Wood's 20K game to air on MLB Network

It'll be a bit strange to watch now that he's no longer with the team, but amazing nonetheless

Sunday, 6PM EST

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please pick up the MLB Network, thank you.

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by All The Way on Feb 5, 2009 8:24 PM CST reply actions

Thanks for the heads-up.

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by Al Yellon on Feb 6, 2009 4:18 AM CST reply actions

Do you know....

If any of the stuff they air is available online afterwards?? I unfortunately still have Dish and don’t get MLBtv…..thanks in advance for the heads up!!

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by By Santo's Grace on Feb 6, 2009 10:12 AM CST reply actions

Sweet, thanks for mentioning it.

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by daver on Feb 6, 2009 10:16 AM CST reply actions

Best-pitched game I've ever seen.

I’ve probably watched the DVD of that five times in the last couple years. Better than Z’s no-hitter IMHO.

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by Goodie1969 on Feb 6, 2009 4:42 PM CST reply actions

Actually, I think it was, too.

Z’s was close, but Wood’s was the most dominating pitching performance in Cub history. I’d say only Sandy Koufax’s perfect game tops it in ML history.

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by Al Yellon on Feb 6, 2009 5:34 PM CST up reply actions

According to Wikipedia (since I can’t find a list anywhere else) and a query I ran on Baseball reference, Wood’s “game score” was a 105, the highest by a pitcher in a 9 inning game. I’ll be watching that game again w/ great joy….

by Jaydee1978 on Feb 6, 2009 8:17 PM CST reply actions

seeing as i'm not that big of a stat guy....

i must ask what a game score is, and why i have never heard of it.

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by laidbackliam on Feb 6, 2009 9:30 PM CST up reply actions

A good explanation for game score...

… can be found here.

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by Al Yellon on Feb 7, 2009 4:15 AM CST up reply actions

Whose call will it have?

Harry and Stone, perhaps?

One day I hope to come up with something worthy of this space.

by chilango2 on Feb 7, 2009 12:11 PM CST reply actions

Probably Chip Caray and Stone.

That’s who called it for WGN originally. Harry died before the 1998 season.

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by Al Yellon on Feb 7, 2009 12:14 PM CST up reply actions

Brain fart

I really do apologize for this. I remember watching the game live too…

One day I hope to come up with something worthy of this space.

by chilango2 on Feb 7, 2009 12:26 PM CST up reply actions

Watching it right now

And I cant believe how long that grass is..ha

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by bren on Feb 8, 2009 5:11 PM CST reply actions

Sick

to see how “bad” our starting line up

Blausser
Orie
Brown
Alexander

WOW.

And if you really want to scratch your head look at the entire team roster for the season, and you will ask the same question I do “How did Rigglemen get that team into the post season?”

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by Cubbie-Tim on Feb 8, 2009 5:45 PM CST reply actions

Here's your answer.

Kerry Wood, Sammy Sosa and Rod Beck.

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by Al Yellon on Feb 8, 2009 7:45 PM CST up reply actions

O Henry?

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by Cubbie-Tim on Feb 8, 2009 9:38 PM CST up reply actions

Here's one thing I noticed that's far different now.

A number of balls that went in the dirt were left in play. That would never happen today, especially on a wet, rainy day like that day was.

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by Al Yellon on Feb 8, 2009 7:45 PM CST reply actions

Watched This

Apart from a fairly helpful wide strike zone, this was a masterful performance. A lot of those “snappy” sliders in the zone reminded me of Marmol. I hadn’t seen this game when it originally happened, so it was real treat to catch it now.

…and some of us are not huge fans of our current lead off hitter, but at least it isn’t Brant Brown!

Did any of you actually get to attend this game? Wrigley appeared to be about half empty that day.

by WiscCubsFan on Feb 8, 2009 8:05 PM CST reply actions

More than half empty.

Attendance was 15,758. As they said, there was rain threatening (and it did rain for a couple of innings). This was before the Sosa/McGwire HR race (and the playoff chase) had brought people back to the park that year.

I was there. It was truly special, probably the best pitching performance I will ever see. (Z’s no-hitter comes close.)

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by Al Yellon on Feb 9, 2009 4:02 AM CST up reply actions