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Bedient won 20 games as a Red Sox rookie in 1912 and another in the WS when he outpitched Christy Mathewson 2-1 in the fifth game. He also pitched the first seven innings of the final game, won by the Red Sox in the tenth. (JK)

FROM THE BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY » July 25, 1908: Future Red Sox pitcher Hugh Bedient, pitching for a semi-pro Falconer, NY team, strikes out 42 batters in what is heralded as a world's record. He does it 23 innings against Corry, PA, finally winning, 3–1. He is matched all the way by Charles Bickford. When the wire services pick up the story, Bedient will receive 19 pro offers. » June 9, 1912: In St. Louis, Red Sox rookie Hugh Bedient coasts to a 9–2 win over the Browns. Tris Speaker, the AL's leading hitter, is 4-for-5 off Roy Mitchell hitting for the cycle to pace the Boston attack. » October 12, 1912: In Boston for game 5, the Red Sox scratch only two runs off Christy Mathewson on five hits, but 18-game winner Hugh Bedient holds the Giants to three hits. The 2–1 win gives Boston a 3–1 Series edge. » October 16, 1912: In the Series finale, Christy Mathewson squares off against Hugh Bedient in quest of his first win of the Series. He takes a 1–0 lead into the 7th, but with one out, Boston manager Jake Stahl hits a pop-up to short LF. The ball drops among Art Fletcher, Josh Devore, and Fred Snodgrass. Heinie Wagner walks, and with two outs, pinch hitter Olaf Henriksen doubles home the tying run. Smoky Joe Wood relieves Bedient, and the two aces match zeroes until Red Murray doubles and Fred Merkle singles in the 10th to give New York a 2–1 lead. In the last of the 10th, pinch hitter Clyde Engle lifts a can of corn to CF Snodgrass, who drops the ball. Snodgrass then makes a great catch of a long drive by Harry Hooper. Steve Yerkes walks, bringing up Tris Speaker, who pops a high foul along the 1B line. C Chief Meyers chases it, but it drops a few feet from 1B Merkle, who could have taken it easily. Reprieved, Speaker then singles in the tying run and sends Yerkes to 3B. After Duffy Lewis is walked intentionally, 3B Larry Gardner hits a long sac fly to a retreating Devore that scores Yerkes with the winning run. This World Series was the most butterfingered in history, with thirty-one errors recorded, seventeen for The Giants. The Red Sox earn $4,024.68 each; the Giants' share is $2,566.47 each. » October 7, 1914: The Senators and the Red Sox wind up the season in a meaningless game in Boston. Washington manager Clark Griffith, 45, makes his final mound appearance, while Boston's star outfielder Tris Speaker does the only pitching of his career, giving up a run in an inning. Babe Ruth, in relief of starter Hugh Bedient, pitches three innings for Boston. » May 30, 1925: Former Red Sox 20-game winner Hugh Bedient ends his pro career in an unusual way (as noted by Greg Peterson). Pitching for Atlanta against the home-town Memphis Chicks, the 2–0 Bedient becomes upset by the ump's decision. The Memphis fans shower the field with bottles, cushions and programs and the upset umpire then forfeits the game to Atlanta. Bedient's pro career ends shortly after the game.