He lifted the Dodgers to the pennant in October, working into the ninth inning on a frigid afternoon – Blue Monday, they called it – in Montreal ... to see the famous screwball up close.

The screwball is one of baseball’s black swans ... he delighted sportswriters and fans with his carefree joy. In Montreal, after nearly pitching a complete game in a 6-1 win over the Expos ...

Not the ones that Fernando Valenzuela would bend to his will like his signature screwball ... When Valenzuela faced Dawson’s Montreal Expos that October in a winner-take-all Game 5 in the ...

And then as a kid there was a God I looked up to — Fernando Valenzuela, God of the screwball ... but games in New York and Montreal. And he was only 19 years old! I remember when I was 19 ...

You can play this game only once in your life,” the Dodger great, who died this week, told Rick Hummel after a 1997 trade to ...

During that heady 1981 season, Valenzuela used an assortment of pitches that included a screwball to become the ... holding the Montreal Expos to one run in 8 ⅔ innings and helping the Dodgers ...

But the pudgy screwball specialist with the funky delivery ... and we had to go the distance to beat Houston and Montreal … I can understand why Fernando was out of gas, because I was, too.” ...

A September callup the previous year as a teenager, Valenzuela and his screwball stormed into the ... it took extra innings to defeat the Expos in Montreal. Valenzuela’s ERA after those eight ...

Valenzuela also added the scarcely-used screwball to his repertoire early ... After allowing three runs in six innings in a Game 2 loss to the Montreal Expos, Valenzuela regained his dominance ...