20 years ago today, Kerry Wood struck out 20 batters

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I just looked it up and saw that Game Score has it rated as #1

But I personally wouldn't say it's the best pitching game I've ever seen.
Bruh, I saw Pedro Martinez own New York's entire soul in 1999 with 17 strikeouts.

Yeah he gave up a run, but that was one time I can say I really felt hopeless for the Yankees.
Dude came in our house and was setting mufukkas down

fukk you forever @BucciMane

 

[staticshock]

98 baseball season


The home run race & Kerry Wood

 

[BucciMane]

I just looked it up and saw that Game Score has it rated as #1

But I personally wouldn't say it's the best pitching game I've ever seen.
Bruh, I saw Pedro Martinez own New York's entire soul in 1999 with 17 strikeouts.

Yeah he gave up a run, but that was one time I can say I really felt hopeless for the Yankees.
Dude came in our house and was setting mufukkas down

fukk you forever @BucciMane

The formula isn't anything crazy, and I agree about being surprised it was number one when using that metric.

However, there are a few games that I think we're more dominant, although it's close. I won't get into an AL v.s. NL argument, but having a DH makes some AL pitching performances slightly more impressive in terms of dominance, but the Wood performance was unreal for someone his age..

 

[Tommy Fits]

That slider he was throwing that game might be the nastiest slider I've ever seen. I had a bunch of Kerry wood rookie cards thinking he had next

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

90's baseball was

Bonds, Griffey, Pedro, Big Hurt, Crime Dog, Wood, Maddux/Glavine/Smoltz

 

[Schmoove]

That slider he was throwing that game might be the nastiest slider I've ever seen. I had a bunch of Kerry wood rookie cards thinking he had next

What happened to dude? HGH?

 

[C-Styles]

I remember being a shorty at 13 coming back from the park playing a pick up game to tuning into WGN and seeing what was going on in the 3rd inning. I was like woah, who is this pitcher? By the time he got to 17 my eyes were glued and by 20 i was like, mom, go get me his jersey!


Still have it till this day...


To me he's a hall of famer based on that game and the 03 playoffs where he carried us past Atlanta, thought that would be it and that we we're finally gonna get one

but ya know... Curses get in the way and sh*t

 

[wtfyomom]

not saying wood was on them, but 90s baseball was better cause of PEDs lets be real. also this current era the shift is a liability to the sport now. nobody wants to see a hard hit ball hit to the outfield be an out, people will say just bunt and the shift isnt effective like no i dont want to see arron judge or someone bunt foh, just like im not trying to see the pitcher hit. the epitome of the PED era was bonds vs gange at bat if people remember what im talking about it was top notch drama. now nikkas losing 20 points off their average cause of this dumb ass shift, i know they always used it but it used to be more based on hunches so it didnt effect the game that much, shyt is so precise now its ruining the game, baseball the only sport that actively trys to DECREASE offense. stuck in the past clinging to white records and shyt. nobody cares about PED use in other sports. in football its like you can still make the hall, people have the reaction like so what? in baseball suddenly congress is getting involved in a fukkin game cause barry and them were coming for white records. keeping bullshyt like pitchers hitting and the shift for "tradition" foh baseball will be left behind if they dont change.

 

[3rd Koast Kang]

Negged

 

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90's baseball was

Bonds, Griffey, Pedro, Big Hurt, Crime Dog, Wood, Maddux/Glavine/Smoltz

The homie brought up Crime Dog!!
I remember him in those baseball training commercials like it was yesterday.

 

[MikelArteta]

Should be in the hof
If it wasn't for the strike in 94 he would have had 500 home runs
And everyone who wasn't csugtc for peds is a hof

The homie brought up Crime Dog!!
I remember him in those baseball training commercials like it was yesterday.

 

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Should be in the hof
If it wasn't for the strike in 94 he would have had 500 home runs
And everyone who wasn't csugtc for peds is a hof

I would say he’s borderline.
The issue is he played a good chunk of his career in the steroid era. And so his numbers don’t look as impressive as the guys who juiced.

If Crime Dog came in the league 5 years earlier he would look more impressive against those 80s guys.

I’ll say this, Fred McGriff hit 493 homers in his career. I would not have guessed that at all.

The man had an .886 OPS over a 19 year career. It’s HARD to OPS that high over that time frame. Especially if you’re clean.

 

[MikelArteta]

Cleaner than clean
More hrs and RBIs than that red Sox Jim rice

I would say he’s borderline.
The issue is he played a good chunk of his career in the steroid era. And so his numbers don’t look as impressive as the guys who juiced.

If Crime Dog came in the league 5 years earlier he would look more impressive against those 80s guys.

I’ll say this, Fred McGriff hit 493 homers in his career. I would not have guessed that at all.

The man had an .886 OPS over a 19 year career. It’s HARD to OPS that high over that time frame. Especially if you’re clean.

 

[neph27]

The homie brought up Crime Dog!!
I remember him in those baseball training commercials like it was yesterday.

In hs baseball we all used to quote this video a day in practice

we wanted to be back to back to back aau national champions

THIS is the instructional video that gets results

We actually set up a garbage can behind home plate once to make those throws

 

[madness]

Wood threw some nasty heat, he was one of my favorite pitchers back then...him, Pedro, Big Unit, Clemens etc were all must-watch baseball when they were on the mound

Shoutout to the Marlins for crushing the Windy City Buildings in 03 tho