Old knuckleballers, such as Phil Niekro, came out of the woodwork to comment on and praise Dickey. The knuckleball's unpredictability is just plain fun to watch, especially with Dickey's amazing way of controlling the uncontrollable pitch.
When he won the Cy Young Award, he won it for knuckleball pitchers everywhere. He's a good-deed-doer: While many athletes spend their free time committing crimes or tweeting inane idiocies, Dickey climbed Mt. He also penned his autobiography, confessing that he was sexually abused as a minor, and now he's an outspoken advocate to end that evil. He's damn good: If Dickey weren't any good, then all the other stuff wouldn't mean very much, or at least we may have never learned about it.
He's had three seasons where he's been one of the elite pitchers in the National League, with his Cy Young being the icing on the cake and a tangible prize for his production on the mound. Besides winning 20 games and leading the NL in strikeouts, innings pitched, complete games and shutouts, he had a streak of He also threw a one-hitter in , vs.
In his three years with the Mets, Dickey went , with a 2. Received a no-decision in the loss after going 6. Became the first pitcher in Mets history to go in his first seven starts with his 8. Previously, three pitchers had gone in their first five starts Ray Sadecki, ; Harrry Parker, ; and Terry Leach, who did it over a four-year span, No one other than Dickey went in their first six starts Established a career-high six-game winning streak from May June During the streak, recorded a 2.
His previous winning streak was four straight games from August 3-August 20, Lasted 5. That snapped a career-high streak of seven consecutive starts with at least 6. His previous high was five consecutive turns with at least 6.
He went at least 7. Allowed consecutive home runs to Melky Cabrera and Omar Infante in his start against Atlanta on July 9 to snap a career-high string of His start on July 29 came on three-days rest Became just the second pitcher over the past four seasons to start a game on short rest no more than three days between starts and throw more than 8.
The other was Johan Santana who accomplished the feat in a shutout win for the Mets against the Marlins on the next to last day of the season Allowed a run in the second inning of his start on August 3 to snap a career-best The streak dated back to the fifth inning of his start on July 20 at Arizona Won a career high-setting 10th game on September 8 at Washington Went 6.
Did not walk a batter for the fourth time Set a career-high with his second complete game of the season, beating the Pirates at Citi Field on September Struck out four and allowed five hits Also in that contest, he recorded his 95th strikeout to set a career-high His previous best was 94 strikeouts in with Texas. Earned the win with 5. Moved to the bullpen and made 34 more appearances Recorded nine consecutive scoreless outings Went at least 4.
Was designated for assignment on August 29th Threw a complete game shutout on August 26th vs. Lehigh Valley.
Kansas City, marking his first game in the Majors in over two years April 6, Detroit, allowing eight hits and seven runs in 3. Was designated for assignment on April 23rd Was outrighted to Oklahoma on April 26th Made four trips to the Disabled List during the season with a sore right shoulder.
Los Angeles of Anaheim, allowing a solo homer to Orlando Cabrera to lead off the 10th inning Los Angeles of Anaheim due to injury Baltimore, allowing 3 runs in 7. Seattle, despite allowing 6 runs in 5. Oklahoma: Went , 5. Nashville, allowing 3 runs in 7. Summary: Made Opening Day roster as Rangers' 4th starter Boston, falling one out shy of a shutout Seattle to earn win, allowing just one baserunner Other Notes: Earned 2nd career save on Sept.
Anaheim in club's home finale, one of 4 Texas relievers with a save last season Texas was in his 13 starts Montreal in San Juan Minnesota and the 12th CG shutout ever for a Texas rookie, the second in the last 15 seasons California and CG shutout on July 29, game one at Oakland. Salt Lake City, despite allowing one run in 8 innings Las Vegas Led the RedHawks in innings Ranked 4th in the Rangers' minor league organization in saves Set career-highs in wins, starts, innings and strikeouts The 38 saves were the 2nd most in the minors in and tied the Rangers minor league record for saves Kerry Lacy, , Charleston-Charlotte Also led the FSL with 54 games finished Was named to the FSL post-season all-star team Held opposing hitters to a.
Did not allow an er in 1st 6 outings, Apr. Was , with 19 saves and a 3. Had 5-game save streaks May and May June Did not allow a run in a season-high 7 straight games, May June Then, he threw the best game of his career. The first inning starts with two weak groundballs to short, then a strikeout of Chris Davis with knuckler at the top of the zone. After two more grounders retire the side, Dickey starts the third with back-to-back strikeouts of Wilson Betemit and Steve Pearce.
He then loses opposing pitcher Jake Arrieta on a walk before making short work of Brian Roberts for his fifth punch out:. Three ground-outs take care of the fourth, followed by a pair of strikeouts to open the fifth inning. After the Reynolds strikeout, Dickey surrenders his second baserunner of the evening, this time a single to right-center by Betemit.
A fly out by Pearce begins a new run of eight straight retired by Dickey, including two more strikeouts:. Betemit works a walk with one out in the eighth, becoming the final Oriole to reach base. It takes barely more time to complete this performance than it will have taken you to read this recap of it. What did hitters need time to think about anyway? They knew what was coming. With this start, Dickey becomes the first pitcher since Dave Stieb in to throw one-hit complete games in back-to-back starts, and the first National League pitcher to do so since If we use a measure better equipped to take his incredible strikeout-to-walk numbers into account, Dickey becomes just the second pitcher of the expansion era to record a game score of at least 95 in back-to-back starts.
His streak of But Dickey did. And although his career got off to an unremarkable start, he and his cartoon-esque pitch have potentially danced their way to this year's All-Star game.
With a record of and an incredible ERA of 2. Maybe it's his dancing knuckleball and low 80's fastball. Or it could be that in his first start with the pitch, Dickey surrendered six home runs. Additionally, Dickey has the MLB record for wild pitches in an inning with four.
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