He called every pitch of Sandy Koufax’s perfect game in 1965 ... Louis Requena/MLB Photos, via Getty Images Catchers don’t get credit for no-hitters, but Torborg understood the important ...
A manager for the Mets for two seasons in the 1990s who played 10 seasons as a catcher for the Dodgers and Angels has passed away at age 83.
Hernández is 98th in S-JAWS, respectable given he threw his final pitch at age 33, and sits a hair back of the ultimate short-peak Hall of Famer, Sandy Koufax. Hernández actually has Koufax beat ...
During that time Torborg served as a bullpen coach and was among the numerous individuals in the 1980s to hold the pitching coach ... He caught Sandy Koufax’s perfect game in 1965.
Starting pitchers who reach the ballot have now spent much of their careers in an era when they pitch fewer innings ... It's also true that Sandy Koufax would be the only starting pitcher with ...
Bob Uecker was a famously mediocre Major League hitter who discovered that he was much more comfortable at a microphone than home plate. And that was just the start of a second career in entertainment ...
The Los Angeles Angels had a very loud offseason waiting mere hours after the final pitch of the 2024 World ... hitter three times in his career for Sandy Koufax, Bill Singer, and Nolan Ryan's ...
As a catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers and California Angels during a 10-year career, Torborg had the rare privilege of catching Sandy Koufax’s perfect game on September 9, 1965. He followed ...
Jeff Torborg, the former catcher who caught Sandy Koufax’s perfect game and was the 1990 AL manager of the year with the Chicago White Sox, died Sunday. He was 83. The White Sox said on social m ...
Paul Nyman's teachings are all over baseball today. But the man is absent. “He gave up,” Kyle Boddy said, “at precisely the ...