MLB Network will celebrate Greg Maddux’s 54th birthday Tuesday with a gift for his fans.
The all-baseball all-the-time channel will re-air four of the many masterpieces from the Hall of Fame pitcher’s career, including three from his 11 seasons with the Braves.
Maddux said via Twitter that the selected games are “some of my favorite career games,” and he invited fans to “follow along as I live tweet the games and share how I’m spending my birthday.”
Here’s MLB Network’s “Greg Maddux Day” lineup for Tuesday:
• 10 a.m.: Back with the Chicago Cubs, his team before and after his time with the Braves, Maddux wins his 300th career game Aug. 7, 2004, by beating the San Francisco Giants.
• 12:30 p.m.: Maddux starts the Braves toward winning the 1995 World Series by pitching a complete-game two-hitter on just 95 pitches against the vaunted Cleveland Indians lineup in Game 1.
• 3 p.m.: Maddux pitches eight shutout innings as the Braves beat the New York Yankees in Game 2 of the 1996 World Series, the second and last game the Braves would win in that series. The Braves haven't won a World Series game since this one.
• 5 p.m.: A re-airing of the documentary "Atlanta Rules: The Story of the '90s Braves."
• 6 p.m.: Maddux strikes out 14 in a May 2, 2001, game as the Braves beat the Milwaukee Brewers.
• 10 p.m.: The day's second showing of Maddux's gem in Game 1 of the 1995 World Series.
Maddux won 355 games in 23 big-league seasons and won four consecutive National League Cy Young Awards from 1992 through 1995, the first with the Cubs and the next three with the Braves. He retired at age 42 following the 2008 season after pitching late in his career for the Dodgers and Padres.
