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CobbWebb
The Giants' starting pitchers in todays double header vs. The Mets.
Alex Cobb will start Game 1. Logan Webb will start Game 2.
Then there's this:
The 1980s gave us several starts of Mike Mason vs. Ken Dixon: Mason-Dixon. More recently, we have had Minor-Leake, Diamond-Sale, Cole-Hahn, Lee-Strasburg, Nova-Cain (we regret, however, that Chad Moeller didn't catch in that game), Gray-Nola, Nola-Gray, Cole-Minor, Cole-Hamels and Ray-Romano. When Brian Bannister started against Gavin Floyd, we had the Floyd-Bannister; Floyd Bannister, a former pitcher, is Brian's father.
The 1990s Giants started a battery of Bud Black and Steve Decker: Black and Decker. The 1980s Tigers started a battery of Glenn Abbott and Marty Castillo: Abbott and Castillo. The 1960s Phillies double-play combo was shortstop Bobby Wine and second baseman Cookie Rojas; those were known as the Days of Wine and Rojas. In 2018-19, the Pirates had Kevin Newman at shortstop and Kevin Kramer at second: Newman and Kramer.
And yet, we will never understand how in 2013, with all these name connections in baseball history, Cubs manager Dale Sveum could have given second baseman Darwin Barney the day off against the Dodgers' Stephen Fife, preventing the first Barney-Fife at-bat in major league history. I waited for years for that and missed by one game.
More silliness at the link: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29287050/tim-kurkjian-baseball-fix-newman-kramer-bush-league-great-name-combinations-baseball-history
The 1990s Giants started a battery of Bud Black and Steve Decker: Black and Decker. The 1980s Tigers started a battery of Glenn Abbott and Marty Castillo: Abbott and Castillo. The 1960s Phillies double-play combo was shortstop Bobby Wine and second baseman Cookie Rojas; those were known as the Days of Wine and Rojas. In 2018-19, the Pirates had Kevin Newman at shortstop and Kevin Kramer at second: Newman and Kramer.
And yet, we will never understand how in 2013, with all these name connections in baseball history, Cubs manager Dale Sveum could have given second baseman Darwin Barney the day off against the Dodgers' Stephen Fife, preventing the first Barney-Fife at-bat in major league history. I waited for years for that and missed by one game.
More silliness at the link: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29287050/tim-kurkjian-baseball-fix-newman-kramer-bush-league-great-name-combinations-baseball-history
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