Video: Remembering Kerry Wood’s 20 Strikeout Performance

[The Jewnited States]

Video: Remembering Kerry Wood’s 20 Strikeout Performance | Getting Blanked | Blogs | theScore.com

The only blemish on the Chicago Cubs’ side of the May 6th, 1998 boxscore of game versus the Houston Astros was a infield single off the bat of Ricky Gutierrez. Although Kerry Wood threw a one-hitter against the Astros that afternoon, the amount of hits surrendered, or lack thereof, was secondary to number of batters rung up by the 21-year old right-hander. Kerry Wood tied a Major League record with 20 strikeouts in a 9-inning game that day, and it still stands as one of the most dominant pitching performances of the modern era.
Kerry Wood&#8217;s 20-strikeout game took place 15 years ago today. If you watched the iconic performance live, then this serves as your weekly dose of &#8220;hey, you&#8217;re getting old&#8221;. Wood threw 122 pitches to a Houston Astros lineup that featured the likes of Jeff Bagwell, Craig Biggio, Moises Alou, and pre-worthless Derek Bell. This was an Astros team that won 102 games. This was not a case of < insert elite pitcher of the day > tuning the 2013 Houston Astros.


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[Super Cheech]

Remember watching this live on WGN...he was throwing hard pause

 

[The Jewnited States]

Remember watching this live on WGN...he was throwing hard pause

i actually remember seeing the tail end of this game live too. i was in fukking awe that he was only 20 years old and dominating like that

also this is random but this throw was ridiculous

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[Heelmatic]

Those last 2 strike outs

How many nikkas watched the 3rd strike go by cause they had no idea what was coming

Too bad the bum ass Cubs are cursed or Kerry Wood coulda been somebody

 

[FaTaL]

amazing

 

[GoldenGlove]

I remember seeing this when it happened.

I'm a Sox fan but I'll never forget that performance. shyt was wild.

 

[MikelArteta]

Such potential wasted

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[god shamgod]

That's how he got the nickname kid k cubs had 2 aces and both of their careers were destroyed cuz of injuries

 

[nomoreneveragain]

Why Can't Mark Prior put HGH on his elbow and shoulder

 

[The Jewnited States]

bump

 

[Art Barr]

i saw this game live.
won company tickets for being number one in sales.
great moment,..
it was cold as fukk, but i was down to see him handle that.

art barr

 

[StreetDawah]

that's my goat

 

[Reggie]

I remember seeing this game as a youngster. This is when I was into baseball like that and could watch a long three hour game. The Cubs may be the most cursed franchise ever. To have two potentially great pitchers go down like that just wasn't fair. Both of them should still be in the league now if not for the injuries.

 

[verbaltelekinesis]

YOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

When did MLB allow whole games on YOUTUBE?!

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[TheFryingDutchman]

I remember being in elementary school when this happened. All the boys were going crazy when this went down. I was like why cant the Sox have someone like this?