Your dream doubleheader pitching match-up?

[john4psu]

You are in baseball heaven. No, not Fenway Park or Wrigley Field or Dyersville, Iowa. You get to watch a double-header and you get to pick and watch the starting pitchers in their prime for each game. Who are your selections?

Game 1: Koufax vs. Seaver
Game 2: Pedro vs. Carlton

Tough not to pick Bob Gibson though. Let's play three!

 

[LionJim]

If it was for one game, I’d pick Gibson over anybody. Nobody tougher than Bob Gibson.

 

[Option Bob]

1. Koufax vs Clemens
2. Gibson vs Ryan

Over/under on how many hits and how many K’s?

 

[MtNittany]

Koufax vs. R. Johnson
Ryan vs. Gibson

 

[Monty2007]

If it was for one game, I’d pick Gibson over anybody. Nobody tougher than Bob Gibson.

Except Mickey Lolich in 1968. Greatest forgotten pitching performance ever in the World Series.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

If it was for one game, I’d pick Gibson over anybody. Nobody tougher than Bob Gibson.

His performance in the '67 and then the '68 World Series was off the charts. And yet in Game 7 of the '68 World Series, (i.e., the one game you had to win) it was Gibson that gave up the runs in the 7th inning. I realize it was on short rest, and his third start in the WS, and perhaps Curt Flood was playing too short, but after his performance that season, and in Game 1 (where he had 17 Ks against the Tigers), I really expected Gibson and the Cards to win that game.

That said, he probably would be my selection over any other pitcher, for one game.

 

[Chickenman Testa]

Koufax vs. R. Johnson
Ryan vs. Gibson

Nice!!!!!

All about the power from both sides.

My matchups were Spahn v Johnson and Ryan v Doc Gooden in his prime

 

[MtNittany]

A good no DH (of course) match-up would be Marichal vs. Drysdale. There would be an ambulance backed up to the ballpark.

 

[PearlSUJam]

Game 1: Greg Maddux vs. Clayton Kershaw

Game 2: John Smoltz vs. Randy Johnson

 

[harbest]

Game 1 Bob Feller vs Christy Mathewson

Game 2 Bob Gibson vs Don Drysdale.

 

[Victor E. Bell]

Game 1: Walter Johnson v. Cy Young
Game 2: Robin Roberts v. Bob Gibson

 

[sunshinedynomite]

Clemens v Gooden
Maddux vs smoltz
Eckersly v Rivera
Young v Ruth
Guy Junker v Stan Savern

 

[wbcincy]

Paige v Koufax
R. Johnson v Ryan

 

[Aardvark86]

Gibson v Koufax
Walter Johnson v Randy Johnson.

 

[pandaczar12]

Gibson v Koufax
Walter Johnson v Randy Johnson.

Dueling Johnson's?

 

[CF LION]

Game 1:

Gibson/Koufax


For the night cap:

The two Docs...

Ellis while on LSD vs Gooden while on coke....

 

[FHSPSU67]

Bob Friend vs Warren Spahn

Vernon Law vs Lew Burdette

 

[OhioLion]

Doesn't answer your question, but I was in high school (late 70's) and made a trip with the guys to Tiger's Stadium. Not sure who was pitching that day for Detroit, but the other team - the California Angles - had these two guys pitching the double header.
Frank Tanana and Nolan Ryan.
Can't tell you any details of that Saturday or Sunday game. But I do remember a guy in the beer line with me saying not to worry, as long as I had money, they'd serve me beer at age 17. They did.

OL

 

[bison13]

Maddux vs Feller. Precision vs Power. My second game would be Josh Hader vs Cody Morris who was just drafted in the 7th round by the Indians. That way I can re-enact a 2012 HS game that I coached.

 

[Aardvark86]

Dueling Johnson's?

You bet, and two of the best fastballs ever. I'll go with Walter, since Randy really only had a few years of true effective dominance.

 

[Aardvark86]

You bet, and two of the best fastballs ever. I'll go with Walter, since Randy really only had a few years of true effective dominance.

Another I'd love to see would be Satchell Paige (in his prime) v. any of the above.

 

[Snow Shoe Lion]

Marichal - Koufax
G. Maddux - Gibson
Anyone recall Marichal attacking Johnny Roseboro with his bat during a game in the 60s. I think it may have been the game of the week on Saturday afternoon.

 

[MtNittany]

Marichal - Koufax
G. Maddux - Gibson
Anyone recall Marichal attacking Johnny Roseboro with his bat during a game in the 60s. I think it may have been the game of the week on Saturday afternoon.

Those two teams weren't big fans of each other back then. At all.

 

[LionJim]

You bet, and two of the best fastballs ever. I'll go with Walter, since Randy really only had a few years of true effective dominance.

Walter himself said that Smoky Joe Wood was faster than he was.

 

[LionJim]

Marichal - Koufax
G. Maddux - Gibson
Anyone recall Marichal attacking Johnny Roseboro with his bat during a game in the 60s. I think it may have been the game of the week on Saturday afternoon.

I recall watching Marichal pitching at Connie Mack Stadium; I’ve never seen a more graceful pitcher. Jim Palmer was almost as smooth.

 

[MtNittany]

I recall watching Marichal pitching at Connie Mack Stadium; I’ve never seen a more graceful pitcher. Jim Palmer was almost as smooth.

In the year of the pitcher (1968) he threw 30 complete games.

 

[LionJim]

In the year of the pitcher (1968) he threw 30 complete games.

And won nary a Cy Young.

 

[LafayetteBear]

Unit vs. Lefty
Gibson vs. Koufax

Shiat. Three lefties.