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# This Week’s Schedule (all times Eastern)
Day|Feature
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Sunday 10/30|¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
Monday 10/31|[RBaseball Weekly Episode 97 – World Series Check-In – Marlins & Royals end their skipper search, Cardinals do some things](https://old.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/yi8b27/rbaseball_weekly_podcast_episode_97_world_series/)
|[Halloween 2022 Mega Thread](https://old.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/yihua2/official_halloween_2022_thread/)
|~~[Game Thread: World Series Game 3 – Astros @ Phillies – 8:03 PM ET](https://old.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/yirtr3/game_thread_world_series_game_3_astros_1_phillies/)~~
Tuesday 11/1|[Game Thread: World Series Game 3 – Astros @ Phillies – 8:03 PM ET](https://old.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/yjocse/game_thread_world_series_game_3_astros_1_phillies/) – [Serious Next Day Thread](https://old.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/yk3mjt/serious_next_day_thread_world_series_game_3/?)
Wednesday 11/2|[Game Thread: World Series Game 4 – Astros @ Phillies – 8:03 PM ET](https://old.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/ykkyv1/game_thread_world_series_game_4_astros_1_phillies/)
Thursday 11/3|[Game Thread: World Series Game 5 – Astros @ Phillies – 8:03 PM ET](https://old.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/ylht11/game_thread_world_series_game_5_astros_2_phillies/)
Friday 11/4|¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
Saturday 11/5|Game Thread: World Series Game 6 (If Necessary) – Phillies @ Astros – 8:03 PM ET
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>Astros manager [Grady Hatton](https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/hattogr01.shtml) put [Don Wilson](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wilsodo01.shtml) in the pitching rotation in 1967. On June 18 he pitched a [no-hitter against the Atlanta Braves at the Houston Astrodome, the first no-hitter at the two-year-old ballpark](https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/june-18-1967-don-wilson-tosses-first-no-hitter-in-astrodome-history/), striking out 15 Braves in the process.
Wilson ended the game with a three-pitch strikeout of his boyhood idol, Hank Aaron.
>In 1969 Wilson played a role in a rare achievement. On April 30 at Cincinnati, Reds pitcher Jim Maloney pitched a [no-hitter against the Astros](https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/april-30-1969-reds-jim-maloney-fires-his-second-no-hitter/).
The next day, May 1, Wilson took the mound and [threw another no-hitter](https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/may-1-1969-don-wilsons-no-hitter-is-astros-revenge-one-day-later/).
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>It was the second time in major-league history that two teams exchanged no-hitters on successive days. (It had happened just the season before when [Gaylord Perry](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/perryga01.shtml) of the San Francisco Giants and [Ray Washburn](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/washbra01.shtml) of the St. Louis Cardinals did it on [September 17](https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/september-17-1968-gaylord-perry-no-hits-cardinals-outduels-bob-gibson/) [and 18](https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/september-18-1968-cardinals-ray-washburn-no-hits-the-giants/).)
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>>“There were a couple of times my legs were shaking so much I had to step off the mound,”
Wilson said after the game.
>>“I never wanted anything so bad in all my life as to pitch that no-hitter.”
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>He was alluding to bad blood between the teams after the Reds routed Wilson and the Astros, 14-0, nine days earlier.
– *Don Wilson*, by Matthew Clifford, **[SABR BioProj](https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/don-wilson/)**
Love the due diligence, bot! Better late than never!
If the Astros win the World Series, I’m curious whether neutrals think he will be remembered as more of a Tigers player or Astros player.
In this hypothetical, he would have 6x ASGs, AL MVP, AL ROY, a Cy Young, and two no-hitters in 13 seasons with Detroit and (as of right now) 3x ASGs, 2x World Series, a Cy Young, and a no-hitter in six seasons with Houston.
If you had the choice to invest a fuckton of money to popularize either Minor League Baseball or college baseball, which would you choose?
Anyone reading this who’s having a bad day, You made as much money playing baseball this year as Michael Conforto did.
Depression is eating away at me. Sports are supposed to be a getaway and this sub is making it so much worse