so you think you know baseball............

it is ruth and i think griffey and jimmie foxx are 5 and 6.

 

easy one - name the only 2 players to win the mvp, cy young and rookie of the year awards in their careers. no rookie ever won all 3 on their first year although fernando was close. and the answer isn't clemens either.

 

Would Verlander be one? Just a quick guess......

 

yes igloo--that's the easy one...

 

I got this. Verlander and Nomo.

 

nomo? sorry. he never won a cy or mvp. he did throw a no hitter in each league though.

 

Verlander and Newcombe.

 

ding ding - correct will.

 

Anyways, how do I put this question? There are 3 pitchers in MLB history to throw a shutout and hit a HR and win that same game 1-0. can you name 1 of them? or all 3?

 

Gallardo made baseball news again in his next start against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Gallardo pitched 8 shutout innings and hit a home run in the 7th, which was the only run of the game. Gallardo became only the 26th pitcher in major league history to win a game 1?0 while hitting a home run

seems like 26 guys did it igloo...

 

Baseball?s First Fountain of Youth
While juicing might seem like a recent phenomenon, reports about Hall of Famer James ?Pud? Galvin suggest it might be nearly as old as the national pastime itself.

A baseball card featuring Hall of Famer Pud Galvin. (Credit: Library of Congress)
On June 1, 1889, Dr. Charles-?douard Brown-S?quard delivered some startling news to his colleagues at the Soci?t? de Biologie in Paris. The eccentric physiologist reported that he?d successfully concocted a most unconventional fountain of youth: a liquid extract derived from dog and guinea pig testicles. The 72-year-old Brown-S?quard said that after injecting himself with the elixir, he felt 10 years younger and had the physical strength and intellectual energy to work in his laboratory for three hours straight, rather than just for his usual half an hour.

what a lazy ass? a half hour??

News of the youth-bestowing tonic quickly went viral and created a global sensation. Many doctors were skeptical of Brown-S?quard?s outlandish claims, but he was hardly known as a quack. A pioneering expert on the spinal cord?s physiology, he was held in high regard by the medical community.

Throughout the summer of 1889, fantastic claims about the therapeutic benefits of Brown-S?quard?s elixir generated front-page stories across the United States. ?Old Men Made Young,? cried a St. Paul Daily Globe headline on August 10, 1889. ?Old Men Made as Frisky as the Friskiest Boys,? blared The Boston Globe the next day. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that 70-year-old Fielden Weir, a former slave who?d been crippled with rheumatism, was dancing and kicking both feet as high as his head just hours after receiving an injection. The demand for sheep?used instead of guinea pigs by many American doctors?was so high in Cincinnati that butchers couldn?t keep pace.

The miraculous concoction was front-page news in Pittsburgh as well, and the reports would certainly have caught the attention of James Galvin, an aging pitcher for the city?s National League baseball team. The 32-year-old right-hander was in the twilight of a brilliant professional career that began in 1875. Nicknamed ?Pud? because he made ?pudding? of opposing batters, he?d already twirled two no-hitters and become baseball?s first 300-game winner. (?Pudding? would also have aptly described the physique of the short, stocky hurler.) In an era far removed from today?s five-man pitching rotations, Galvin generally started every other game for his teams. In both 1883 and 1884, he won 46 games for Buffalo?s National League franchise.

Galvin displayed such incredible stamina and longevity that he was also called the ?Little Steam Engine.? But by 1889 the engine was sputtering, and the veteran player yearned to regain the pinnacle of his powers. And so on August 12, Galvin received an experimental injection of Brown-S?quard?s potion at the Western Pennsylvania Medical College, The Washington Post reported.



Physiologist Charles-?douard Brown-S?quard, who concocted an elixir made from dog and guinea pig testicles that supposedly restored vitality. (Credit: Library of Congress)
The following day, Galvin turned back the clock by pitching a 9-0 shutout against Boston. His fastball was sizzling, and he yielded just five scattered singles. Galvin?s bat was full of vitality as well. A career .201 hitter, Galvin knocked in two runs with a fourth-inning double and plated another runner with a triple in the fifth inning. The Pittsburg Dispatch reported that Galvin ?once more was a youngster full of fun, power and tricks.?

The Washington Post was not shy in crediting Brown-S?quard for the comeback: ?If there still be doubting Thomases who concede no virtue in the elixir, they are respectfully referred to Galvin?s record in yesterday?s Boston-Pittsburgh game. It is the best proof yet furnished of the value of the discovery.?

If the injection enhanced Galvin?s performance, a placebo effect was surely at work: Brown-S?quard?s solution proved to be a medical fad without any therapeutic benefits. Still, by the end of 1889 more than 12,000 physicians had administered the elixir. Whether Galvin ever tried it again before the end of his baseball career is unknown.

Pud Galvin retired in 1892 with 365 victories and nearly 6,000 innings pitched. At that time he was baseball?s all-time leader in wins, innings pitched, games started, games completed and shutouts. His fame did not bring fortune, however. The star pitcher died penniless in 1902 at age 47.

The following year, Cy Young surpassed Galvin on the all-time wins list. Galvin still ranks sixth in all-time victories and second in complete games and innings pitched, but his name has largely faded into the annals of baseball history. In 1965 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame?an honor that has eluded some of the players who followed in his dubious footsteps.

 

Dude was 72. Pretty old to still be working, especially in 1889.

 

There's a GREAT question...!

I have no idea, but I'll take a stab on it. I'll just go by some very good pitchers who were also very good hitters:

Tom Glavine
Wes Ferrell
Don Drysdale

Now I DO know that Rick Wise pitched a no-hitter and also hit TWO home runs in a 4-0 game.

 

Okay -- I decided to see if I could look up the answer to this, and I've found 13 pitchers (not 3) who hit a home run in a 1-0 game.

 

Did those 13 pitchers win the games with their HR and shutout pitching? Rick Wise wouldn't count because he didn't win the game 1-0 with his HR. So he would have won anyways with the other runs......maybe they said complete games also? Forget?

 

for a pitcher to get credited with a shutout, it must be a complete game. there is no stat for a collaborative shutout.

 

Let's forget about Pud? He's been dead so long, instead of pushing up daisies, he's pushing up redwoods!

 

and i'll go with a guess of earl wilson for one, simply because of how many homers he hit.

 

Lulz ~

AWESOME avatar.

"Always with the negative waves, Moriarty."

 

Update:
Two of those 13 pitchers were very early, and I don't have a box score to verify, so I'm tossing them out.
Three pitched 8 innings, so I'm tossing them out.
One was in the Federal League, so I'm tossing him out.
One was the relief pitcher, so I'm tossing him out.

I have SIX verifiable pitchers who pitched a complete game, 1-0 shutout and hit the home run.