Koufax perfect game rides on top
The highest game score by a LAD pitcher against the Cubs at Dodger Stadium is, of course, the perfect game by Sandy Koufax.
I like this list because it has some names on it that had been missing in my other game score leaderboards. Like Hiroki Kuroda, Bill Singer, Tim Belcher, Ricky Nolasco, Rick Honeycut, John Purdin, Bob Miller, Vincente Padilla, Nick Willhite, Chan Ho Park, and Bob Welch.
Most of you should recognize those names but I bet you don’t recognize John Purdin, Bob Miller, or Nick Willhite?
John Purdin was one of my first ever LAD rookie baseball cards. The kind that comes with two players combined on one card. In this case Purdin was lumped in with the Bull Al Ferrera. I think he was painted. I had never seen Purdin pitch or ever saw a scouting report on him but I always wanted him to succeed. Sadly, Purdin would only make five starts and this one in 1964 would be his best by far. It was his first major league start and he shutout the Cubs in late Sept. Can you imagine the expectations for him in the winter of 1965? The blogosphere had to have been going wild.
Player Date Rslt IP H ER BB SO GSc Sandy Koufax 1965-09-09 W 1-0 9.0 0 0 0 14 101 Sandy Koufax 1964-05-04 W 2-1 10.0 3 1 3 13 92 Hiroki Kuroda 2008-06-06 W 3-0 9.0 4 0 0 11 90 Bill Singer 1969-08-08 W 5-0 9.0 2 0 0 7 90 Tim Belcher 1991-08-30 W 2-0 9.0 4 0 0 10 89 Fernando Valenzuela 1981-08-27 W 6-0 9.0 4 0 2 10 87 Don Drysdale 1968-05-14 W 1-0 9.0 2 0 3 7 87 Ricky Nolasco 2013-08-28 W 4-0 8.0 3 0 1 11 86 Sandy Koufax 1965-07-16 W 3-0 9.0 4 0 2 9 86 Clayton Kershaw 2015-08-28 W 4-1 8.0 3 1 1 14 85 Rick Honeycutt 1987-05-12 W 7-0 9.0 4 0 1 6 84 John Purdin 1964-09-30 W 2-0 9.0 2 0 1 2 84 Bob Miller 1963-04-17 W 1-0 9.0 3 0 2 5 84 Don Drysdale 1962-09-10 W 8-1 8.0 3 0 1 9 84 Vicente Padilla 2010-07-11 W 7-0 8.0 2 0 1 6 83 Fernando Valenzuela 1990-04-27 W 5-0 9.0 4 0 0 4 83 Don Drysdale 1967-07-15 W 5-1 9.0 5 1 0 10 83 Don Drysdale 1967-05-14(1) W 2-1 10.0 5 1 1 6 83 Ismael Valdez 1995-08-16 W 6-1 9.0 7 0 0 11 82 Orel Hershiser 1989-07-18 W 4-1 9.0 4 0 0 5 82 Nick Willhite 1963-06-16(2) W 2-0 9.0 5 0 1 6 82 Chan Ho Park 1997-08-11 W 2-1 9.0 4 1 1 7 81 Andy Messersmith 1975-07-21 L 0-1 9.0 6 0 0 8 81 Don Sutton 1973-05-02 W 4-1 9.0 6 0 1 9 81 Sandy Koufax 1966-08-13 W 6-1 9.0 5 1 3 11 81 Don Drysdale 1965-07-15 W 5-0 9.0 3 0 3 3 81 Bob Welch 1986-04-30 W 4-0 9.0 6 0 1 6 80
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Generated 5/26/2017.
- Posted in: Game Scores and Strikeout Leaderboards per opponent per field ♦ LAD Leaderboards ♦ Uncategorized
- Tagged: Andy Messersmith, Bill Singer, Bob Miller, Bob Welch, Chan-Ho Park, Clayton Kershaw, Don Drysdale, Don Sutton, Fernando Valenzuela, Hiroki Kuroda, Ismael Valdez, John Purdin, Nick Willhite, Rick Honeycut, Ricky Nolasco, Sandy Koufax, Tim Belcher, Vicente Padilla
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Wow I remember that card on the right.
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Purdin is the only player on the list whom I did not remember.
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I don’t think I ever had a baseball card for Nick Willhite so I don’t have any memory of him. He pitched quite a game and I’d had looked it up if not for John Purdin grabbing my attention.
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He was included in a series of artists renditions of team portraits given away at the 76 gas stations. There was a 76 station on the corner near my house and I collected them all.
I put them in a manila envelope.
Later, 76 took the same pictures and put them in plastic cups.
They were pretty sturdy, we used them at home.
When one finally got damaged, I took them out of circulation .
Somehow these survived the remodel of the bedroom closet when I went to college.
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