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re: FWIW... Maddog's Cooperstown Plaque...
Posted on 7/27/14 at 2:02 pm to Prettyboy Floyd
Posted on 7/27/14 at 2:02 pm to Prettyboy Floyd
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Maddux had a backdoor cutter that literally would move all the way across the plate like a thing of beauty.
Yep, the awesome movement on Maddox's pitches is what separated him from the rest like Glavine who, while a solid pitcher, had very little movement on any of his pitches.
Posted on 7/27/14 at 2:33 pm to davesdawgs
Date: July 22, 1997
Teams: Braves at Cubs
Time of game: 2:07
Pitches: 76
Strikes: 63
Maddux threw 76 pitches in a complete game, and he threw strikes with 83 percent of his pitches. He went to a two-ball count twice, and he didn't throw a ball in the third or fifth innings.
Teams: Braves at Cubs
Time of game: 2:07
Pitches: 76
Strikes: 63
Maddux threw 76 pitches in a complete game, and he threw strikes with 83 percent of his pitches. He went to a two-ball count twice, and he didn't throw a ball in the third or fifth innings.
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Dale Murphy was 2-for-34 against Maddux in his career. Both hits came in the same game, a loss to Maddux and the Cubs.
Maddux started 740 games. In 236 of them, he didn't allow a walk.
He went to a 3-0 count to five batters in 1997. He faced 893 batters that season.
He walked the leadoff hitter of an inning in 0.3 percent of the time.
He didn't allow a triple in 1995 or 2000.
Maddux had 24 quality starts in 25 attempts in 1994.
He gave up as many home runs in his first five seasons with the Braves (1156 innings) as Bronson Arroyo did in 2011.
Maddux's career batting average on balls put in play (BABiP) was .286 -- the same mark as Bruce Chen, and higher than Scott Elarton
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