2⁄3 scoreless innings from July 2 through July 19, 2006, when he gave up a fifth-inning home run to Ben Broussard of the Cleveland Indians, leaving his scoreless streak 51⁄3 innings short of the club record, set by Jim McGlothlin in 1967. [8] He was later named American League Pitcher of the Month for July 2006.
2007–2009
On June 13, 2007, Lackey became the first pitcher to win 10 games for the 2007 season. [9] On July 1, Lackey was named as one of three Angels to represent the club and the American League at the 2007 All-Star Game. Lackey finished the 2007 season with an American League leading 3.01 ERA. He finished in third place for that season's Cy Young Award voting.
On July 10, 2008, Lackey allowed six runs on 15 hits in 52⁄3 innings. The 15 hits tied an all-time Angels' franchise record for hits allowed by a starter in a single game. [10]
On July 18, 2008, Lackey recorded his 1000th career strikeout, against Kevin Youkilis of the Boston Red Sox. Lackey was the sixth Angels pitcher to accomplish that feat. [11] On July 29, 2008, Lackey pitched against the Red Sox at Fenway Park, carrying a no-hitter into the ninth inning. He came within two outs of a no-hitter before Dustin Pedroia singled to left to spoil it. The next batter, Youkilis, hit a two-run homer to break up the shutout. Lackey still finished the game and the Angels won 6–2.
In Game 1 of the 2008 ALDS, he gave up a two-run home run to Jason Bay of the Red Sox, and was charged with the Angels' first loss in the series.
In his first start of 2009, on May 16, Lackey was ejected after his first two pitches of the season in a game against the Texas Rangers. Lackey threw his first pitch behind Ian Kinsler's head, and hit Kinsler in the side with his second pitch. Home plate umpire Bob Davidson immediately ejected Lackey. Since Kinsler scored, Lackey was charged with an earned run, giving him an ERA of infinity. [12] Kinsler had hit two home runs against the Angels the night before. [13]
On August 30, 2009, Lackey earned his 100th career win against the Oakland Athletics, giving up one run (on an error by shortstop Erick Aybar) through eight innings.
Lackey is one of only six major league pitchers who won at least 11 games in each year from 2004 to 2009, the others being CC Sabathia, Derek Lowe, Johan Santana, Javier Vázquez, and Jason Marquis.
At the end of the 2009 season Lackey became a free agent, widely regarded as the best free agent starting pitcher on the 2010 market. Baseball Prospectus declared, "Lackey stands alone as the best of the best, a relatively young righty who carries significantly less risk than the other high-upside hurlers", additionally noting he faced a tough division and tougher league and his statistics would likely be even better if he were a National League pitcher. [14] As one of the top free agent starters on the market, he was predicted to command a deal worth around $70 to $80 million, similar to the deal A. J. Burnett received from the Yankees. Lackey drew interest from many teams, including the Seattle Mariners, the Milwaukee Brewers, [15] the New York Yankees, [16] the New York Mets, the Boston Red Sox, and the Pittsburgh Pirates. [17] He formally declined the Angels' offer of salary arbitration on December 8. [18]
Boston Red Sox (2010–2014)
On December 16, 2009, Lackey officially signed a five-year contract worth $82.5 million with the Boston Red Sox. [19] His contract had a clause where if he missed a full season due to injury, the Red Sox would have a team option at the end of the contract worth the league minimum. [20] On April 7, 2010, Lackey made his debut for Boston at Fenway Park against the Yankees, pitching six innings of three-hit, shutout ball.
2010
Lackey posted a 10–5 record and a 4.26 ERA during the first half of the 2010 season and finished his first season with the Red Sox with a 14–11 record, 4.40 ERA over 215 innings pitched. [21]
2011
Lackey went 2–5 with an 8.01 ERA in his first seven starts, and in May, he was placed on the disabled list with an elbow strain in his throwing arm. [22] Lackey returned shortly, recording an ERA over 5.00 in every month but one. [23] In 28 starts, Lackey finished the season 12–12 with a 6.41 ERA and 1.62 WHIP, both career worsts. The 114 earned runs he allowed were the most in the American League, [24] and his ERA was the highest in Red Sox history for a starter with at least 150 innings pitched. In the end of the 2011 season, Lackey and two more starting pitchers (Josh Beckett and Jon Lester, allegedly) were in the center of a controversy that told that the three (and sometimes more) drank beers and ate fried chicken in the clubhouse during games in which they were not pitching. [25] [26] [27]
2012
During a press conference, Ben Cherington, the new GM of the Boston Red Sox, revealed that John Lackey had Tommy John surgery during the 2011 offseason. As a result, Lackey did not pitch for the entire 2012 season. [28] Lackey was later seen drinking beer in the clubhouse during his rehabilitation, causing further controversy. [29] [30]
2013
On April 6, Lackey injured his arm in his first start since September 2011. The Red Sox announced it was a right biceps strain. [31] On April 28, Lackey got his first win since the 2011 season, going six innings, giving up one run and five hits in a 6–1 win over the Houston Astros. [32]
On October 30, Lackey was the winning pitcher in Game 6 of the 2013 World Series, which clinched the Boston Red Sox' eighth World Series title. In doing so, Lackey became the first starting pitcher in Major League history to win two World Series "clinching" games with two different teams. Lackey garnered much media attention by his refusal to leave the game when Manager John Farrell came to the mound with two outs in the seventh inning, telling Farrell "this is my guy" (referring to the next batter, Matt Holliday). Farrell allowed Lackey to stay in the game, but he eventually walked Holliday to load the bases. Lackey exited to a standing ovation from Fenway Park. [33]
Many credited Lackey's turnaround as a major reason for the Red Sox' success in 2013, especially at mid-season when Clay Buchholz went on the disabled list and Jon Lester was going through a rough stretch. Lackey finished 2013 with a 10–13 record and a 3.52 ERA. He was plagued by a lack of run support throughout the season, but threw two complete games, the first time in a season that he had multiple complete games since 2008.
After the season, Lackey was awarded with the Tony Conigliaro Award, an award given out to the player who has overcome the most adversity. [34]
2014
Lackey began the 2014 season as the Red Sox' number-two starter behind Lester. He made six starts in April, with four being quality starts, and two giving up six runs in less than six innings. Dating back to the previous May 23, he had thrown six straight quality starts, going 3–1 with a 1.60 ERA and 34 strikeouts.
On July 5, Orioles designated hitter Nelson Cruz went 3-for-3 with a double off of Lackey. Cruz had served a 50-game suspension for his involvement in the Biogenesis baseball scandal the previous season, which Cruz claimed he had sought help from Biogenesis of America to fight a gastrointestinal infection. After Cruz' big game, Lackey stated, "I'm not going to comment on him. I've got nothing to say about him. There are some things I would like to say but I'm not going to. You guys forget pretty conveniently about stuff." [35] Orioles manager Buck Showalter countered by saying, "Considering the timing of things, it's one of those things that you keep quiet about it and it reflects poorly upon the person who said it." [36]
St. Louis Cardinals (2014–2015)
On July 31, 2014, the Red Sox traded Lackey with minor league pitcher Corey Littrell to the St. Louis Cardinals for outfielder Allen Craig and pitcher Joe Kelly. [37] In his Cardinals debut, Lackey pitched seven innings but was behind 2–0 when he exited the game. The Cardinals rallied for three runs the next inning, and ended up winning the game 3–2 while crediting him the win, [38] the 150th of his career. Catcher A. J. Pierzynski, acquired from the Red Sox the same month, caught Lackey for the 19th time in 22 starts in 2014. [39] Wearing uniform number 41 during his tenure with Anaheim and Boston, Lackey acquired the number from new teammate Pat Neshek in exchange for an autographed Babe Ruth baseball. [40]
In 10 regular season starts for the Cardinals, Lackey allowed two or fewer runs in seven of them. [41] He totaled a 3–3 W–L with a 4.30 ERA in 60+2⁄3 IP with St. Louis, and his totals for the year including those with Boston were 14-10 W–L with a 3.82 ERA and 164 strikeouts in 198 innings. He made the postseason for the seventh time in his career, starting once each against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Division Series (NLDS) and the San Francisco Giants in the National League Championship Series (NLCS). The Giants defeated the Cardinals in five games, ending their season. Instead of retiring and foregoing being paid the league minimum, Lackey had stated in the previous August that he would pitch in 2015 if the Cardinals picked up the option that actuated because he missed the 2012 season due to Tommy John surgery. On October 30, the Cardinals announced they had picked up the Tommy John option. [42] With a guaranteed base salary of $507,000, the club added performance bonuses before the start of the season. [43]
In 7+2⁄3 IP against the Chicago Cubs on May 7, 2015, Lackey struck out 10. He also drove in his third career run with a double, his third career extra base hit in a 5–1 win. [44] On July 12, despite the Cardinals losing to the Pittsburgh Pirates 6–5 in 14 innings, he achieved his sixth consecutive quality start, and 12th in 15 appearances. [45] He lost to the Cincinnati Reds on July 29, but gave up just one run with eight strikeouts while allowing one walk and two hits. It was the fewest hits he allowed through that point in the season. He also allowed three runs or fewer in all but of one of his prior 17 starts. [46]
By earning his 10th win of 2015 in a 6–2 defeat of the Miami Marlins on August 15, Lackey recorded his 12th consecutive season of double-digit victory totals. He struck out six in 8+1⁄3 innings and retired nine batters in a row at one point. One of the hits Lackey allowed was a single to Ichiro Suzuki, a hit with which Ichiro passed Ty Cobb for the total attained in top-level professional baseball organizations, including Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball. [47] With seven scoreless innings of the Milwaukee Brewers on September 17, Lackey reached 200 IP for the sixth time in his career and first time since 2010. He had a 2.23 ERA over his last 17 starts. [48] By reaching 200 IP, he triggered a $400,000 bonus, bringing his earnings for the season over $2 million. [43] Further, Lackey turned in a season that exceeded his career norms, including a career-best 2.77 ERA, seventh-best in the league, and recorded 218 IP, his highest total since 2010. His fastball average speed for the season was 91.6 miles per hour (147.4 km/h), the highest since 2009. [49]
The Cardinals won 100 games and the National League Central division, and made Lackey the Game 1 starter of the NLDS against the Cubs. He opposed Jon Lester — both men had faced the Cardinals in the World Series two years earlier as teammates with the Red Sox. Lackey held the Cubs hitless through the first five innings on the way to pitching 7+1⁄3 shutout innings in a 4–0 win. [50] The Cardinals started him on three days' for Game 4, the elimination game. He allowed a three-run home run to Javier Báez, Lackey's first allowed in the playoffs since 2008, a span of 75+1⁄3 innings. [51] The Cubs won this game and the series, ending the Cardinals' season, [52] with Lackey's free agency following. [53]
Chicago Cubs (2016–2017)
On December 8, 2015, Lackey signed a two-year, $32 million contract with the Chicago Cubs. [54] [55]
On April 18, 2016, in a game against the Cardinals, his former club, Lackey struck out 11 hitters in seven innings, earning his third win of the season. [56] It was also his first regular season win against St. Louis, making him only the 16th player to notch a win against all 30 major league teams. [57] He joined Al Leiter, Randy Johnson, Kevin Brown, Barry Zito, Terry Mulholland, Curt Schilling, Woody Williams, Jamie Moyer, Javier Vázquez, Vicente Padilla, Derek Lowe, Dan Haren, A. J. Burnett, Kyle Lohse, and Tim Hudson as the only players to achieve this milestone. [58] He reached double-digit win totals for the 13th consecutive season on September 21, 2016, in a 9−2 win over the Cincinnati Reds. [59] In 29 starts of 2016, Lackey finished 11–8 with a 3.35 ERA. With the Cubs finishing the season 103–58, the team clinched the NL Central Division. [60] Lackey won the World Series for the third time of his career, and with a third different team after the Cubs beat the Cleveland Indians in the 2016 World Series, ending a 108-year long drought for a championship. [61]
On August 16, 2017, against the Cincinnati Reds, Lackey recorded his first career stolen base, but was then picked off shortly thereafter. [62] [63]
On September 15, 2017, Lackey was ejected and fined for arguing a strike call by umpire Jordan Baker. Baker also ejected catcher Willson Contreras who was arguing the same strike call. [64] He became a free agent after the Cubs lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS.
Retirement
During the 2018 season, Lackey was offered a minor league contract by the Arizona Diamondbacks, and promptly turned it down. [65] At a Chicago Cubs home game on September 27, 2018, Lackey was in attendance, and toasted to the camera when it panned to him. [66] After the season concluded, Lackey officially retired.
Personal life
On August 30, 2011, Lackey filed for divorce from Krista, his wife of almost three years, who had been battling cancer since March and underwent chemotherapy through June. [67] [68] [69] [70] The divorce was finalized by February 2012. [71] [72] [73]
Lackey resides in the Austin area in the off-season. He and his wife, Kristina Carter, had their first child, a daughter, in November 2015. He is also a stepfather to Kristina's children from her first marriage. [1]
Popular culture
In 2009, the satirical publication The Onion published an article about Lackey, titled "Superstitious John Lackey Has to Build, Destroy a Luxury Hotel Before Every Start." [74] The article was intended to satirize superstitious professional athletes.
He was featured in a 2011 Kevin Fowler music video alongside fellow Red Sox starting pitchers Josh Beckett, Jon Lester, Tim Wakefield, and Clay Buchholz. [75]
In 2021, Lackey made a cameo in the football film Under the Stadium Lights as a guest speaker at a pep rally.
See also
- List of Major League Baseball annual shutout leaders
- List of Major League Baseball career hit batsmen leaders
- List of Major League Baseball career putouts as a pitcher leaders
- List of Major League Baseball career strikeout leaders
- List of people from Abilene, Texas
- List of University of Texas at Arlington people
- List of World Series starting pitchers
- Los Angeles Angels award winners and league leaders
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Buchholz now has the job that Lackey, his teammate for nearly five years in Boston, rejected during the winter. He was unwilling to sign a cheap, minor-league deal with Arizona, particularly with no guarantee of cracking the rotation.
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External links
- Career statistics from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors), or Retrosheet
- Official Blog on Yardbarker.com
| John Lackey | |
|---|---|
 Lackey with the Chicago Cubs in 2016 | |
| Pitcher | |
| Born:October 23, 1978 Abilene, Texas, U.S. | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
| MLB debut | |
| June 24, 2002, for the Anaheim Angels | |
| Last MLB appearance | |
| October 1, 2017, for the Chicago Cubs |