Joyful 76th birthday to five-time Gold Glover, four-time MLB All-Star, two-time ERA title-winner, 1978 American League Cy Younger winner and two-time World Sequence champion, Ron “Gator,” Guidry!
Guidry performed his whole 14-year profession with the New York Yankees, making his Large League debut in 1975 in opposition to the Boston Purple Sox. He earned himself an everyday place within the Yankees beginning rotation by 1977 and made his first All-Star group in 1978. That was additionally his lone Cy Younger marketing campaign, throwing 16 full video games (and 9 shutouts), ending with a career-high 248 strikeouts in 273 2/3 innings. That season was Guidry’s greatest playoff run as properly, going 2-0 and permitting simply two runs in 17 innings throughout two video games to win a second-consecutive World Sequence.
In 1983 he led baseball in full video games with 21 in his 31 begins, posting shutouts in three of these. He spent one other 5 seasons within the Bronx, retiring after the 1988 marketing campaign with 1,778 strikeouts to his identify in 368 video games.
Which brings us to at the moment’s quiz. Simply 25 pitchers have posted an ERA under 2.00 for a whole season for the reason that Divisional Period started in 1969. What number of of these pitchers are you able to identify in 5 minutes?
Good luck!
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