Hall of Famer thrived in San Diego Stadium in leading francise to first winning season. When Perry pitched, the place seemed as big as a national park.
Gaylord Perry threw a wide assortment of pitches for the 1978 Padres, but it’s the pitch he threw just once that year in San Diego Stadium — the gopher ball — that may best explain how Perry, at age 40, became the oldest Cy Young winner of the 20th century and led the franchise to its first winning season.
When the net is cast back to 1961, the start of the expansion era, it’s learned that just three NL qualifiers allowed one home run or zero to visiting hitters in a season. This wasn’t warm beer to the brown-and-mustard-attired Pads. They’d never topped 73 wins and had cracked 100 defeats in four years.
A rookie shortstop named Ozzie Smith rewarded the “make them hit it” approach with his extraordinary range. In becoming the first of six pitchers to win a Cy Young Award in each league, Perry showed an appreciation for outs that anticipated some of MLB’s analytics-driven tactics decades later.
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