As the new season approaches with its universal DH, we recommend everyone read this excellent article by the excellent Tim Kurkjian at ESPN:
It's a look back at the highlights and lowlights of big-league pitchers at the bat, over 120-some years of baseball history. And we're constrained to mention, perhaps yet again, that we were in attendance at two of the greatest hitting days by any pitcher, both of which Mr Kurkjian recalls-- Atlanta's Tony Cloninger's two grand slams on July 3, 1966, against (all together now) our Giants, and Yankees' rookie Mel Stottlemyre going 5-for-5 and pitching a two-hit shutout against the Washington Senators at old D.C. Stadium, our first major-league game.
As an aside we'll note that Cloninger's two blasts weren't the only home runs hit by pitchers that day at Candlestick: Ray Sadecki of the Giants, who gave up one of the grand slams, himself homered off Cloninger a couple of innings later.
The season starts in 4 days! We'll see you soon.
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