2021 MLB Regular Season thread

3 total hits in Dodgers Mariners game, Dodgers win 1-0. Urias 7 innings of 1-hit 11-K ball.

Crazy stat: There were at least 24 0-2 counts. That's hard to do.

 

9 years ago today I was eating at Pat's Diner in South Trenton and watched Phil Humber pitch his perfect game.

It was the first of 3 perfect games in 116 days with Matt Cain (6/13/12) and King Felix (8/15/12) to follow.






It was the one and only time Humber finished a game that he started, which is pretty amazing.

Code:

                                                                                 
Year     Tm  W  L  ERA  G GS GF CG SHO    IP   H   R  ER HR  BB  SO WP  FIP  WHIP
2006    NYM  0  0 0.00  2  0  1  0   0   2.0   0   0   0  0   1   2  0 2.65 0.500
2007    NYM  0  0 7.71  3  1  2  0   0   7.0   9   6   6  1   2   2  0 5.38 1.571
2008    MIN  0  0 4.63  5  0  2  0   0  11.2  11   6   6  4   5   6  0 8.10 1.371
2009    MIN  0  0 8.00  8  0  3  0   0   9.0  17   8   8  1   9   9  1 5.54 2.889
2010    KCR  2  1 4.15  8  1  1  0   0  21.2  22  10  10  1   7  16  2 3.31 1.338
2011    CHW  9  9 3.75 28 26  0  0   0 163.0 151  71  68 14  41 116  9 3.58 1.178
2012    CHW  5  5 6.44 26 16  6  1   1 102.0 113  74  73 23  44  85  9 5.77 1.539
2013    HOU  0  8 7.90 17  7  2  0   0  54.2  75  48  48  9  20  36  5 5.02 1.738
8 Yr   8 Yr 16 23 5.31 97 51 17  1   1 371.0 398 223 219 53 129 272 26 4.60 1.420
162     162  7 11 5.31 45 23  8  0   0   170 183 102 101 24  59 125 12 4.60 1.420
                                                                                 
MIN     MIN  0  0 6.10 13  0  5  0   0  20.2  28  14  14  5  14  15  1 6.99 2.032
NYM     NYM  0  0 6.00  5  1  3  0   0   9.0   9   6   6  1   3   4  0 4.77 1.333
CHW     CHW 14 14 4.79 54 42  6  1   1 265.0 264 145 141 37  85 201 18 4.43 1.317
KCR     KCR  2  1 4.15  8  1  1  0   0  21.2  22  10  10  1   7  16  2 3.31 1.338
HOU     HOU  0  8 7.90 17  7  2  0   0  54.2  75  48  48  9  20  36  5 5.02 1.738
                                                                                 
AL (   AL ( 16 23 5.30 92 50 14  1   1 362.0 389 217 213 52 126 268 26 4.60 1.423
NL (   NL (  0  0 6.00  5  1  3  0   0   9.0   9   6   6  1   3   4  0 4.77 1.333

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 4/21/2021.

 

That is wild.

 

Yankee fans Baseball journalists have officially reached the meltdown phase of this baseball campaign. Barely 10% into the season, and in midseason form:

https://www.sny.tv/articles/yankees-should-consider-benching-gleyber-torres-or-optioning-him

 

And it was a few blocks from there ol' Dante first smacked his 19-year old pregnant girlfriend.

Hazel Mae sucks.

 

Pirates' Ke'Bryan Hayes: Aggravates wrist injury

The Pirates really can't have nice things. If I had to bet, the doctors missed something the first time around and the injury is much worse than originally thought.

 

On this date in 1959, the White Sox scored 11 runs in one inning with only 1 hit: a single by Johnny Callison.

10 walks, 3 Kansas City errors, 1 hit batsman.

Chicago White Sox at Kansas City Athletics Box Score, April 22, 1959 | Baseball-Reference.com (baseball-reference.com)

 

Good God, everyone talks about the A's being a feeder system for the Yankees, but the White Sox had the core of a dynasty and pissed it away in the span of two years.

25-year-old Norm Cash traded to the Indians, then the Tigers.
25-year-old Johnny Callison traded to the Phillies.
25-year-old Luis Aparicio traded to the Orioles.
24-year-old Earl Battey and 21-year-old Don Mincher to the Senators.

Later, Jim Landis would be involved in the trade that sent Tommie Agee and Tommy John to the White Sox.

 

one of Maddux's first starts. Look how noisy the delivery was before his becoming.

 

Peak Davey Johnson stache in that game.

 

Imagine having a $200 million payroll and Mike Ford hitting clean-up.

Also, the home plate umpire in this Yankees-Indians game is awful. He’s missing strikes and calling stuff four inches off a strike.