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June 20, 2009
Brothers Pitch Against Each Other in Tonight's Dodgers/Angels Game: Brothers Jeff and Jared Weaver, who grew up in Simi Valley not far from Anaheim, will be pitching against each other there tonight when Jeff's Los Angeles Dodgers face Jered's Los Angeles Angels. It's the 21st time siblings have started against each other in the bigs, and the first since Andy and Alan Benes faced off in 2002. MLB.Com runs down the last 15 such games.
If you don't count all the Niekro family jihads, then it really becomes a pretty rare thing.
Didn't Dock Ellis once think he was pitching against multiple members of his own family? He said it looked like there were at least three of them out on the mound at one point. And his Grandmama was out in the bullpen, getting loose.