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Originally Posted by Arsenal14
Game Score was 102 for that game. Second highest for a nine inning game in MLB history. Highest was Kerry Wood's 20 strikeout shutout in 1998 which got a 105.
Scoring is calculated as (stolen from Wikipedia):
Start with 50 points.
Add one point for each out recorded, so three points for every complete inning pitched.
Add two points for each inning completed after the fourth.
Add one point for each strikeout.
Subtract two points for each hit allowed.
Subtract four points for each earned run allowed.
Subtract two points for each unearned run allowed.
Subtract one point for each walk.
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This was by far the best pitched game I have ever seen in my lifetime. If you factor in opponent, striking out 17 and 1 hitting a loaded Yankees lineup in Yankee stadium is about as good as it ever is going to get.
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/11/sp...e-yankees.html
This quote is still hard to imagine, because this many years later with all the advances, and considering Pedro was a pretty slight guy, I don't know anyone else who can throw 97 mph fastballs to the first and last batter of a complete game:
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As if he could fool anybody. As if the Yankees had any chance. Derek Jeter was Martinez's first strikeout victim, on a 97 mile-an-hour fastball in the first inning, and Chuck Knoblauch was his 17th, the last out of the game, on a 97 m.p.h. fastball. Every Yankee hitter struck out at least once, including Darryl Strawberry, who pinch-hit in the ninth inning.
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