trivial occurrences 2018

i have much to learn during my remaining 23 hours

Jesse Winker has 23 career home runs. He has at least one in all nine spots of the batting order.

— David Laurila (@DavidLaurilaQA) May 6, 2019

Pablo Sandoval on Monday became the first major league player since 1905 to hit a home run, steal a base and post a scoreless outing in the same game.

Sandoval achieved the feat in the San Francisco Giants' 12-4 loss to the Cincinnati Reds on Monday.

The only other time the feat was achieved, it was also accomplished by a Giants player in a game against the Reds. Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson threw nine shutout innings, hit a homer and stole a base in a victory on May 23, 1905, according to the Elias Sports Bureau's data.

I'm not sure which is more mind-blowing: Sandoval somehow pulling this off, or the fact that the same teams were involved the only other time it happened.

it's the stealing a base i'm finding hard to believe

The first five guys in the Rays batting order today have four-letter last names.

Whit and Mondesi are both on pace for 20 homers, 20 doubles, 20 triples and 20 steals. There are four members of the 20-20-20-20 club. Ever.

— David Lesky (@DBLesky) May 8, 2019

This sounds like a club Ricky Henderson would be in

I think either Yount or Brett did that in the late '70s.

Nope. Brett came real close in '79: 42/20/23/17--three SB short. Yount was 49/10/23/20 in 1980--he covered three of them but was 10 triples short, which isn't exactly close.

.@JoeyGallo24 is the first player in @MLB history to hit his 100th HR before his 100th single. 👀

h/t: @EliasSports pic.twitter.com/FnwZ44vJBC

— MLB Stats (@MLBStats) May 8, 2019

Holy shit, that’s kind of amazing

not even close

This is my new favorite stat.

Fewest career singles at time of 100th HR
1) Joey Gallo: 93
2) Russell Branyan: 172
3) Ken Phelps: 174
4) Ryan Howard: 176
5) Chris Carter: 179
6) Dave Kingman: 180

Great breakdown from @SlangsOnSports https://t.co/TzebRczUmf

— Matt Meyers (@mtmeyers) May 8, 2019

the blaze it club - four 20s

Mets have now employed 3 of the 4 MLB players in history named Wilmer (only lacking Difo)

name the one who wound up in Congress

Wilmer Cook of the Maltese Falcons.

Wilmer (Vinegar Bend) Mizell was no gunsel

Tuesday: In his MLB debut as a hitter, TOR pitcher Trent Thornton gets two hits at SF.

Wednesday: In his MLB debut, SF pitcher Shaun Anderson gets two hits vs. TOR.

Previously, no pitcher had gotten multiple hits in his MLB hitting debut since Steven Matz in 2015.

— Andrew Simon (@AndrewSimonMLB) May 15, 2019

The Royals have played 48 games. Their pitchers have recorded five saves.

— Brendan Gawlowski (@GawlowskiB) May 22, 2019

One for the ages:

https://i.imgur.com/2aAvLGa.jpg

they wdn't have that record if Johan Santana was still pitching

Pete Alonso passed Mark McGwire and Albert Pujols tonight for most home runs in a player's first 50 games. The list:

1-t. Gary Sanchez, 19
1-t. Cody Bellinger, 19
3-t. Rhys Hoskins, 18
3-t. Wally Berger, 18
5-t. Pete Alonso, 17
5-t. Wally Joyner, 17
5-t. Jose Abreu, 17

— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) May 25, 2019

wally joyner!

for some reason, wally joyner is one of my very first baseball memories, one of the very first names i remember being aware of. no idea why, because his angels wouldn't have played in any cardinals games i may have saw on my grandpa's tv in 86-88

looks like wally only hit 5 more HRs in the other 104 games he played in 1986

he was touted!

he always reminded me of matthew broderick. i remember being excited that i had his rookie card. surely one day it would be worth lots of money. see also: kent hrbek

he was good! just never thought of him as a power guy. see also: mark grace

where have you gone, first basemen who hit .300, take more walks than K's, and only hit a dozen homers

paul o'neill in the mid 90s was a little like this

no it's true those guys were good. not mattingly/boggs level but very very good.

I too remember stocking up on Wally Joyner rookie cards

1989 NLCS, Giants over the Cubs in five

Mark Grace: 11-for-17, HR, 3B, 3 2B, 8 RBI, 4 BB, K

Will Clark: 13-for-20, 2 HR, 3B, 3 2B, 8 RBI, 2 BB, 2 K

thank god steve bedrosian didn't win MVP for saving three games

Josh Bell and total bases

https://www.mlb.com/news/josh-bell-finishes-record-breaking-may

A #Brewers note you may have missed yesterday -- according to the Jewish Baseball News, Ryan Braun's 332nd career home run now gives him the most of any Jewish player in MLB history, passing Hank Greenberg. https://t.co/fML4F6eHJW

— JR Radcliffe (@JRRadcliffe) June 8, 2019

truly the Manischewitz of juicing

I always think Greenberg has a higher HR total than he does. A baseball counting stat casualty of WW2

13-HR game

https://sports.yahoo.com/diamondbacks-phillies-crush-13-home-060846119.html

the wilmington (delaware) blue rocks, a royals affiliate in the high-a carolina league, are 40-22 with a -11 run differential

they are 23-6 in one-run games

um i believe that's called clutch hitting look it up

Derek Law has never started a game any professional (MLB or MiLB) or collegiate level.

He'll start for the Blue Jays tonight.

— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) June 12, 2019

waht

um dudes, this happens all the time nowadays:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opener_(baseball)

as an opener? xp

(shitty ilx url parse code will fuck that up so add a close parenth.)

(...countdown til st3t chimes in with some snarky "this only happens on Firefox run on OS" BS lol...)

idk, i don't think there are that many big league relievers who were never starters in college/low minors

even sergio romo was a starter for a year or two

meanwhile

The Mariners have homered in 59 of their 70 games this season and the opposing team has homered in the other 11 games.

The 70 straight games with a homer by at least one team is longest streak in MLB history, breaking mark of 69 by 1985 Orioles, 2017 White Sox & 2017 Rangers).

— Greg Johns (@GregJohnsMLB) June 12, 2019

rangers prospect jonathan hernandez has made 11 starts for double-a frisco this season; he's given up a homer on his first pitch in four of them

he's allowed only four other homers in 59 innings

ok that's an instant classic of the genre

Shohei Ohtani became the first Japanese-born player to hit for the cycle in major league history.

And I remind you that nothing is more trivial than a cycle.

You'd think that in 2005 either Ichiro or Dave Roberts would have chanced upon a cycle but no:

year/player: singles/doubles/triples/HRs
2005 Ichiro: 158/21/12/15
2005 Roberts: 76/19/10/8
2019 Otani: 23/2/1/8

Pretty wild that Otani only has 2 doubles on the year...

a trio of met greats

Rays threw 57 pitches to Yankees in the 1st inning today. But wow @StatsBySTATS found that the record since 1988 (when pitch-by-pitch data started) is 99! Rangers scored 16 runs against the Orioles in the 8th on 4/19/96 (Armando Benitez, Jesse Orosco & infielder Manny Alexander).

— James Smyth (@JamesSmyth621) June 19, 2019

quite an inning: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/TEX/TEX199604190.shtml