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And now for something completely different -- a World Series featuring no 20-game winners. So when, you ask, was the last World Series in which no pitcher on either staff had ever won 20 in a season at some point in their career? How about never.

We went through every World Series. And every darned one of them featured at least one pitcher who had won 20 at least once -- until this one. In fact, the last three World Series have included four 20-game winners apiece:

2001 -- Randy Johnson, Curt Schilling, Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte.
2000 -- Roger Clemens, David Cone, Mike Hampton, Denny Neagle.
1999 -- Roger Clemens, Tom Glavine, David Cone, John Smoltz.

In fact, only two of the last 20 World Series have failed to have multiple 20-game winners on the premises:

1993 -- Dave Stewart.
1984 -- Jack Morris.

The Game 1 matchup of Jarrod Washburn and Jason Schmidt was just the second World Series opener since 1986 in which neither of the two starters was either a 20-game winner or a one-time Cy Young award-winner. The only other was the 1993 duel between future 20-game winner Curt Schilling and Toronto's Juan Guzman.

That 1993 World Series was also the only one since 1987 that didn't include at least one pitcher who either had already won a Cy Young or won one that season.

Barry Bonds sure knows how to make a World Series entrance, doesn't he? Only one other member of the 500-homer club ever homered in his first World Series at-bat -- Mel Ott of the New York Giants, off Washington's Lefty Stewart, in 1933. At the time, though, Ott wasn't even in the 200-homer club. (He'd hit 176.)

So what did the other three members of the 600-homer club do in their first World Series at-bats? According to the Sultan of Swat Stats, SABR's David Vincent, Babe Ruth (who was still a pitcher then) grounded out to first base. Willie Mays flied to right. And Hank Aaron grounded to second.

The only Hall of Famers to homer in their first World Series at-bat? Ott and Brooks Robinson (off Don Drysdale in 1966).

Last time the active leader in home runs homered in the World Series? 1995 (Eddie Murray off Tom Glavine).

At 38 years and 87 days, Bonds was the sixth-oldest player to hit his first World Series homer. The five guys who were older, courtesy of David Vincent:

Johnny Mize 39 years, 269 days (1952)
Willie Stargell 39 years, 218 days (1979)
Tony Gwynn 38 years, 161 days (1998)
Dave Parker 38 years, 127 days (1989)
Don Baylor 38 years, 118 days (1987)

With Troy Glaus coming up in the bottom of the second and also homering in his first World Series at-bat, this became just the second Series game in history in which two different players homered in their first at-bat. The other: Game 1, 1988, when Jose Canseco and current Angels hitting coach Mickey Hatcher both did it.

But of course, Glaus wasn't through. When he homered again in the sixth inning, it made him the sixth man to hit two homers in his first World Series game. The others: Ted Kluszewski (1959), Gene Tenace (1972), Willie Mays Aikens (1980), Andruw Jones (1996) and Greg Vaughn (1998).

The only other man besides Glaus to have two multihomer games in the same postseason? Aikens in 1980. But unlike Glaus (who homered twice in Game 1 of the Division Series), Aikens did it in the same series (the World Series).

Then there is Reggie Sanders, who homered last year with the Diamondbacks and homered Saturday as a Giant. He's the first player in history to homer in consecutive World Series with two different teams, believe it or not.

Thanks to Bonds, Sanders and Glaus, this was the first World Series game in history in which the first three hits were all home runs.

More Barry: The Angels made it through seven innings and three trips to the plate by Bonds before walking him (unintentionally, theoretically) -- Bonds' ninth straight postseason game with a walk. But if the Angels had studied the first two rounds, they clearly would have found that walking him in this postseason hasn't paid off for the Braves and Cardinals.

During the regular season, Bonds was intentionally walked 68 times, but scored only three runs all season after those walks (or 4 percent of the time). In the postseason, he was intentionally walked six times -- and scored twice (or 33 percent of the time).

His team, meanwhile, scored 27 runs this season following his 68 intentional walks. But in the postseason, they've picked up that rate considerably -- scoring five runs after his six intentional walks. And overall, the Giants have scored 10 runs (four by Bonds himself) following his 15 walks.

So does walking Barry pay? It did in Game 1 (since he was stranded on second). But for the most part this month, it hasn't.

How strange is this? Jarrod Washburn had no games all season in which he allowed three home runs. But he now has made four postseason starts -- and done it twice (Game 1 of the Yankees series and again in Game 1 of the World Series).

Adam Kennedy doubled off the wall in his first World Series at-bat -- giving him a double, single and three homers in his last five postseason at-bats at the time. He had five hits in the whole postseason (18 ABs) before that.

David Bell's father, Buddy, never played in a World Series. But his grandfather, Gus Bell, played in the 1961 World Series for the Reds. That makes the Bells the first grandfather-grandson combo in Series history.

The Fabulous Molina Brothers -- Bengie and Jose -- are the first brothers to play in the in same World Series since Clete and Ken Boyer in the 1964 Series. Coincidentally, they both played the same position, too (third base). Just not for the same team.