Big and Little D dominate 1 – 0 loser list
I was right about Don Sutton leading the Dodgers in losing 1 – 0 games but he had company from his big brother Don Drysdale. They both did it a staggering nine times. This points to two things. They were both incredible pitchers, and they both pitched for some bad offensive teams.
The list below only shows pitchers who had the dirty deed done to them more than once.
Notes from the list:
- I was quite surprised to see that Orel Hershiser lost eight 1 – 0 games.
- Fernando and Burt Hooten did it seven times, showing once again just how underrated Burt Hooten was.
- Chad Billingsley had some company with his five 1- 0 losses.
- Andy Messersmith stands out because Andy lost his five games in only three years.
- Bill Singer, Bob Welch, Doug Rau, and Claude Osteen had it happen four times.
- Sandy Koufax only did it three times. Evidently, the Dodgers scored more runs for Koufax than they did for Drysdale even though Drysdale was one of the premier hitting pitchers in his time.
- Derek was the only member of the three-time loser club.
- The two timers included Alan Foster, Jerry Ruess, Johnny Podres, Ramon Martinez, Tim Belcher, Tom Candiotti, and Zack Greinke
Player Date Rslt IP H ER BB SO GSc Alan Foster 1969-05-23 L 0-1 8.0 3 1 4 5 73 Alan Foster 1967-09-27 L 0-1 7.0 4 1 1 8 72 Andy Messersmith 1974-06-11 L 0-1 9.0 4 0 1 4 80 Andy Messersmith 1973-08-08 L 0-1 8.0 6 1 3 7 70 Andy Messersmith 1975-08-02 L 0-1 8.0 2 1 4 7 77 Andy Messersmith 1975-07-21 L 0-1 9.0 6 0 0 8 81 Andy Messersmith 1975-07-04 L 0-1 7.0 6 1 4 2 59 Bill Singer 1971-05-15 L 0-1 7.0 2 1 4 6 71 Bill Singer 1969-06-04 L 0-1 9.0 2 0 0 10 93 Bill Singer 1969-06-12 L 0-1 9.0 4 1 2 12 85 Bill Singer 1968-08-08 L 0-1 9.0 5 1 3 6 76 Bob Welch 1987-08-16 L 0-1 8.0 4 0 3 5 76 Bob Welch 1986-09-02 L 0-1 8.2 6 1 1 9 76 Bob Welch 1986-07-08 L 0-1 7.0 3 0 0 6 75 Bob Welch 1984-06-17 L 0-1 6.0 5 1 0 5 63 Burt Hooton 1984-09-07 L 0-1 8.0 2 0 2 4 80 Burt Hooton 1978-04-29 L 0-1 7.0 2 1 2 3 70 Burt Hooton 1978-08-01 L 0-1 8.1 5 1 2 3 70 Burt Hooton 1978-04-11 L 0-1 6.0 4 1 0 2 62 Burt Hooton 1977-08-06 L 0-1 8.2 6 1 3 6 71 Burt Hooton 1976-09-28 L 0-1 8.0 4 0 3 3 72 Burt Hooton 1976-06-25 L 0-1 9.0 4 1 2 5 78 Chad Billingsley 2010-04-25 L 0-1 6.0 4 1 2 5 63 Chad Billingsley 2008-04-13 L 0-1 5.0 4 1 2 8 61 Chad Billingsley 2007-08-03 L 0-1 7.2 5 1 2 8 71 Chad Billingsley 2007-08-08 L 0-1 5.0 6 1 4 3 50 Chad Billingsley 2011-05-14 L 0-1 8.0 1 0 2 8 84 Claude Osteen 1972-05-24 L 0-1 8.0 3 1 1 4 75 Claude Osteen 1968-07-11 L 0-1 7.0 6 1 0 3 64 Claude Osteen 1967-07-09 L 0-1 9.2 9 1 2 7 72 Claude Osteen 1965-06-21 L 0-1 9.0 2 1 3 5 81 Derek Lowe 2008-09-21 L 0-1 7.0 5 0 3 7 71 Derek Lowe 2008-06-29 L 0-1 7.0 5 1 2 7 68 Derek Lowe 2007-06-09 L 0-1 9.0 4 1 0 3 78 Don Drysdale 1968-07-24 L 0-1 8.0 4 1 2 3 71 Don Drysdale 1964-06-28 L 0-1 8.0 7 1 4 5 65 Don Drysdale 1964-06-03 L 0-1 10.1 4 0 4 10 89 Don Drysdale 1964-07-21 L 0-1 9.0 5 1 1 9 81 Don Drysdale 1964-09-27 L 0-1 10.0 3 0 2 6 90 Don Drysdale 1964-09-22 L 0-1 8.0 5 1 2 6 72 Don Drysdale 1963-06-28 L 0-1 9.0 7 1 1 7 75 Don Drysdale 1960-04-20 L 0-1 8.0 5 1 0 5 73 Don Drysdale 1960-08-17 L 0-1 8.1 4 1 2 8 77 Don Sutton 1972-05-07 L 0-1 10.0 1 0 4 3 89 Don Sutton 1972-06-24(1) L 0-1 8.0 8 1 1 6 67 Don Sutton 1970-08-28 L 0-1 9.0 5 1 3 7 77 Don Sutton 1968-06-10 L 0-1 10.0 5 1 3 10 85 Don Sutton 1968-05-16 L 0-1 7.0 7 1 1 4 62 Don Sutton 1968-07-28(2) L 0-1 7.0 6 1 0 7 68 Don Sutton 1977-06-03 L 0-1 9.0 5 0 2 2 77 Don Sutton 1976-06-17 L 0-1 9.0 6 0 2 4 77 Don Sutton 1976-09-17(1) L 0-1 11.0 6 0 3 6 88 Doug Rau 1972-10-01 L 0-1 8.0 3 0 4 4 74 Doug Rau 1977-09-05 L 0-1 7.0 4 0 1 4 70 Doug Rau 1977-07-25 L 0-1 7.0 7 1 1 2 60 Doug Rau 1976-08-04 L 0-1 8.0 4 1 2 2 70 Fernando Valenzuela 1989-06-02 L 0-1 7.0 5 1 2 5 66 Fernando Valenzuela 1987-06-11 L 0-1 9.0 7 1 5 6 70 Fernando Valenzuela 1985-04-28 L 0-1 9.0 2 1 1 10 88 Fernando Valenzuela 1983-09-16 L 0-1 7.0 5 1 2 7 68 Fernando Valenzuela 1982-09-04 L 0-1 9.0 4 1 2 11 84 Fernando Valenzuela 1981-10-01 L 0-1 8.0 5 0 2 7 75 Fernando Valenzuela 1989-04-29 L 0-1 7.0 4 0 1 1 69 Jerry Reuss 1982-07-25 L 0-1 8.0 6 1 2 5 69 Jerry Reuss 1981-04-21 L 0-1 8.0 8 1 0 2 64 Johnny Podres 1962-09-30 L 0-1 9.0 5 1 0 7 80 Johnny Podres 1960-08-19 L 0-1 8.2 3 0 3 2 75 Orel Hershiser 1989-04-27 L 0-1 7.0 3 1 1 4 70 Orel Hershiser 1987-10-03 L 0-1 8.0 3 1 2 5 75 Orel Hershiser 1986-04-08 L 0-1 9.0 9 1 2 4 67 Orel Hershiser 1993-06-24 L 0-1 9.0 8 1 2 4 69 Orel Hershiser 1992-06-20 L 0-1 8.0 6 1 3 6 69 Orel Hershiser 1989-09-08 L 0-1 7.0 7 1 4 6 61 Orel Hershiser 1989-09-24 L 0-1 7.0 8 1 2 5 60 Orel Hershiser 1989-08-28 L 0-1 8.0 8 1 1 4 65 Ramon Martinez 1994-04-07 L 0-1 8.0 6 1 1 10 75 Ramon Martinez 1989-08-07 L 0-1 8.0 4 1 2 9 77 Sandy Koufax 1964-05-27 L 0-1 7.0 3 1 5 7 69 Sandy Koufax 1963-06-01 L 0-1 7.0 3 1 1 10 76 Sandy Koufax 1960-09-03 L 0-1 7.0 7 1 2 6 63 Tim Belcher 1988-09-16 L 0-1 8.0 3 0 1 7 80 Tim Belcher 1991-08-09 L 0-1 8.2 5 0 2 4 76 Tom Candiotti 1995-07-06 L 0-1 8.0 3 0 0 5 81 Tom Candiotti 1992-06-02 L 0-1 7.0 5 1 4 4 63 Zack Greinke 2015-06-23 L 0-1 6.0 3 0 2 5 69 Zack Greinke 2013-09-28 L 0-1 6.0 4 1 0 7 67
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Beautiful loser
Where you gonna fall
When you realize that you just can’t have it all?
I love these lists.
Having seen every pitcher on this list play at Dodger Stadium, I consider myself very fortunate.
Tom Candiotti was a fav of mine. Relying on the knuckleball I always felt like he was an underdog.
Johnny Podres was one of the first pitchers who I became notable to me in my. earliest days of fandom. Vin loved Podres, his call dripping with resigned dismay when Podres struggled at the end of his career.
I have the 45 rpm record of Vin’s Bill Singer call.
For some reason, I put Alan Foster on a pedestal when he arrived in Dodger Blue.
The yearning for more greatness to replace the void Koufax left behind was powerful.
Heh, the Times wrote an article about Sutton describing the day before his first start.
He couldn’t sleep and threw up. Weird memory.
Andy Messersmith sure changed things around.
Bob Welch, that first K of Jackson was very Pete Richertish for me.
Doug Rau is often overlooked. He was not flashy, Always a workmanlike performance. Win or lose.
Valenzuela, he really was magical.
Could not believe the Dodgers good fortune when Ruess came over from Pittsburgh.
Hershiser was my eldest son’s first fav as a youngster. All things Hershiser were in his room.
Like Messersmith, Greinke did not have the good sense to stay with the Dodgers.
Wish I could have been there to see Greinke stopping the bus and throwing Puig’s bags out onto the street. Makes me chuckle just imagining the scene..
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All that, and once again The Owl Burt Hooton remains unappreciated:)
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Happy Hooten and the knuckle curve.
My dad and I popped into a lounge near the office to watch the play off game against the Phillies. The close up on Happy’s face as Hooten was in the midst of trying to find his way sticks with me. Said to my dad, “He doesn’t look so happy!”
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