Baseball history was made last Tuesday August 7,2018 in
Arlington, Texas when former NY Met and NY Yankee Bartolo Colon defeated Felix
Hernandez and the Seattle Mariners and earned his 246th victory to
pass former Baltimore Oriole star Dennis Martinez to become the winningest
Latin American- born pitcher in baseball history. The Texas Ranger fans have
not had much to cheer about this season, however they were energized by
watching this piece of history. Colon’s teammates were equally energized as
they were also cheering and brought out the water bucket and doused Colon with it.
He was trying for the record since June. He finally achieved the record after
his sixth try.
The 45-year-old Colon has been like a fine wine meaning he
gets better with age. In 2005 he won the Cy Young award while with the Angels.
His 244th victory prior recently pushed him past Hall of Famer Juan
Marichal for the most wins by a Dominican pitcher. I remember when Colon first
came up with the Cleveland Indians back in 1997. He pitched in a few regular
season games, but he did not pitch in the World Series as Cleveland lost to
Florida. Colon pitched in his only World Series with the Mets back in 2015. He
has made the All-Star team on four occasions. The last time he made it was in
2016 with the Mets. Even though he hasn’t pitched well this year I thought a
contending team would have tried to acquire him since he brings plenty of
experience.
Colon wants to keep pitching much to the delight of the
fans. He has the strength to continue. He has not given anybody any indication
that he will retire in a couple of years. His career record thus far is 246-186
which is very good. It is a record that may enable him to be in consideration
for the Hall of Fame, however that remains to be seen. Colon has been a
tremendous competitor. His next goal is to beat the record of innings pitched
currently held by Marichal.
4 comments:
How far is he from Marichal inning record? Bartolo was great as a Met and can still pitch for losing teams that need a gate attraction. Teams like that are certainly around.
Sure
Like Tibow,right?
Mack, Tebow will have the better career LOL
But not with his arm. We saw what happened when he banked on that for his athletic career :)
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