Here's where you can discuss baseball's hidden feats, streaks, and patterns, as well as historical oddities and exceptionally good and bad achievements you've never heard of. This group is a companion to the blogs Baseball Esoterica and Esoteric Boxscore of the Day.
Home run to win 1-0 game by player with same first name as winning pitcher. (Since 1957) http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1963/B07100NYN1963.htm 7/10/63 -
On 4/19/07, Jake Peavy hit a double and a triple off of Livan Hernandez in the Padres 11-6 win over the Diamondbacks. Peavy previously had two extra-base hits
On another list, an anonymous hitting instructor was cited as ... [emphasis in original]. While Carl Yastrzemski was certainly above average in this category,