Storm Davis
| Storm Davis | |||
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| Pitcher | |||
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Born: December 26, 1961 Dallas, Texas |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 29, 1982, for the Baltimore Orioles | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| August 11, 1994, for the Detroit Tigers | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 113–96 | ||
| Earned run average | 4.02 | ||
| Strikeouts | 1,048 | ||
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George Earl "Storm" Davis (born December 26, 1961), is a retired professional baseball player who pitched in the major leagues from 1982 to 1994. He is a two-time World Series champion.
Davis was the winning pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles in Game Four of the 1983 World Series versus the Philadelphia Phillies. He was the losing pitcher for the Oakland Athletics in Games Two and Five of the 1988 World Series versus the Los Angeles Dodgers.
In 1989, he won a career-high 19 games for the A's during a season which the A's won 99 games, more than any other team in Major League Baseball. After Davis (and reliever Rick Honeycutt) pitched in the only AL Championship Series game that the A's lost that year, Davis was originally scheduled to be the A's starting pitcher for Game Four of the 1989 World Series. When the Loma Prieta earthquake caused Game 3 to be delayed by ten days, Tony La Russa decided to re-use the winners of Games 1 and 2, Dave Stewart and Mike Moore, as the starting pitchers of Games 3 and 4; La Russa also penciled in Davis as the starting pitcher for Game 6, if necessary. La Russa's strategy worked: both Stewart and Moore won their games, and Davis, publicly angry at La Russa for the change, became a free agent at the end of the season.
Years later, Dave Stewart described Davis as the "best fifth starter [Stewart] had ever [seen]....[Davis] pitched 165-170 innings (actually 169), won 19 games (19-7) and spent some time doing a pretty good job out of the bullpen, too. Storm was the perfect fifth starter." Stewart's high opinion of Davis' 1989 season is not shared by sabermetrician Bill James, who cites Davis' 19-7 winning record as a canonical example of how a pitcher's won-lost record can be misleading.
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