Tom Browning

Last night in Cincinnati, baseball history was made the 14th perfect game ever thrown.

Tom Browning of the Reds retired all 27 Dodgers he faced.

He struck out seven, including Kirk Gibson, who got tossed for arguing the call.

Here's the only run of the game in the sixth.

Jim Deshaies pitching against Rick Russell.

The Astros, seven games back of the Dodgers.

The Dodgers, in case you missed the morning paper, not only blank, not only no-hitted, but it was a perfect game turned in by Tom Browning of the Cincinnati Reds.

So our heartiest congratulations to Tom Browning for a perfecto.

And you start to have friends and family and different people around you who suffer from illness or different things or pass away.

And we know Tom Browning already gone and Todd Benzinger has joined him.

I mentioned being sad by the memories of the World Series in 1990.

I'm not sad by the memories.

Um, that's sad.

And obviously the ones that are left are getting older.

And, and then to think about the fact that Tom Browning, who is a beloved figure and, and for in his own right, Todd Benzinger, who stuck around after his career, he lived in the Cincinnati area, coached high school sports when his kids were there and watched his son play at Wright state university basketball.

Um, it's tough to see these guys go, um, It's an instant reminder every time one of these happens or something like it, that as we get older, more people around us who gave us joy, whether it be family or friends or somebody we watched on TV or in a stadium, them moving on from this life is really tough to take.

But like watching those finals, I've rewatched all of them, even the one they lost.

And I, I still, it's like when I rewatched the 90 world series, watching Jose Rio and Tom Browning, try to navigate that lineup.

I still get that weird feeling in my stomach.

I'm looking forward to tonight watching a basketball game, and I want them to win.

So by the time they got to the marathon's game four and five, their bullpen was relatively ready for the job.

If you wanna go back to the Nasty Boys of 1990 or the, the bullpens that Tony La Russa had with the, uh, the A's in the 1980s and '90s or the Bridge to Mariano, those teams also had pitchers who went-- could give them innings, whether it was Dave Stewart, Bob Welch, Mike Moore with the A's, Jose Rio, Tom Browning Uh, with, with the Reds.

And obviously the Yankees had pitchers like, you know, Pettitte, and El Duque, and David Cone, and David Wells, and Roger Clemens who could...

And, uh, the, and later Mike Mussina, who could go deep in the game.

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Tom... [laughs] You like that, Jeff?

Yep.

Thomas Gilbert and Malcolm Reed are coming up on episode 365.

Jim Creighton, you could argue, had a bigger effect on the development of baseball than Ruth, and I would argue that, and yet 99% of fans, the name means nothing to.

So that's a mystery.

Well, Tom, how actually did you know the name? How did you...

Did you come across it and then say, "This is interesting"? Like, how did you discover him? Because it's, it's true.

And Terry behind now, ball three.

George Foster finds himself in a platoon situation now with his club and he normally starts only when a left hander is pitching and that means he would be in the lineup tomorrow night against Tom Browning.

But it is indeed quite a come down for Foster.

All those great years he had here in Cincinnati and really has not panned out in New York.

We see number 14 back in the lineup tomorrow night.

We'll be facing Ron Darling.

But there is some element of doubt as to whether or not Darling will pitch in the series wind up here against Tom Browning and we'll tell you why.

It is still somewhat up in the air as to the time that a hearing may or may not take place in Houston on Thursday involving Ron Darling and Tim Tuple who have been accused of assaulting a police officer in Houston.

I think the choice is pretty obvious.

I think a situation happened in a World Series game between the Reds and A's in the 1990 series where I think Tom Browning's wife went into labor during the game.

And so Tom Browning had to leave Riverfront Stadium.

And then they were in a situation, the Reds, where they might have to have him pitch.

So they had to have Tim McCarver on the air on CBSA.