If someone like Jeff Fassero or Terry Mulholland pitched for Tampa or KC their ERAs would jump like Mexican beans. Those defenses couldn’t shield them from their true level of suckitude.
That’s the game! Do you happen to remember who the Phils were playing and when that was?
Charlie Hayes. Damn. We’re walking through my childhood right now. First person to mention the names “Carter” and/or “Mitch” gets a fat lip.
Troy actually mentioned it upthread – it was the Giants, summer of 1990.
So I was seven after than nine. Great memories.
You got that right. I was eight. Sesame Place in the morning, Terry Mulholland no hitter in the afternoon, emergency room at night. The trifecta.
AHEM.
Box seats, third base line. 
Watched Hayes make the error – but he also made the play on a well-hit liner with two outs in the ninth.
So long as Mulholland is still pitching, I’m not old yet.
I hear ya, Furt. As much as I dread his actually pitching, I am happy to see there are members of my favorite baseball team older than me. Oops, I guess I shouldn’t have put the “s” on that word “member.”
I think, to his credit, that he’s one of only three teams to have defeated all 30 MLB teams in his career. Makes for a good trivia question (anyone know the other two without googling?)…
He is. The last team he beat was the Tigers… the same team that clobbered him a few days ago and prompted this thread.
The giant, leaky space vulva is a nice ballpark?
I would guess Randy Johnson and Kevin Brown. I can’t think of anyone else who’s been good in both leagues for at least two teams in each league.
I was hoping somebody would come in and guess, because I was going to say Johnson and Al Leiter.
Er, and the reason that has something to do with other people guessing is that I wasn’t sure about Johnson, since he didn’t win that many games in the AL, and I was hoping someone else would have a really good one.
David Cone (only played for the Mets that I know of in the NL, but could have beat them during interleague)? Of course, you don’t need to be good necessarily, just around long enough in both leagues. Someone like Al Leiter or someone. Did Kevin Appier spend much time in the NL?
As it turns out, Randy Johnson won a shitload of games in the AL, and Al Leiter didn’t. Very well.
Oh, this includes retired pitchers?
In that case I guess it might be Cone. I’m shocked Mulholland did it, so I really have no idea.
Randy Johnson has never beaten the Diamondbacks. Clemens only needs the Astros, Braves and Dodgers… doubt he’ll do that. Pedro needs just the Red Sox to make 30.
I doubt Cone ever beat the Diamonbacks - almost all of the tail end of his career was in the AL.
Kevin Brown has beatan all thirty teams. That damn Red Sox closer is another.
No way it was Schilling, last year was his only AL year in which he had a significant number of victories. He’s certainly a guy who could join that list in another year or two though if he makes a full recovery as a front-line starter.
My best guess is Brown and Leiter, since both of them spent significant amounts of time with one team in each league, spent at least some time with one other team in each league, and have bunches of wins with many of those teams. Brown is almost definite (almost the perfect guy for this since he moved around so damn much, especially for a pitcher of his caliber), Leiter is more of a maybe but I can’t think of anyone more likely.
Well…according to this…
Al Leiter was the first. I couldn’t find any cites on the other one though.
Well, in addition to Mulholland, only Kevin Brown and Al Leiter have beaten all 30 teams… Randy Johnson, Woody Williams, Hideo Nomo and Sterling Hitchcock - have beaten 29 of 30 teams.
This is from 2004, right before Mulholland did it, so there’s a chance one of the others have, but I seriously doubt it.