{"id":12685,"date":"2021-02-05T16:50:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T22:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.baseballroundtable.com\/?p=12685"},"modified":"2024-01-25T07:38:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T13:38:46","slug":"baseball-roundtable-whos-your-daddy-series-lefty-grove-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballroundtable.com\/baseball-roundtable-whos-your-daddy-series-lefty-grove-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Roundtable “Who’s Your Daddy?” Series … Lefty Grove Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tex Vache … Perfect Against Lefty Grove\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
Boston Red Sox outfielder\u00a0 Ernest Lewis “Tex” Vache faced Hall of Fame southpaw Lefty Grove just four times in his MLB career – but went four-for-four (three singles and a double) – the most hits against Grove of any player to put up a 1.000 batting average against him.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
Vache (who served on a U.S. Navy minesweeper in World War I and left the Navy in 1919) did not\u00a0 make his professional (minor-league)\u00a0 debut until age 31 and made his first MLB roster in 1925 (at age 35). Vache played just one MLB season, hitting .313-3-48 in 110 games for the Red Sox.\u00a0 \u00a0After the season,Vache was traded to the Tigers, who then sent him on to Fort Worth of the Texas League. (<\/strong>Vache eventually played the 1926 season with the Pacific Coast League Mission Bells, hitting .302 in 88 games).\u00a0 He toiled in the minor leagues until 1929, but never appeared in the majors again (most often attributed to his age and fielding issues.)\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
From Ted Vache’s one-season MLB career, we segue into the Lefty Grove Edition of\u00a0 the Baseball Roundtable’s “Who’s Your Daddy?” series.<\/p>\n
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Who’s Your Daddy?\u00a0 What’s it all about?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
In this series, BBRT presents lineups of players who performed\u00a0unexpectedly<\/em>\u00a0well against baseball’s top pitchers. (An explanation of the inspiration behind the Who\u2019s Your Daddy? series can be found the end of this post.)\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>As always, I would stress that the pitchers included in the Who’s Your Daddy? series are among the “best in the business.”\u00a0 They are selected not because of the players who performed well against them, but rather because success among hitters when they were on the mound was the exception rather than the rule.\u00a0 We’ve looked at pitchers from a wide range of eras – from Bob Feller to Nolan Ryan to Max Scherzer.\u00a0 We going even farther back in this post – to the players who seemed to be able to deal with the offerings of Hall of Famer Robert Moses “Lefty” Grove.<\/p>\n
Before we get started on this edition, focusing on the Hall of Fame southpaw, here are links to the previous editions of this series:<\/p>\n
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- Nolan Ryan, click\u00a0here.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Sandy Koufax, click\u00a0here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Pedro Martinez, click\u00a0here.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Bob Gibson, click\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Randy Johnson, click\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Greg Maddux, click\u00a0here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Justin Verlander, click\u00a0here.<\/span>\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Bob Feller, click<\/strong>\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n
- Roger Clemens, click\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Max Scherzer, click\u00a0here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Tom Seaver, click\u00a0here.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Mariano Rivera, click\u00a0here.<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Warren Spahn, click here<\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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