TV Alert: Watch Clemens Strike Out 20 Tigers
by Ian Casselberry on Feb 7, 2009 1:00 PM EST
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Tomorrow is apparently "20 Strikeouts Day" on MLB Network. Four games in which a pitcher struck out 20 batters will be shown, beginning at noon.
Of course, that list includes the game from September 18, 1996 at Tiger Stadium, in which Roger Clemens, pitching for the Boston Red Sox, racked up 20 Ks against the Detroit Tigers. The broadcast is at 3 p.m. EST. (The game will be shown again at 5:30 a.m.)
Detroit's starting pitcher that night was Justin Thompson. The top five of the batting order was Bobby Higginson, Alan Trammell, Ruben Sierra, Tony Clark, and Travis Fryman. Fryman may have done the most to make Clemens look good, striking out four times.
You can view the boxscore of the game here, thanks to Retrosheet.org.
That Tigers team, you might remember (or choose not to), went on to finish last in the AL East that season with a 53-109 record. Yowza.
(Hat tip to Motown Sports, via twitter.com/tweetingtigers)
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I remeber re-watching this a couple years ago on Classic. We had just traded Fielder to NYY, so we had Sierra in the four-hole, followed by a stellar back of the lineup, including Melvin Nieves, Phil Nevin, & Kimmera Bartee…simply awful, LOL! This was towards the end for Tram, he was playing second and Higgy was just breaking in, as I recall. Basically, the Tigers were playing out the string and Clemens was in a contract dispute, about to leave the Red Sox, after multiple lousy years.
Ironically, he “discovered” physical fitness (and the “little helper”?) thereafter…weird.
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I remember the game well….
Along with the game being played at Michigan and Trumbull, Ernie Harwell was doing the play-by-play on TV for the Tigers at the time.
Two good reasons to watch again: Harwell and Tiger Stadium
Zap, if you have Comcast Digital, you should have access to the MLB Network, or at least that’s what I thought.
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