{"id":1653530,"date":"2022-09-22T13:39:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T17:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1653530"},"modified":"2022-09-22T13:40:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T17:40:08","slug":"biggest-coward-in-baseball-yankees-fans-rip-pitcher-who-avoided-judges-61st-home-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biggest-coward-in-baseball-yankees-fans-rip-pitcher-who-avoided-judges-61st-home-run\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Biggest Coward In Baseball\u2019: Yankees Fans Rip Pitcher Who Avoided Judge\u2019s 61st Home Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiggest-coward-in-baseball-yankees-fans-rip-pitcher-who-avoided-judges-61st-home-run%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1653530&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>New York Yankees fans blistered Pittsuburg Pirates\u2019 pitcher Eric Stout for avoiding the possibility of giving up a record-tying home run to Yankees\u2019 slugger Aaron Judge after Stout threw four straight pitches out of the strike zone, walking Judge on four pitches.<\/p>\n<p>It was clear that Judge\u2019s at-bat against Stout would be his last of the game, as it came in the eighth inning with the Yankees leading 11-2. There would be no reason to try to pitch around Judge as the game was not even close to being on the line; Judge has 60 home runs, and his 61st would tie the American League record held by the Yankees\u2019 Roger Maris.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Eric Stout wanted zero part of history.<\/p>\n<p>4 balls not even CLOSE to Aaron Judge <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gp3WgehOEp\">pic.twitter.com\/gp3WgehOEp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Starting 9 (@Starting9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Starting9\/status\/1572764738471297024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEric Stout is the biggest coward in baseball,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/mlb\/article-11237535\/Yankees-fans-call-Eric-Stout-biggest-coward-baseball-walked-Aaron-Judge.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote one fan<\/a> on social media. Another chimed in, \u201cIf you walk Aaron Judge on four pitches in garbage time the crowd should be allowed to throw batteries at you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pitchers who have given up legendary home runs have been immortalized by baseball fans, who largely cherish records and statistics more than fans in any other sport. The history of baseball is replete with such pitchers; here are some examples.<\/p>\n<p>In 1927, the Washington Senators\u2019 Tom Zachary gave up Babe Ruth\u2019s famed 60th homer of the season, a record not to be broken until Maris came along 34 years later. Ironically, two years later, Zachary, as a member of the Yankees, boasted an unbelievable 12-0 record, the major league record for most pitching wins without a loss in one season.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>In 1932, Ruth immortalized another pitcher, this time the Chicago Cubs\u2019 Charlie Root, when he famously \u201ccalled his shot\u201d after having two strikes on him in the fifth inning of Game 3 of the 1932 World Series. With the Cubs heckling him from the bench, Ruth pointed his bat toward the center field bleachers. If he weren\u2019t already considered immortal by baseball fans, this cemented his incredible legacy.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>In 1951, in \u201cThe shot heard round the world,\u201d Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca was vicitimized by the New York Giants Bobby Thomson in the bottom of the ninth inning of the third game of their playoff series to determine which team would go to the World Series. The Giants had made an amazing run to catch the Dodgers, winning 37 of their last 44 games. What got lost in the aftermath of the game was that Thomson had already hit a home run against Branca in the first game of the series, which the Giants won 3-1. Branca started the first game; in the third he was brought in as a relief pitcher.<\/p>\n<p>Just to illustrate how dramatic Thomson\u2019s homer was, over forty years later a Marine who had been stationed in Korea in 1951 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/sport-obituaries\/7954858\/Bobby-Thomson.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent him a letter<\/a> that stated:<\/p>\n<p><em>I was in a bunker in the front line with my buddy listening to the radio. It was contrary to orders, but he was a Giants fanatic. He never made it home and I promised him if I ever got back I\u2019d write and tell you about the happiest moment of his life. It\u2019s taken me this long to put my feelings into words. On behalf of my buddy, thanks, Bobby.<\/em><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Although Bill Mazeroski\u2019s seventh game 9th inning home run won the 1960 World series over the Yankees in one of the most dramatic Series ever played, Ralph Terry, who won the seventh game two years later against the San Francisco Giants to clinch the World Series, has not been made quite as famous as some of the other pitchers for that moment.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>But the next year, Tracy Stallard of the Boston Red Sox gave up Maris\u2019 61st home run to break Ruth\u2019s record, a much-remembered baseball memory.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>In 1974, Al Downing, who had a highly successful career earlier with the Yankees, was pitching for the Dodgers when he gave up the legendary 715th home run of Hank Aaron\u2019s to break Ruth\u2019s career home run record.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>And in 1988, ace reliever Dennis Eckersley of the Oakland Athletics famously tried to throw a backdoor slider to the Dodgers injured star Kirk Gibson, and the late Vin Scully\u2019s call has itself deservedly become legendary.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Yankees fans blistered Pittsuburg Pirates\u2019 pitcher Eric Stout for avoiding the possibility of giving up a record-tying home run to Yankees\u2019 slugger Aaron Judge after Stout threw four straight pitches out of the strike zone, walking Judge on four pitches. It was clear that Judge\u2019s at-bat against Stout would be his last of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":632733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}