Saturday, September 3, 2011

Pedro Martinez


On this date in 2007, Pedro Martinez strikes out Aaron Harang in the second inning for his 3000th major league strikeout.

"Some people are a little afraid of Pedro and that helps him." - Lou Piniella

4 comments:

Al Penwasser said...

Don Zimmer is probably a little afraid of him.

Contrary Guy said...

Pedro reminded me of a bullfighter in that one as he dodged and also tossed Zimmer down/aside in one fluid, elegant motion.

Al Penwasser said...

The local papers were all indignant about that. Tell you what, if some geriatric Popeye looking madman starting charging me, I probably woulda cold-cocked him. Let alone just push him to the ground.

Contrary Guy said...

I was a bit surprised anybody had a problem with Pedro there. What did they want him to do? Had he jumped on him like Randy "Macho Man" Savage for the pin, then yeah I would've had a problem with it.