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Missing out on a true gem

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Tuesday, October 19, 2004

HOUSTON -- It will go right up there with the greatest October pitching performances no one ever saw. Next to Walter Johnson in 1925. And Christy Mathewson in 1905. And all those other guys who forgot to wait for the invention of the satellite dish. As 99.8 percent of America watched some game in Boston on an unforgettable baseball Monday in October, a postseason classic was unfolding in Texas -- before the eyes of, well, just about no one. Inning after inning, an Astros pitcher not named C ...

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