Sad day for 1980s baseball players, as Jamie Moyer was DFA’d by the Colorado Rockies yesterday. Looks like he’ll never get that 300th win.
Todd Frazier throwing his bat at a Moyer pitch and hitting it out of Great American Ballpark just might’ve done the old southpaw in. Giancarlo Stanton hitting a 150 m.p.h. Spartan Laser off of him that broke a scoreboard at Marlin Park didn’t help either.
In honor of Moyer, here is Mike Morgan — another pitcher that played in parts of four decades.
Curt Schilling, better at facial-hair growing than video-game company management. /rim shot/
I spent a good portion of my Memorial Day weekend playing RBI Baseball.
Simply put, Rob Wilfong is an RBI Baseball legend.
On May 28, 1987, Mike Young hit a pair of home runs in extra innings (10, 12) in the O’s 8-7 victory the California Angels.
He became the fifth player in history to do so.
In other words, Happy Memorial Day.
Despite the chopper mustache, beefy sideburns, extra-medium hair, affinity toward pastel clothing and the fact he was born in Brooklyn, Dennis Leonard wasn’t known to be a hipster.
Also, despite being a three-time 20-game winner for the Royals when they were actually relevant, Leonard never made an All-Star team.
Chances are he probably turned that internal rage into a mean slam poetry performance piece. Or wrote a self-produced novella about it.
Despite being one of the top pitchers of the 1980s, John Tudor never made an All-Star team. Not once.
He still currently throws one of the best slurves in “RBI Baseball.”
On this date in baseball back in 1982, Mario Mendoza hit into a fielder’s choice in his final Major League at-bat.
With a career batting average of .215 (as well as a truly fetid .507 career OPS), Mendoza was the eponymous owner of the dreaded “Mendoza Line.”
Is it just me, or does Mendoza look like “The Thing”-era Wilford Brimley?
Yesterday, the oldest player still active in MLB.
Today, the second oldest.
Omar Vizquel, 45, became the oldest player to play shortstop in major-league history earlier this month.
Guess you can get away with that if you won 11 Gold Gloves back in the day.
Bad job by the Mariners to trade him to Cleveland for Felix Fermin and Reggie Jefferson. Can’t even blame the suits at Nintendo for that blunder.
Last night, Jamie Moyer notched an infield single in the fourth inning of the Rockies’ 6-1 victory over the Diamondbacks.
The squibber drove in two runs, giving the Moyer the distinction as the oldest player in MLB history to record in an RBI — surpassing Julio Franco.
Moyer also worked into the seventh inning on the mound, scattering six hits and striking out five, to pick up career win No. 269.
Here’s hoping he gets to 300.
On May 16, 1983, Darryl Strawberry hit the first of his 335 career home runs off of this man, Lee Tunnell, in the Mets’ 11-4 win over the Pirates at Three Rivers Stadium.
Just take a moment to let that sink in.
An ode to baseball's eightiest decade
