Effectively wild.
Sure, it’s a cliché, but that’s maybe the nicest thing you could say about rookie Clay Kirby on this date — July 15 — in 1969 when he walked a franchise-record 10 batters in a wind-swept 10-3 win over the San Francisco Giants at Candlestick Park.
“It was hard to keep my balance,” Kirby told the San Diego Union. “I’d start my windup and here would come another gust of wind and it’d almost blow me over.”
Padres manager Preston Gomez stuck with Kirby for 7 2/3 innings because Giants starter Juan Marichal coughed up six of his seven runs (one earned) in the fifth inning, burying his team in a 7-0 hole.