by Motorhead667
Ouch!
1 out away, that is brutal.
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This isn’t too well-known, but one of the unluckiest pitchers in baseball history for losing no-hitters & a perfect game with 2 out in the 9th has got to be Dave Stieb.
In September1988 he had two consecutive games with no-hitters in the 9th (2 outs both times). And both times he lost it to fluke singles. Check out this video,it’s unbelievable! The screenshot below is from his two consecutive one-hitters (the first two shown in the video).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkPxtOViVoo
To make it worse, he then lost a perfect game against the Yankees with 2 outs in the 9th the next season. At least that was a solid hit by Roberto Kelly, not a lucky hit. The season after *that*, Stieb finally got his elusive no-hitter against the Indians.