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EagleNYC {l Wrote}:A masterful performance. It's sparked the "best game ever" debate. Limiting it to the regular season I have to go with Wood's 20 K, 1 hit (infield) no walk performance. Only eights batters out of twenty eight put the ball in play.

Martinez whiffed seven of the last eight hitters he faced. He retired the last 22 batters he faced. ''Wow,'' Cone said to Mariano Rivera.

''That is pitching,'' Rivera replied.

''Awesome,'' Girardi said later. ''The sharpest stuff I've seen,'' Pettitte said.

It was as if the Yankees were swinging within a darkened closet, for Martinez was throwing all three of his pitches for strikes. His fastball was moving, Tino Martinez said, and he was spinning his curveball for strikes, and when you looked for the fastball, he would then throw his changeup, the ball dropping away as if Pedro Martinez were manipulating it like a marionette. ''That is about as close to unhittable as you can find,'' Torre said. ''You can't fault the hitters.''

Jimy Williams, the Boston manager, said it was the best pitching effort he had ever seen. David Cone agreed, less than two months removed from throwing a perfect game. Joe Torre, the Yankees' manager, mentioned Bob Gibson and Sandy Koufax as he drew comparable efforts from his memory.

claver2010 {l Wrote}:Dickeys incredible run (esp for a knuckleballer) and this thread made me think of the best string of starts I've every seen.

Granted I don't go back nearly as far as some of you guys but Pedro with the Sox has to be up there

Here's Dickey's last 6 starts (sample size!!!)

6-0, 48.2 Inn, 21 H, 1 ER, .18 ERA, 63 Ks 5 BB

Looking for some Pedro numbers in his 23-4 season:

5 starts:

5-0, 41 Inn, 20 H. 4 ER, .88 ERA, 70 Ks 6 BBs

Which was in AL East steroid era

claver2010 {l Wrote}:Dickeys incredible run (esp for a knuckleballer) and this thread made me think of the best string of starts I've every seen.

Granted I don't go back nearly as far as some of you guys but Pedro with the Sox has to be up there

Here's Dickey's last 6 starts (sample size!!!)

6-0, 48.2 Inn, 21 H, 1 ER, .18 ERA, 63 Ks 5 BB

Looking for some Pedro numbers in his 23-4 season:

5 starts:

5-0, 41 Inn, 20 H. 4 ER, .88 ERA, 70 Ks 6 BBs

Which was in AL East steroid era

bignick33 {l Wrote}:

claver2010 {l Wrote}:Dickeys incredible run (esp for a knuckleballer) and this thread made me think of the best string of starts I've every seen.

Granted I don't go back nearly as far as some of you guys but Pedro with the Sox has to be up there

Here's Dickey's last 6 starts (sample size!!!)

6-0, 48.2 Inn, 21 H, 1 ER, .18 ERA, 63 Ks 5 BB

Looking for some Pedro numbers in his 23-4 season:

5 starts:

5-0, 41 Inn, 20 H. 4 ER, .88 ERA, 70 Ks 6 BBs

Which was in AL East steroid era

Wakefield went 14-1 with a 1.68 ERA in his first 17 starts (including 6 complete games) for the Red Sox in 1995 after getting called up from Pawtucket.

flyingelvii {l Wrote}:I bet they probably wanted to lock Mitch from Dazed and Confused up to a long-term deal but he's seemed pretty dead set on just doing arbitration until he hits his FA years a la Papelbon. Sometimes it works out for the players, sometimes it doesn't.