Friday, April 13, 2007

No thanks for the memory

How about that. Tim Kurkjian, who writes for ESPN The Magazine (and is a frequent guest on ESPN radio's "Mike and Mike in the Morning" has posted an article today about Pirates reliever Salomon Torres.

Kurkjian addresses Torres' unfortunate experience in the final game of the 1993 season and offers this: "It's a shame that anyone remembers Torres for that day."

Sorry, Tim. I dredged up those bad memories two days ago in one of my trivia questions. But that's after Torres blew a save one day, then took the loss the next.

Just venting.

But in all fairness to Torres, read Kurkjian's account of Salomon's long, strange trip around baseball. Then to try forgive and forget.

Trivia question 18: He's recognized as one of the best pitchers plying his trade today. But in 2000, he went 4-7 with a 10.64 earned run average, which I believe to be the highest ERA in baseball history for a pitcher with 10 or more decisions. (It could have been a lot worse. In his final appearance of the season, at Baltimore, he allowed seven runs in two-thirds of an inning during a 23-1 drubbing by the Orioles. But none of those runs were earned.) Who is this hurler who has turned it around?

1 comment:

Zoooma said...

Tim Kurkjian is also a member of ESPN's Baseball Tonight, my favorite show on TV!