In Monday's Cardinals/Brewers game, Albert Pujols went to first base on a walk after having received only three balls. No one noticed (including the umpire)...
I have a dvd at home that shows John McSherry emphatically calling a batter out on strike 2. I don't think it mentions the year. With the semester ending and...
Trent McCotter wrote, "In Monday's Cardinals/Brewers game, Albert Pujols went to first base on a walk after having received only three balls. No one noticed...
Does anyone know how Elias or STATS handles these 3-ball walks or 2- strike strikeouts when they compile their splits? A lot of places are starting to list...
What I suspect happens is that the scorer has to add in the Ball or Strike in order to even get the program to work. If you looked at the spring training...
Does anyone know when 10.23 was added to the MLB rulebook? The section deals with defining consecutive hit streaks, consecutive game hitting streaks, and...
Nemec's book The Official Rules of Baseball says this rule (the old 10.24b and 10.24c) was "drawn up before the 1974 season." Clem Comly ... From: Trent To:...
From August 20, 2006, through May 3, 2007 (second game), Derek Jeter played in 61 games in which he had an official AB. He had a hit in 59 of those 61, and he...
I made a typo on the date of Jeter's first hitting streak; it should read: 25 game hitting streak 8/20/2006-9/16/2006(G2) --hitless on 9/17/2006(G2)-- 14 game...
When I was watching Thursday's Rockies-Giants game, there was a mention that Omar Vizquel had tied Ozzie Smith for the all time record for DPs by a shortstop. ...
The newly-updated encyclopedia at members.sabr.org shows Vizquel with 1567 DPs at SS entering this season. Everyone shows 24DPs thus far in 2007, which puts...
I don't know if this has been mentioned yet but Fred Lewis hit for the cycle yesterday for the Giants against Colorado. The radio announcers were speculating...
As far as games played, Elias reported that this was the earliest cycle since Gary Ward, in 1980, hit for the cycle in his 14th game. Lewis was playing in his...
MLB.com's game story, written by someone who is completely separate from the stats, gave credit to Vizquel breaking the record on Sunday when he participated...
Earlier this month, Bartolo Colon won his 12th consecutive start against Texas. According to Elias, Pedro Martinez is the only other pitcher to win 12...
Hi Lyle and all, I seem to recall (and you can't go by that) that there was a long winning streak involving an A's pitcher or against an A's pitcher. Is it...
I know Dave Stewart had a 14-gamer vs Seattle. My point was that there have been many long streaks, and my surprise was that only Colon's and Martinez' were in...
... It does seem unlikely that no other pitcher has done this. I would expect that, in the earlier years of baseball when no decisions were rare for starters,...
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=2863515 which is also from Elias, says: "Charlie "Old Hoss" Radbourn won his first 20 decisions against...
... there have been many long streaks, and my surprise was that only Colon's and Martinez' were in 12 consecutive starts. ... I talked to Steve Hirdt at Elias,...
Sounds like a good subject of a few lists in the next version of the List and Record book. Ellis Kinder beat the White Sox 18 consecutive times, though the...
SABR has been getting a lot of press lately with Bobby Cox about to set a "record" for most ejections. How confident are we in this? I recall talking to Doug...
Good question, Mark. David Vincent is the keeper of the data, and is working toward making it available later this fall. Much work has gone into confirming...
What Doug told me was that finding ejections was like finding "hidden ball tricks". While you can certainly verify that an ejection occurred, there is no way...
What Doug told me was that finding ejections was like finding "hidden ball tricks". While you can certainly verify that an ejection occurred, there is no way...
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