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ADKbrown	Post subject: Shades of Tom Zachary Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 12:15 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1286 Location: Saranac Lake, N.Y.	Aaron Small is now 9-0. If he manages one more win without a loss, I believe he will become only the second major-leaguer to win at least 10 games without losing. Tom Zachary, another Yankee, was 12-0 in 1929. Two years earlier, while with the Senators, Zachary gave up Ruth's 60th home run. More info here.
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wordygurdy	Post subject: Re: Shades of Tom Zachary Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 12:28 pm
Joined: Sat Nov 01, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 741 Location: The Empire State	ADKbrown wrote: Aaron Small is now 9-0. If he manages one more win without a loss, I believe he will become only the second major-leaguer to win at least 10 games without losing. Tom Zachary, another Yankee, was 12-0 in 1929. Two years earlier, while with the Senators, Zachary gave up Ruth's 60th home run. More info here. Wow. That's a cool stat, ADK. It's hard to believe, among Yankee pitchers alone--Guidry in '78, Ford almost any year--that only one pitcher has ever won 10 without losing a game. Alas, given Mr. Small's apparent relocation to the bullpen in favor of Mr. Wang, it looks as if it might be harder for Mr. Small to equal or overtake Mr. Zachary.
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ADKbrown	Post subject: Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 2:06 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1286 Location: Saranac Lake, N.Y.	There have been other pitchers who won 10 in a row, but they lost at least one game in the course of the season. Elroy Face was 19-1 with the Pirates, and I believe his lone loss came late in the season. Face, btw, grew up in Stephentown (or was it Schaghticoke?), a rural town outside Troy. When I worked at the paper there, a bar in Troy used to sell "short pitchers" of beer at a discount once a week. They called it Roy Face Night, because Face stood only 5-foot-4 or thereabouts. He is indirectly responsible for the save stat, having become the pitcher of record in several games after blowing the lead.
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Matthew Grieco	Post subject: Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 2:21 pm
Joined: Mon Mar 10, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 2266 Location: New Jersey	Tom Zachary was also the name of my high school principal. How odd. Anyhow, moving Small to the bullpen is probably smart. He's pitched well most of the time, but a couple of his nine wins are attributable to the Yankees' run-scoring talents far more than to his pitching.
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ADKbrown	Post subject: Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 8:53 am
Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1286 Location: Saranac Lake, N.Y.	Quote: Small, who considered retirement when he was still in the minors at the All-Star Game break, is the first pitcher to start his Yankees career with 10 victories in a row. He likely will finish the regular season 10-0. According to espn.com, three pitchers have finished a season with at least 10 victories and no losses: Tom Zachary (12-0 for the 1929 Yankees); Dennis Lamp (11-0 for the 1985 Blue Jays); and Howie Krist (10-0 for the 1941 St. Louis Cardinals). (NYT) I stand corrected.
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ADKbrown	Post subject: Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 3:36 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1286 Location: Saranac Lake, N.Y.	Quote: If the Yankees somehow go to the World Series this year, the journeyman Small -- making the big-league minimum and epitomizing in every way the perfect anti-Yankee -- will be the biggest single reason. One of the most unexpected bargain-basement players in the game's long history, Small was stuck in Class AAA with a 1-4 record at the all-star break and assumed he'd soon quit the sport. Now, he may have saved the season of the most expensive team ever fielded, the $200 million Yanks. (Boswell in WPost) That's an overstatement. He didn't pitch well in several of the games that he won.
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wordygurdy	Post subject: Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 11:44 am
Joined: Sat Nov 01, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 741 Location: The Empire State	ADKbrown wrote: Quote: If the Yankees somehow go to the World Series this year, the journeyman Small -- making the big-league minimum and epitomizing in every way the perfect anti-Yankee -- will be the biggest single reason. One of the most unexpected bargain-basement players in the game's long history, Small was stuck in Class AAA with a 1-4 record at the all-star break and assumed he'd soon quit the sport. Now, he may have saved the season of the most expensive team ever fielded, the $200 million Yanks. (Boswell in WPost) That's an overstatement. He didn't pitch well in several of the games that he won. Absolutely, ADK. Small and Shawn Chacon together have combined to save the Yanks' season. It's hard to label one a bigger surprise than the other, given how ineffective both were in their previous places of employ.
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