2010 Baseball Thread No. 2 (which was my Little League number!)

I think the traveling secretary was bribing Cox into starting Maddux on getaway day as often as possible. He might give up eight hits, but the game still would only last two hours and 10 minutes.

 

This reminds me of my dad. Back when the Phillies sucked in the late 80s and early 90s, he would celebrate when they got win No. 63.

 

You ever want to be in and out of a ballpark quickly, go to a minor-league game on the day before an off day. (Though it's probably true in the majors, as well.)

When I used to go to FSL games a lot, I'd occasionally hit a Saturday night game before a Sunday league off day. Those games never took longer than about 2:10.

That's one reason Maddux never threw a no-hitter. He'd rather give up a hit than waste pitches walking a guy.

And Steak, your memory is off just a little. Retrosheet says Maddux pitched into the 7th, though the game still only lasted 2:16.

 

It's cool. You have to remember it was 16 years ago and I was working on about three hours sleep that day. All the Braves' pitchers looked the same from our seats in the right-field bleachers.

Speaking of that, the right-field stands in Fulton County were my favorite seats back in the day. Not only did you have a decent shot at a home run ball with Fred McGriff, Terry Pendleton, David Justice and (later) Ryan Klesko and Chipper Jones on the team at the time, but Justice would always throw the two warm-up balls into the stands before the top of the ninth inning.

 

Roy Oswalt has asked the Astros to trade him:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5209198

 

My nominee for worst hitter in baseball history: Mr. Bill Bergen

Granted, it was the dead-ball era. But the guy played 11 seasons, and only hit over .200 once (.227 in 1903).

In 1909, he hit .139. Yes, that's .139. And he did it playing the most games of his career (112). Somehow he hit a home run that season, one of two for his career. His primary backup, Doc Marshall, hit .201 in 50 games and the third string catcher, Joe Dunn, batted .160 in 10 games. Brooklyn finished sixth that year.

And it's not like the guy's stats are low because he never played. The least amount of games he played was 51 in 1907, and he batted .159 that year.

He was an excellent fielder with a .972 fielding percentage, and he threw out 47 percent of base stealers. Remarkable, every year he threw out between 44 and 51 percent of stealers. Pretty damn consistent.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bergebi01.shtml

 

Blue Jays hit six homers --- all of them solo shots --- in an 8-6 loss at Arizona tonight. Edwin Encarnacion hit three of them himself.

 

Jays were done in by Dan Haren, who had three hits including two doubles, and three RBI.

That place was a launching pad last night. There were some balls hit a long way.

 

The Giants might want to consider going to the plate without bats.
They might stand a better chance of generating offense from random wildness and HBP's.

 

Elroy Face, er, Frank Francisco in the game for the Rangers.