2017 Cleveland Indians

One of our sports stations had an ESPN guy on this morning talking about MVP candidates, and he came up with the most obscure first for Ramirez: first guy ever with 40 games each at second and third with an OPS over .900. That's definitely a lot of value, although the combination is a little specious.

http://68.media.tumblr.com/740d23742441301fa9e05f67ada7034b/tumblr_n8kfkrIu5J1scl662o1_500.jpg

The day of "the Decision," a co-worker wore this shirt to work. As I walked past him, I said "Nice racist shirt," and then we had a long, loud discussion outside the office and he probably still hasn't forgiven me. Never saw him wear it again, though.

The last time Indians lost:

A stamp cost 49 cents.
Milk cost https://twitter.com/MLBastian/status/907982955137695750.25.
Donald Trump was President.
Kids who are 22 days old weren't even born.

— Jordan Bastian (@MLBastian) September 13, 2017

The Indians started their 21-game winning streak playing .552 baseball. The probability of such a team winning 21 straight is 1 in 263,000.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) September 13, 2017

#ycpb

LOL at Santana getting waved around and being thrown out 12 feet from home.

They've trailed after four innings.

i'm told that during the streak they have 39 homers and their opponents have scored 35 runs

james says the indians' pythagorean expected record during the streak is . . . 20-1

Pretenders

what is the RS/RA?

__/35, obviously

139/35 if my eyeball math is right

Watch Miller blow the streak the game he returns.

I have a bad feeling about tonight.

Tom Hamilton is the best radio guy ever!! "A SWING AND A DRIVE!!!!!"

i somehow missed this, so posting this because maybe some of you did too. i assumed the record winning streak was 26 (1916 giants) because i kept seeing that referred to in various articles and headlines, but that's not really the record. that 26 game winning streak was actually a 12-game winning streak, a tie, and then a 14-game winning streak. i guess MLB considers that to be a winning streak.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/indians-win-streak-facts/

so the indians are actually tied with the record of 21 right now (1935 cubs), and have a chance to break it tonight.

^The Indians play by play guy, Tom Hamilton, has brought that up every game for the past week. He's in utter disbelief and one step away from suing MLB.

i would join in on a class action suit. my understanding and appreciation of baseball has suffered because of MLB's damagingly erroneous interpretation of "winning streak"

Technically, Joe DiMaggio went 1-5 in his 37th game and was only awarded an infield hit because a tie goes to the runner.

THAT IS NOT THE SAME AND YOU KNOW IT CLEMENZA

Just sitting on a rooftop, fooling and pretending.

A Posnanski piece on the Giants' sort-of streak:

http://joeposnanski.com/the-1916-giants-winning-streak/

Anyway, after Schupp shut out the Pirates, New York and Pittsburgh played a second game. It was 1-1 after 8 1/2 innings — and the umpires called the game because of darkness and rain. McGraw just about lost his mind. His team did not get to bat in the ninth inning. He ranted and raved and got nowhere. The statistics were counted — and if you look on Baseball Reference, the game is listed as a tie. But it wasn’t a tie; the game was made up in a doubleheader the next day — the third consecutive doubleheader between the Pirates and Giants. The Giants won both game easily, and the winning streak was up to 14 games.

hmmmm...a new twist. this shit gets more strange the more i dig into it. maybe i should stop digging into shit. but ok, i didn't realize that the tie game was made-up in full the next day. why didn't they just resume it the next day at the bottom of the 9th?

But it wasn’t a tie; the game was made up in a doubleheader the next day

Tom Hamilton, strangely, doesn't mention this in his nightly diaTRIBE.

i'm considering suing tom hamilton as well. someone is going to lose here

Reprieve!

Oops...had the wrong game up!

(I got all excited because Baltimore closed to within 9 runs of the Yankees...)

Reprieve, the sequel!

wow. thought this one was over!

that is very cool, down to their last strike.

wish the nation was watching this instead of the bad football game.

feels like a playoff game

even here in Toronto they had some dumb nfl game on the tv.

holy crap, jose ramirez stretching that to a double was something else

jeez

wow

just amazing.

Pretty cool.

average

The second-longest active winning streak is three (PHI).

i'm watching the bottom of the 9th now

wow gordon was so close to getting lindor's double

yeah ramirez's double was ballsy as hell

against cain of all guys

ahhh this was nuts

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-qaihcXkAABzEp.jpg

don't ruin this with that thing

feels like a playoff game

but it's not.

i love having this MLB Extra Innings package for times like this.

3 - 3

If you'd asked me, I would have said "That's been done before" (and probably would have proceeded to name one of the '70s Mets teams).

http://www.mlb.com/news/indians-1st-club-with-4-starters-with-200-ks/c-295641546

https://www.mlb.com/news/indians-1st-club-with-4-starters-with-200-ks/c-295641546