Bob Tewksbury's crazy 4 game run in August 1990

[leatherman]

With pitch counts being all the rage in today's game, I was looking up complete games with low numbers of pitches and discovered an insane stretch by freakazoid control pitcher Bob Tewksbury in 1990: http://www.baseball-reference.com/playe ... g_gamelogs

8/12 - 9 inning shutout, 6 hits, 0 walks, 91 pitches
8/17 - 9 inning shutout, 1 hit, 0 walks, 79 pitches
8/22 - 7 innings (took the loss), 8 hits, 2 runs, 1 walk, 82 pitches
8/29 - 9 inning CG, 6 hits, one run (a HR), 0 walks, 73 pitches

Totals over that stretch:
3-1, 34 IP, 3 CG (2 shutouts), 21 hits, 3 runs, 1 walk, 325 pitches, 0.65 WHIP

That comes to 9.5 pitches per inning, or 86 pitches per 9 innings.

If you remove the loss, he had 3 complete games in just 243 pitches (9 per inning, 81 per game). Since 2000, there have only been 44 games where a pitcher had a 9 inning CG and threw 91 pitches or fewer: http://www.baseball-reference.com/play- ... areit/t9k6

Tewks did it three times in 17 days. I wonder if he even had to ice his arm that month.


David

 

[jeremy]

christy mathewson did that in his sleep in 1990 and he had been dead for 1000 years

 

[Frow]

As horrible as it is to gives props to a Twinkee....I've always liked Tewks. Anyone's who's fastball tops out at 50 mph and win is an awesome pitcher in my book