The score was 2-1 Reds in the bottom of the 8th. Both runs scored on an error after walks.
Only resurrecting the thread, not Rusty himself.
The error that allowed those runs to score was by the usually reliable Roger Metzger.
Unconnected to the above but the
NY Times article about Metzger's later encounter with a table saw.
And what would Carlos May's career have looked like if he hadn't lost his right thumb in a training accident while in the Marine Reserves in Aug. 1969? Even thumb-less, it wasn't shabby.
Was Carlos the only MLB player to ever where his birthday on his uni? "May 19"
Yes, I'm sure you knew Carlos was Lee May's brother.
Touched on in the thread but had Wilson gotten that 3rd no-no he would have joined Ryan, Koufax, Feller, Cy Young and Larry Corcoran as the only members of an exclusive clique with more than 2 no-hitters.
And finally why I sought this thread out in the first place was to post a link to this:
Don Wilson's life and death, his career, how Clay Kirby was probably sympathizing with Wilson during the near no-hitter and why the Claude Osteen acquisition stunk for several reasons.And it's a damn good article and I don't really give a flying fuck if someone might've previously linked to it in the past 8 years.
Why yes, I am having one of those stream of consciousness type mornings. How's yours?