Hey, Joe
In case you missed the Pirates game Wednesday night, San Diego's Joe Thatcher pitched 2 scoreless and hitless innings against the Bucs with two strikeouts. Thatcher, you might recall from an earlier post on this blog, pitched for River City in 2005 and is the only former Frontier Leaguer to play at Consol Energy Park and make it to the majors. So far, Thatcher is 0-0 with a 0.64 ERA in 15 games for the Padres. He has pitched 14 innings, allowing 6 hits and 4 walks with 8 strikeouts.
posted by Chris Dugan at
11:16 PM
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I wonder if Joe talked to the media after the game?
WHO REALLY CARES if he talked to the media!!!
At the risk of sounding like the president of the Joe Thatcher fan club, Thatcher pitched 1 1/3 perfect innings Monday night in the NL wild-card tiebreaker game. He entered in the bottom of the 11th with the potential game-winning run on second base and struck out Brad Hawpe to end the inning. Thatcher pitched a scoreless 12th inning and had two strikeouts. He was in line to be the winning pitcher until Trevor Hoffman blew a save in the 13th.
Going from the Frontier League to a major-league tiebreaker game in two years is quite an accomplishment.
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