Tonight’s bal lgame between the Toronto Blue Jays and Chicago White Sox featured two starting pitchers with exactly 99 career wins: Roy Halladay (99-50) for the Blue Jays, and Mark Buerhle (99-67) for the White Sox. Therefore, both Halladay and Buerhle were vying to win their 100th career game in the same game. As it happened, Halladay won the game, so is now 100-50 for his career.
I’ll grant that 100 wins is not a huge accomplishment or anything but most pitchers don’t win 100 games - you have to be pretty good to win that many, especially with the winning percentages of Halladay and Buerhle. I find it amazingly coincidental that two players would be going for such a notable milestone in the same game. Has this sort of thing ever occurred in baseball or any other sport? Say, two football players going for 2,000 yards in the same game, or two hockey players with 499 career goals facing off, or something like that?