Although they are two very different pitchers, the Giants’ Tim Lincecum and the Phillies’ Roy Halladay are two of baseball’s top three or four.
Saturday night in Philadelphia, Lincecum—the NL Cy Young winner each of the previous two seasons—will face Halladay, the front runner for this year’s NL Cy Young, who tossed a no-hitter in his last start.
Although postseason baseball was limited to the World Series only until 1969, and the World Series and LCS until 1995, there have been dozens of classic pitching matchups in baseball history.
Here are the top 10 of all time.