STRIKE ONE -- ALL-OR-NOTHING DEPT.
Something happened in Game 3 of the
NLCS on Sunday that has happened only one other time in postseason history:
Every player who started for one team (i.e., the Phillies) scored a run -- but
no players on the other team (i.e., the Dodgers) scored a run.
With the help of the Elias Sports Bureau and ESPN research wiz Justin Haven, we can now announce that that's the first postseason game that meets that description since Game 7 of the 1934 World Series, when Dizzy Dean's Cardinals wiped out Elden Auker's Tigers by a score that sounds kind of familiar: 11-0.
Meanwhile, Elias reports there have been only three other postseason games besides those two in which any team had all nine starters score a run:
• Game 3 of the 2001 ALDS, when the Indians (whose hitting coach was Charlie Manuel) thumped the Mariners 17-2.
• Game 3 of the 1993 NLCS, when the Braves scrunched the Phillies 14-3 down the block from where Game 3 of this NLCS was played.
• Game 2 of the 1936 World Series, when the Yankees pounded the Giants 18-4 in a game in which Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Bill Dickey and Tony Lazzeri drove in 15 of those 18 runs.
STRIKE TWO -- NOW BATTING, NOW EXITING DEPT.
We're still trying to figure out exactly what was transpiring Sunday when Charlie Manuel let
Cliff Lee bat in the bottom of the eighth inning (when the Phillies led 8-0), but then
didn't send him out to pitch the ninth (because the Phillies led 11-0).
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Jayson Stark
