The Big Schill

The only thing even close to a highlight for the Red Sox in August was Curt Schilling's 3,000th career strikeout, which came against the Oakland A's on Wednesday. Congrats, G38.

I hadn't realized that only 14 ML pitchers have done this -- the Boston Globe published the list here. It's also interesting to note that Cesar Geronimo appears on the list twice -- as Bob Gibson's and Nolan Ryan's 3,000th victim respectively (six years apart).

The 3,000-K club is actually one of the more exclusive ones -- its 14 members are less than other "clubs" of greater notoriety. There are 22 300-game winners (although that list includes several from the 19th Century) and 20 500-HR hitters and 25 members of the 3000-hit club.

The full story is here.

While looking for the above links, I stumbled across the following blog -- Baseball Fever. Not responsible for external content.