1984 Fernando-Mania strikes out the AL in San Francisco
Fernando Valenzuela teams with Dwight Gooden of the Mets to strike out 6 consecutive hitters on the 50th anniversary of Carl Hubble’s amazing 5 consecutive All-Star Game strikeouts. Similar to Hubble, Valenzuela strikes out 3 future Hall of Famers: Dave Winfield, Reggie Jackson and George Brett (Hubble struck out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons and Joe Cronin).1999 Pedro Welcomes the NL to Boston
Pedro Martinez starts the All-Star game in Boston during his record setting second Cy-Young Award winning season (Pedro won a total of three Cy-Young awards in different leagues having first won the award in Montreal in 1997 and later in 1999 and 2000 in Boston). Similar to Valenzuela, Pedro strikes out the side in the first and the next batter in the second. His victims were Barry Larkin, Larry Walker, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire earning him the victory and All-Star game MVP honors. And Last but not least….
Juan Marichal’s career as an All-Star for the San Francisco Giants
Juan Marichal pitched in the era of dominant National League pitching. Some of his NL contemporaries were Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson, Don Drysdale, Steve Carlton, Dock Ellis, Jim Bunning, Gaylord Perry among others. His stats in the All-Star games were as follows:
| Year | G/S | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | W | L | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 2/0 | 4.0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2.25 |
| 1963 | 1/0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 1965 | 1/1 | 3.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 1966 | 1/0 | 3.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 1967 | 1/1 | 3.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 1968 | 1/1 | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 1971 | 1/1 | 1.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Total | 8/2 | 18.0 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0.50 |
In eight All-Star Games (1958-1962 had 2 All-Star Games per year), Marichal started two games and won two while losing none. He had a total of twelve strikeouts to two walks and have up only seven hits and two runs in eighteen total innings pitched. Opposing hitters had a combined .117 batting average against and a .145 on base percentage against Marichal. Just to put it in perspective, some of the players Marichal faced in these games were Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Yogi Berra, Elston Howard, Brooks Robinson, Harmon Killibrew, Tony Oliva, Al Kaline, George Scott, Frank Robinson, Rod Carew, Carl Yastremski, Rico Petrocelli, Frank Howard and Bobby Murcer. Any other suggestions for dominating Latino Pitching performances in the All-Star game?
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