During his 17 seasons with the Red Sox, Mr. Wakefield helped the team win its first World Series since 1918.
Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield throws a knuckleball against the Cleveland Indians at Fenway Park in Boston on May 12, 2004. Tim Wakefield, who flustered big league hitters for 19 seasons with his 68-mph dancing knuckleball, an asymmetric warfare pitch in the era of 95-mph fastballs that helped the Boston Red Sox end its 86-year championship drought in 2004, died Sunday. He was 57.
as a mosquito. Outfielder Bobby Murcer once compared hitting it with “trying to eat Jell-O with chopsticks.” The knuckleball comes with one significant drawback: Sometimes the pitch lands right over the middle of the plate, and the batter hits the ball to another Zip code.That happened to Mr. Wakefield in the 2003 American League Championship Series, when Aaron Boone, in one of the game’s most memorable postseason moments,off him in extra innings of Game 7 to send the New York Yankees — Boston’s longtime nemesis — to the World Series.
Mr. Wakefield pitched 17 of his 19 big league seasons for Boston. His 186 career wins are the third-most in Red Sox history, behind Roger Clemens and Cy Young. He holdsfor innings pitched and games started. Befitting the knuckleball’s path, he also holds the team records for walks and wild pitches.Mr. Wakefield wasn’t even a pitcher when the Pittsburgh Pirates drafted him in the eighth round of the 1988 draft.
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