Years ago, my fraternity brothers owned a bar right near Camden Yards. Used to have players in all the time. So in comes Hideki Irabu one Saturday night with his interpreter. He's pitching Sunday at 1:35 p.m. against the O's. Hideki was not the pillar of lean, and at first he was just smoking (probably two packs in 4-5 hours) then drinking Coors Lt. My buddies first got the skinny interpreter drunk first while having hot waitresses act interested.
Then Hideki was fed free beer - about a dozen or 18 - and about 6 - 8 shots of Grand Marnier, Wild Turkey, Jack, Irish Mist,etc... Hideki struggled mightily back to his hotel across the street around 2:20 a.m. (the interpreter was passed out and Irabu almost got hit at least twice attempting to cross the street).
He lasted one and one third inning on Sunday, gave us 8 or 9 runs on 11 or 12 hits - sweating like a stuck pig. I wish I had more to bet but I do remember making at least a good payoff.
Great fun screwing with an opposing pitcher, esp one that can't speak the language.
Then Hideki was fed free beer - about a dozen or 18 - and about 6 - 8 shots of Grand Marnier, Wild Turkey, Jack, Irish Mist,etc... Hideki struggled mightily back to his hotel across the street around 2:20 a.m. (the interpreter was passed out and Irabu almost got hit at least twice attempting to cross the street).
He lasted one and one third inning on Sunday, gave us 8 or 9 runs on 11 or 12 hits - sweating like a stuck pig. I wish I had more to bet but I do remember making at least a good payoff.
Great fun screwing with an opposing pitcher, esp one that can't speak the language.
lsd.............he thought he was going to have the day off....
"I can only remember bits and pieces of the game. I was psyched. I had a feeling of euphoria. I was zeroed in on the (catcher's) glove, but I didn't hit the glove too much. I remember hitting a couple of batters and the bases were loaded two or three times. The ball was small sometimes, the ball was large sometimes, sometimes I saw the catcher, sometimes I didn't. Sometimes I tried to stare the hitter down and throw while I was looking at him. I chewed my gum until it turned to powder. I started having a crazy idea in the fourth inning that Richard Nixon was the home plate umpire, and once I thought I was pitching a baseball to Jimi Hendrix, who to me was holding a guitar and swinging it over the plate. They say I had about three to four fielding chances. I remember diving out of the way of a ball I thought was a line drive. I jumped, but the ball wasn't hit hard and never reached me."
don't know but i rather see this one....
Ellis attempted to hit every batter in the Cincinnati Reds lineup on May 1, 1974, in an effort to prove a point to teammates. Ellis hit Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, and Dan Driessen in the top of the first. The clean-up batter Tony Perez avoided Ellis's attempts, instead drawing a walk, and after two pitches aimed at the head of Johnny Bench, Ellis was removed from the game by manager Danny Murtaugh. Ellis's box score for the game reads: 0 IP, 0 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 0 K.<sup id="cite_ref-snopes_6-1" class="reference">[7]</sup>
If you're looking for footage of the fabled game, you're not going to find it — no tape has ever surfaced, and Major League Baseball hasn't rushed to dig through its archives for documentation of the psychedelic affair.
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and from another website that petitioned MLB....
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I received an email from the folks over at MLB Network, our petition WORKED -- well, in that it attracted their attention -- unfortunately, they've searched their archives and MLB does NOT have any footage of the game. Or at least that's what they claim. I did ask for them to air the Dock Ellis game where he tried to bean all the Cincinnati Reds and was thrown out after the 5th batter instead. They haven't gotten back to me on that one.
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and from another website that petitioned MLB....
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I received an email from the folks over at MLB Network, our petition WORKED -- well, in that it attracted their attention -- unfortunately, they've searched their archives and MLB does NOT have any footage of the game. Or at least that's what they claim. I did ask for them to air the Dock Ellis game where he tried to bean all the Cincinnati Reds and was thrown out after the 5th batter instead. They haven't gotten back to me on that one.
