trivial occurrences 2018

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

4 bases-loaded BBs in a row :( :( :( :(

never threw another pitch again : /

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well.. he was a shortstop

This was Fri/Sat. Five minutes ago they added a third straight on a GWHR by one Will Smith.

The @Dodgers are the first team EVER to have rookies hit walk-off HRs on back-to-back days in @MLB history.

h/t @EliasSports via @ESPNStatsInfo pic.twitter.com/mDb1zkUWIl

— MLB Stats (@MLBStats) June 23, 2019

#Orioles' Hanser Alberto entered today with the fourth-best batting average in the American League, but he was outslugging only one of the league's other top 50 hitters. Guess which one? Miguel Cabrera. (h/t @JoeTrezz)

— Nathan Ruiz (@NathanSRuiz) June 26, 2019

From @EliasSports: Over his last 10 games, DJ LeMahieu is batting .537 (22 for 41) with 16 runs scored and 18 RBIs. LeMahieu is the first Yankees player since Mickey Mantle in May 1955 to have at least a .500 batting average, 15 runs and 15 RBIs over a 10-game span.

— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) June 30, 2019

Per SNY, since 1935, only Wade Boggs and Joe DiMaggio had more hits in their first 500 official MLB at-bats than Jeff McNeil.
And he would have tied Joe D. if not for that Urshela play.

— Peter Botte (@PeterBotte) July 4, 2019

Has a team ever batted around twice or more in one inning? If so, has anyone ever made all three outs in one inning? (I'm watching the CHC-PIT game on too little sleep and these things come to me.)

it never even occurred to me that it might be the pirates who were doing the batting around

speaking of which, jordan lyles' teams are about to fall to 0-16 in games he has started in july

the Gurriel bros have put on quite a show over the last 30 days, 22 HR in something like 190 at bats.

Brandon Crawford: 4-for-5, 3 R, 6 RBI

Mike Yastrzemski: 4-for-5, 3 R, 3 RBI

The last Giants teammates to have at least 4 hits, 3 runs, 3 RBI in the same game:

Barry Bonds and Matt Williams on April 18, 1993, vs. the Braves at Candlestick Park.

— Andrew Simon (@AndrewSimonMLB) July 15, 2019

Travis D'Arnaud is the first catcher in MLB history to have a 3-HR game out of the leadoff spot in the batting order https://t.co/ZYqoVDBfiE pic.twitter.com/KPd2Sq3XOG

— Baseball Reference (@baseball_ref) July 16, 2019

This is the second time in franchise history the Rays have hit back-to-back HR to start a game.

The other time was June 15, 1998, when Quinton McCracken and Wade Boggs went deep off the Blue Jays' Woody Williams to start a game in Tampa.

— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) July 18, 2019

crazy to think boggs was playing in 98!!

keston hiura is the first brewers rookie to win a player of the week award

The #SFGiants are now the first MLB team in the live-ball era to win six extra-inning games in a 10-game span (via @StatsBySTATS). pic.twitter.com/zWt8N2bhMI

— San Francisco Giants (@SFGiants) July 27, 2019

appalachian league pitcher struck out five in one inning last night

haha whut? dropped third strikes i guess?

i think it was more guys swinging at wild pitches, but yeah. last happened in the minors in 2014

Nelson Cruz has three home runs today for the second time in his past eight games or something. Is that a record?

he won't make the HOF but he's a beast.

I'd argue 6 games as he was benched during the NL-rules Marlins series.

the juiced ball is starting to give me some sympathy for the PED-era HR champs. if MLB itself is going to shatter the record books by juicing, that kind of makes mark mcgwire a.... pioneer?

Bo Bichette is already past 10% of the way to his dad's career bWAR total!

wow his dad's 1999 season is stunning

.298/.354/.541, 34 homers, 133 RBI, -2.3 bWAR, -2.1 fWAR

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/dante-bichettes-unbelievable-1999-season/

Bichette and Cruz both on this chart (highest % of HR hit after 30):

https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/private/t_16x9/t_w1024/mlb/cqizmrwwvs65lrxacnar

This is the 4th time this season that Lourdes and Yuli Gurriel have homered on the same day.

— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) August 7, 2019

Bo Bichette has an extra-base hit in nine consecutive games, which hasn’t been accomplished by a rookie since 1939.

you might've guessed who?

https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2019/08/08/bo-bichette-accomplishes-feat-last-done-by-ted-williams-in-1939/

...esp if you read the Toronto thread