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Wake Up With Wade Boggs Tossing Knuckleballs In His Pitching Debut. Wait, What?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thfNB51JMmc
I was today years old when I found out that Wade Boggs pitched a scoreless inning and was throwing knuckleballs. Not only could the guy hit a million balls, drink a billion beers, he could also have a 0.00 ERA. What couldn't the Chicken Man do? He came into a 9-4 game in which the Yankees were losing to the Angels. Joe Torre prob didn't want to burn another arm, so why not throw Boggs? The announcers said Boggs used to work on throwing a knuckler, Midas whale let the big dog eat.
He pitched a scoreless 9th, struck out one, walked one, and only had to throw 17 pitches. Not too shabby. Gotta love him tipping his cap as he headed off the mound too, Torre sitting in the bullpen smiling ear to ear too was pretty funny. You normally get funny and quirky things happening when a position player takes the mound, but rarely is that position player a member of the 3,000 hit club and is chuckin knucks. Kinda bullshit they didn't include his ERA on his HOF plaque IMO.