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</div> <div class='status-msg-border'> <div class='status-msg-bg'> <div class='status-msg-hidden'>Showing posts with label <b>ohtani</b>. <a href="http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/">Show all posts</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>October 13, 2024</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='6521916428655507627'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2024/10/nlcs-dodgers-mets-alcs-guardians-yankees.html'>NLCS: Dodgers / Mets<br>ALCS: Guardians / Yankees</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh2UezgwJgE0dNRnGSUQksdZc61SV8m2sX1hxXqFUM1qjdjvmu2tdcw_BbYWxZwGGCq_aYRSqg-4RV5iu6P5S26jFeDmccJWwCCpbJ6xXn7cn3vXmwQCFNJpzCQQ2i_sYhlbdMxJZ4ybKFr2eTP3U4psS6B9GsqzSlJRTXsDZ44oasJKxp6hziVA/s1602/Screenshot%202024-10-13%20135837.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="1602" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh2UezgwJgE0dNRnGSUQksdZc61SV8m2sX1hxXqFUM1qjdjvmu2tdcw_BbYWxZwGGCq_aYRSqg-4RV5iu6P5S26jFeDmccJWwCCpbJ6xXn7cn3vXmwQCFNJpzCQQ2i_sYhlbdMxJZ4ybKFr2eTP3U4psS6B9GsqzSlJRTXsDZ44oasJKxp6hziVA/w692-h388/Screenshot%202024-10-13%20135837.jpg" width="692" /></a></div> <p>Baseball Gods . . . if you're listening . . . please arrange a Dodgers/Guardians World Series.</p><p>MLB.com offers its picks, from <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/2024-mlb-league-championship-series-predictions" target="_blank">45 "experts"</a>:</p><p></p><blockquote><p><b>NLCS: </b><b>Mets 26, Dodgers 19</b></p><p></p><pre>Mets in 5: 5 votes<br />Mets in 6: 17 votes<br />Mets in 7: 4 votes<br /><br />Dodgers in 5: 1 vote<br />Dodgers in 6: 14 votes<br />Dodgers in 7: 4 votes</pre><p><b>ALCS: </b><b>Yankees 33, Guardians 12</b></p><p></p><pre>Yankees in 5: 15 votes<br />Yankees in 6: 11 votes<br />Yankees in 7: 7 votes<br /><br />Guardians in 5: 1 vote<br />Guardians in 6: 3 votes<br />Guardians in 7: 8 votes</pre></blockquote><pre></pre><p><a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/41741411/mlb-playoffs-2024-alcs-nlcs-predictions-world-series-yankees-guardians-mets-dodgers" target="_blank">Picks from ESPN</a>:</p><p><b></b></p><blockquote><p><b>NLCS: Dodgers 8, Mets 6</b></p><p></p><pre>Dodgers in 5: 2 votes<br />Dodgers in 6: 4 votes<br />Dodgers in 7: 2 votes<br /><br />Mets in 6: 2 votes<br />Mets in 7: 4 votes</pre><p><b>ALCS: Yankees 12, Guardians 1 </b><b></b></p><pre>Yankees in 5: 1 vote<br />Yankees in 6: 6 votes<br />Yankees in 7: 5 votes<br /><br />Guardians in 7: 1 vote*</pre></blockquote><div><i>*: For the record, David Schoenfield picked the Spiders.</i></div><div><br /></div><div>I don't know why ESPN has 14 NLCS votes but only 13 ALCS votes.</div><br /> According to Will Leitch's <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/ranking-the-four-potential-world-series-matchups" target="_blank">ranking</a>, my World Series wish is (alas) the least "fascinating", after Dodgers/Yankees (11 previous WS battles), Mets/Yankees, and Guardians/Mets.<div><br /></div><div>A few Shohei Ohtani late-season factoids, courtesy of <a href="https://x.com/OptaSTATS" target="_blank">OptaSTATS</a>:</div><div></div><blockquote><div><a href="https://x.com/OptaSTATS/status/1836920815578927157" target="_blank">Since RBI became</a> official in 1920, only one MLB player has had, over the course of his entire career (same game or not), a game with 10+ RBI, a game with 6+ hits, a game with 5+ XBH, a game with 3+ HR, a game with 2+ SB. That one player is Shohei Ohtani. He did all of it today [September 29].</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://x.com/OptaSTATS/status/1838030877198106819" target="_blank">Last 4 games</a> for the @Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani [September 19-22]:</div><div><div>14 hits, 13 RBI, 6 SB, 5 HR</div><div>If every MLB player since 1920 (when RBI became an official stat) took the best 4-game span of his career in each category separately and put them together, still no one could match that stat line.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://x.com/OptaSTATS/status/1839864610012442916" target="_blank">Shohei Ohtani of </a>the @Dodgers ha[d] 10 home runs and 16 stolen bases in September after having 12 homers and 15 stolen bases in August. All other players in MLB history have had one month with at least 10 HR & 14 SB <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">–</span> Carlos Beltran in August 2004.</div><div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://x.com/OptaSTATS/status/1842249709362074082" target="_blank">Shohei Ohtani finished</a> the 2024 regular season in the top 5 in MLB in runs (1st), hits (4th), home runs (2nd), RBI (2nd), walks (4th) & stolen bases (2nd). No one else has ever finished a season in the top 5 in MLB in all of those categories (since RBI became official in 1920).</div><div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://x.com/OptaSTATS/status/1840561664568983975" target="_blank">Take any single league</a> (AL, NL, etc.) in any season in the past. Take any player's HR total, any player's SB total & any player's TB total from that league that season. You still could not build a stat line to match what Shohei Ohtani did this year (54 HR, 59 SB, 411 TB).</div></div></div></blockquote><div><div><div></div><div>Also: Ohtani finished second in MLB in both home runs (Judge, 58) and stolen bases (Elly De La Cruz, 67). The only other players to finish in the top-2 in MLB in both categories: 1908 Honus Wagner and 1909 Ty Cobb.</div></div></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> by <span class='fn'>allan</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2024/10/nlcs-dodgers-mets-alcs-guardians-yankees.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2024-10-13T14:36:00-07:00'>2:36 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/5730822/6521916428655507627' onclick=''>3 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/5730822/6521916428655507627' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-47734877'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5730822&postID=6521916428655507627&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/ohtani' rel='tag'>ohtani</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>January 2, 2024</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='8288837519829855044'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2024/01/jayson-stark-presents-weird-wild.html'>Jayson Stark Presents The Weird, Wild, Wackiest, Mind-Blowing Oddities Of 2023</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> Like Pepperidge Farms, Jayson Stark remembers.<br /><br /> Way back on April 16, I saw a crazy pitching line, hit <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/" target="_blank">Baseball Reference</a>'s amazing <a href="https://stathead.com/sport/baseball/" target="_blank">Stathead</a>, and (as I sometimes do) emailed the oddity-obsessed Stark: <blockquote>You'll probably hear this elsewhere, but Luis Cessa (3-14-11-3-0, 88 vs the Reds today) is the <b>FIRST</b> pitcher since at least 1900 to allow 11+ runs, 14+ hits, and get 9 or fewer outs.<br /><br /> How is it possible no one did that before? Ralph Comstock allowed 12 runs and 14 hits in 1913 but he lasted 3.1 innings!<br /><br /> <a href="https://stathead.com/tiny/W8FOK" target="_blank">https://stathead.com/tiny/W8FOK</a></blockquote> Stark has a good filing system – although being more organized than I am would not take much effort, planning, or thought – because this appeared more than eight months later in one of his <a href="https://theathletic.com/5157673/2023/12/26/mlb-2023-wild-hitting-pitching-stats/" target="_blank">year-end wrap-ups</a>:<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUYZDIV7RfT05MZhdttfBwzJHiHuuQ_Ezwx2-H-ptkoKpZF-q-bpNbrQI7cWQOPTUgUGwnzzbouVzexC3WU17cY4LgXAXL79i02UFgTMoB6ET5lCKX-o_4QL9PQZ9GQk9JB3TLerrMLMutIOy3WWtqDPihOTv0e3jEkifqG4KKa0JbdsEiZGSKEQ/s1224/stark-cessa.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" 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Toilet Setback</a><br /> <a href="https://theathletic.com/5159446/2023/12/27/mlb-strangest-teams-games-2023/" target="_blank">The Year In Strange But True: MLB's Weirdest & Wildest Teams And Games Of 2023</a><br /> <a href="https://theathletic.com/5157673/2023/12/26/mlb-2023-wild-hitting-pitching-stats/" target="_blank">The Year In Strange But True: MLB's 20 Most Mind-Blowing Hitting And Pitching Feats Of 2023</a><br /> <a href="https://theathletic.com/5126812/2023/12/11/shohei-ohtani-contract-10-numbers-dodgers/" target="_blank">The Incomparable Shohei Ohtani: 10 Magic Numbers That Reflect His Rare Greatness</a></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> by <span class='fn'>allan</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2024/01/jayson-stark-presents-weird-wild.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr 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The 2023 unanimous AL MVP made the announcement himself on Saturday afternoon.</p><p>The $700,000,000 is obviously the largest player contract in sports history – and will likely hold the top spot for a while. The inner workings of the deal involve deferred payments, so Ohtani's annual salary (reflected in LA's annual payrolls) will be in the $50 million range.</p><p>Ohtani, who turns 30 next July, had elbow surgery in mid-September and will not pitch in 2024. Which will hurt his chances to be crowned the unanimous NL MVP next fall.</p><p>The 2023 Dodgers became the first team to win 100+ games in four consecutive full seasons (106, 106, 111, 100). And <i>now</i> they've added the most complete player in baseball history.</p><p>In other news, the Red Sox made a rare deal of substance with the Yankees, sending Alex Verdugo, who completely wore out his welcome with manager Alex Cora, to the Bronx for a trio of right-handed pitchers (Richard Fitts, Greg Weissert, and Nicholas Judice). Fitts was named the Eastern League Pitcher of the Year for 2023.</p><p>The MFY also traded for Juan Soto, who is set to become a free agent after next season. With any luck, this will simply be a one-year rental. But it sucks, no matter how you slice it. Maybe Verdugo can do us a favour and sabotage some shit over there.</p><p>Hey, Yoshinobu Yamamoto . . . umm, you wanna come to Boston and finish in last place?</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7BVNf6TWlqz0r4jxxes1-hJ4BWIpaHHDE6zTD2Pny8Z-lT4UPZqaAytyQwPpRb3y-CTF_kyEGsXtzoHkGNsZb-_WOhnrqhXddANbcu9ARkIj1ZMOFXrIQOnyY7yS8Y4TV3lAM/s1600/red-sock.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7BVNf6TWlqz0r4jxxes1-hJ4BWIpaHHDE6zTD2Pny8Z-lT4UPZqaAytyQwPpRb3y-CTF_kyEGsXtzoHkGNsZb-_WOhnrqhXddANbcu9ARkIj1ZMOFXrIQOnyY7yS8Y4TV3lAM/s200/red-sock.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjgA_D_5d1R6eYVgAM2yuP2MZwtfdMd_p9pHCOVgEIe_NCOKyC5_WQipss1zhU7yKCC-Rk8i61KM5QD2SwvQlTPulAo6pD4dgo8nkzUwPBD8L5wJJzrVbEEY_e4109oIMXjPcpp9coDiqT-9U389aL3jAEd-OP5WVwLaI-7vhEuseVP3i-txgqoQ/s1600/Screenshot%202023-12-10%20132357.png" style="clear: left; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="1020" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjgA_D_5d1R6eYVgAM2yuP2MZwtfdMd_p9pHCOVgEIe_NCOKyC5_WQipss1zhU7yKCC-Rk8i61KM5QD2SwvQlTPulAo6pD4dgo8nkzUwPBD8L5wJJzrVbEEY_e4109oIMXjPcpp9coDiqT-9U389aL3jAEd-OP5WVwLaI-7vhEuseVP3i-txgqoQ/w486-h147/Screenshot%202023-12-10%20132357.png" width="486" /></a></div><p></p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> by <span class='fn'>allan</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2023/12/ohtani-announces-hes-signing-with.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2023-12-10T00:30:00-08:00'>12:30 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/5730822/2376276502918243780' onclick=''>2 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/5730822/2376276502918243780' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-47734877'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5730822&postID=2376276502918243780&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/ohtani' rel='tag'>ohtani</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>July 20, 2023</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='4709112863939394199'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2023/07/ohtani-taking-serious-aim-at-60-home.html'>Ohtani Taking Serious Aim At 60 Home Runs This Year</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQZCUuzWiJWTXkAYKT7UAXFyXX8keSZBoIa8kChGggzaeZjPNh9fWRfuhxPNlbFSRr6Cnssxd9g000G78ONuj1J0bfWAOMHCOefgGM8v4KBIzsPakGXw_4OyNAK3_f9UVZ8Bwk7qirDfd14teQAzkVyrBcuPWSEH09CIH8QL0Id_faeA_hV8Nz0g/s1385/ohtani-contact.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="1385" height="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQZCUuzWiJWTXkAYKT7UAXFyXX8keSZBoIa8kChGggzaeZjPNh9fWRfuhxPNlbFSRr6Cnssxd9g000G78ONuj1J0bfWAOMHCOefgGM8v4KBIzsPakGXw_4OyNAK3_f9UVZ8Bwk7qirDfd14teQAzkVyrBcuPWSEH09CIH8QL0Id_faeA_hV8Nz0g/w633-h393/ohtani-contact.PNG" width="633" /></a></div><p>Through almost 100 games, free-agent-to-be Shohei Ohtani is hitting home runs at roughly the same pace Aaron Judge did last season when the Yankees slugger set an American League record with 62  dongs.</p><p>The 2023 Angels have played 97 games and Ohtani has hit 35 home runs. That pace would give him <b>58.5 home runs</b> for the 162-game season.</p><p>When the 2022 Yankees had played 97 games, Judge had hit 37 home runs. (He had 34 through 94 games.)</p><p>Ohtani belted 15 home runs in June, with a batting line of .394/.492/.952 for a 1.444 OPS. His average this month is only .277, but he has a 1.109 OPS, thanks to a preponderance of extra-base hits (1 double, 2 triples, 5 home runs, and only 5 singles).</p><div>There are <a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/38024142/mlb-trade-deadline-2023-shohei-ohtani-angels-yankees-dodgers-mets-rangers" target="_blank">many</a> <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/ranking-potential-shohei-ohtani-trade-suitors" target="_blank">articles</a> <a href="https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/who-will-trade-for-shohei-ohtani-most-likely-a-team-willing-to-commit-mega-money-to-him-for-the-long-haul-004227799.html" target="_blank">about</a> <a href="https://www.si.com/mlb/2023/07/19/shohei-ohtani-trade-rumors-proposals-yankees-dodgers-phillies" target="_blank">plausible</a> landing spots for Ohtani, who turned 29 earlier this month, in either a trade this month (unlikely) or a mega-signing over the winter, and what those teams might need to offer. I have yet to see an article that mentions the Red Sox, even as a super-long-shot candidate. <a href="https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/shohei-ohtani-trade-destinations-ranking-29-possible-landing-spots-based-on-whos-best-positioned-for-deal/" target="_blank">This ranking</a> puts Boston #21, but all 29 non-LAA teams are mentioned. . . .<i>Wait!</i> <a href="https://www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/what-would-a-shohei-ohtani-trade-look-like-we-made-proposals-for-12-different-teams" target="_blank">Here we go!!</a> A hypothetical trade:</div><p></p><blockquote><p>Boston Red Sox: SS Marcelo Mayer, RHP Brayan Bello, 2B Nick Yorke, OF/SS Ceddanne Rafaela</p><p>Yes, seeing the Red Sox on this list is surprising. Boston is not the favorite to acquire him in a trade, let alone spend half a billion in free agency. But the Red Sox are playing well right now, entering Wednesday just 1.5 games out of a wild card spot. A staff ace like Ohtani would grease the wheels in their playoff hunt while potentially swaying him to stay put at Fenway and play for a big-market team.</p><p>So Boston would have to push an extremely strong offer in the Angels' direction, and it all starts with Mayer. The 20-year-old shortstop is a top-three prospect in baseball with an enormous ceiling as a potential five-tool player. Pair him with Yorke, who has been turning heads since he handled the jump to Double-A, and Los Angeles would be looking at a dynamic duo up the middle for several years to come. Throw in Rafaela and the Red Sox could be competitive in the Ohtani bidding while, of course, mortgaging their future for what could be just a two-month rental. But it doesn't hurt to dream.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>No team should trade the farm for Ohtani unless they are at least 75-80% sure he would sign with them and avoid free agency. Boston is not a team like that and why wouldn't Ohtani go FA? Getting him would be a true shock, of course, and it would involve maybe three moving vans full of money. It won't happen, but fuck it, hoping for a miracle costs me nothing.</p><p>By the way, how many of you remember this from last year?</p><p><a href="https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2022/12/7/23498096/mlb-different-baseballs-2022-juiced-yankees-aaron-judge" target="_blank"></a></p> <blockquote><p><a href="https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2022/12/7/23498096/mlb-different-baseballs-2022-juiced-yankees-aaron-judge" target="_blank">MLB Used Different Baseballs In 2022, And Juiced Ones Showed Up At Yankees Games</a><br />Did MLB Help Aaron Judge's Home Run Record Pursuit With A Different Baseball?<br />James Dator, SB Nation, December 7, 2022</p> <blockquote>A widespread study of over 200 baseballs used during the 2022 season showed massive variance, pointing to a "juiced ball," a "dead ball" an[d] a "Goldilocks ball." <a href="https://www.insider.com/mlb-used-two-balls-again-this-year-and-evidence-points-to-a-third-2022-12" target="_blank">The study was conducted by astrophysicist Dr. Meredith Wills who does work for the Society for American Baseball Research, and aided by Insider</a> — who published the report on Wednesday morning.<br /><br />This isn't the first time there have been questions raised about using different baseballs inside a single MLB season. Dr. Wills previously found in 2019 that MLB was using a new ball, which contributed to baseball's scoring explosion. . . .<br /><br />In 2021 MLB was forced to use two different ball constructions for the season due to production difficulties due to Covid-19 of the new baseballs. . . . The new and old balls were distributed at random, but it didn't mean players were happy. . . .<br /><br />MLB commissioner Rob Manfred . . . admitt[ed] at the 2022 All Star game that MLB was forced to use the different balls — the first public acknowledgement of the issue from the league. At the time he assured fans that for 2022 there was no issue, and that every baseball in circulation for the season was of the new construction . . .<br /><br />The Wills and Insider report shows that of the 200 baseball they tested from the 2022 season the majority were from the new "dead" ball stock, which MLB said would be every ball for the season. However, they also found instances of the old "juiced" balls, as well as a third construction which fell into the middle — and is being dubbed the "Goldilocks ball," for being the perfect mix of weight and velocity. More alarming is that there appears, at least from the initial data, to show huge inconsistencies in the ball distribution across MLB ballparks.<br /><br />Wills and Insider found that 36 Goldilocks balls only appeared in four distinct situations:<br /><br />Special commemorative balls used on team anniversaries (6)<br />All-Star week (3)<br />Postseason (14)<br />Yankees games (11)<br /><p style="text-align: left;">It's that final point that's going to be the most contentious. Finding 11 baseballs is far from a smoking gun, but it is very curious that Goldilocks balls ramped up in use in Yankees home games as Aaron Judge was chasing Roger Maris' AL home run record. In August only two of the different balls were found, jumping to six in September, before dropping back off in October back to two. Judge broke the record on October 4.</p></blockquote></blockquote> <p>I would edit the first sentence in that last paragraph to read:</p><p></p><blockquote>. . . it is very curious that Goldilocks balls ramped up in use in Yankees home games <b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">–</span></b><b> </b>and <i>only</i> in Yankees home games<b> <span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">–</span></b><b> </b>as Aaron Judge was chasing Roger Maris' AL home run record.</blockquote><p></p><p>Manfred messes with the game, but it's always strictly "<a href="https://vault.si.com/vault/1976/06/28/bowie-stops-charlies-checks" target="_blank">in the best interests of baseball</a>". Hey, Bowie Kuhn, I know you died more than 16 years ago, but go fuck yourself. <i>(Yeah, I'm still a little bitter. It's only been 47 years.)</i></p><p>Like everyone else with a connection to baseball, Judge has <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/aaron-judge-weighs-in-on-shohei-ohtani" target="_blank">marveled</a> at what Ohtani can do.</p><p></p><blockquote>Records are meant to be broken. It's just a record. It'll be exciting for the game if he went out there and got 63-plus. We'll see what happens. . . . It's incredible. . . . I don't like watching it in person, when he's playing against us, doing what he's doing, but it's fun when you can turn on the TV and see that he's throwing eight innings, striking out 10 and hitting two homers in a game. . . . I tried a little toe tap like he does. . . . I haven't mastered that yet. I've still got a couple of more years.</blockquote><p></p><p>Ohtani also has a seven-game hit streak, in which he's batting .429 (12-for-28) with four homers and eight RBIs.</p><p>Judge has not played in a game since June 3, but he still leads the MFY with 40 RBI. (The AL's RBI leader has 80 runs batted in.)</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> by <span class='fn'>allan</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2023/07/ohtani-taking-serious-aim-at-60-home.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2023-07-20T17:58:00-07:00'>5:58 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/5730822/4709112863939394199' onclick=''>3 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/5730822/4709112863939394199' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-47734877'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5730822&postID=4709112863939394199&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/mlb%20can%27t%20do%20anything%20right' rel='tag'>mlb can't do anything right</a>, <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/ohtani' rel='tag'>ohtani</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='4891484239635173686'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2023/07/in-play-runs-12-teams-scored-ten-or.html'>In Play, Run(s): 12 Teams Scored Ten Or More Runs This Past Tuesday</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>Over the next eight days, the Red Sox will play five games and have three off-days. They are idle today, will host the Mets for three games over the weekend, have a day off on Monday, play Altanta twice, and then have another day off next Thursday, before heading out to San Francisco and Seattle.</p><p>The 38-year-old Justin Turner has a current hitting streak of <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=turneju01&t=b&year=2023#1472-1486-sum:batting_gamelogs" target="_blank">15 games</a>. It's the second-longest hit streak by a Red Sox batter age 38+, second only to Ted Williams's 17-game hitting streak in 1957. . . . However, hitting streaks at 38+ are not really a Thing.</p><p>TSW hit .533 (32-for-60) from <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=willite01&t=b&year=1957#1899-1915-sum:batting_gamelogs" target="_blank">July 23 to August 9, 1957</a>. He had an OBP of .608 and he slugged .783 for an OPS of 1.391. He finished that season with a .388 batting average. The MVP voting that year was, umm, <i><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/awards_1957.shtml#all_AL_MVP_voting" target="_blank">interesting</a>, </i>from a WAR perspective.</p><p>Turner has also hit safely in 29 of his last 33 games (since June 9), batting .349, with a 1.008 OPS. Not bad for an old man.</p><p>Speaking of elderly gentlemen, Nomar Garciaparra will turn 50 years old this weekend (Sunday, July 23).</p><p>MLB teams scored a shitload of runs this past Tuesday (<a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/?month=07&day=18&year=2023" target="_blank">July 18</a>). In fact, it was the first time in major league history that 12 different teams scored 10 or more runs in a game. (OptaSTATS <a href="https://twitter.com/OptaSTATS/status/1681533688410931200" target="_blank">pointed out</a> that 12 teams (in three leagues) did that on <a href="https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1884/05301884.htm" target="_blank">May 30, 1884</a> and 13 teams did it on <a href="https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1894/07041894.htm" target="_blank">July 4, 1894</a>, <b>but</b> "each of those involved team(s) doing so in both ends of a doubleheader (so fewer than 12 distinct teams were involved)".)</p><p></p><blockquote>Diamondbacks 16, Atlanta 13<br />Mets 11, White Sox 10<br />Royals 11, Tigers 10<br />Giants, 11, Reds 10<br />Twins 10, Mariners 3<br />Cubs 17, Nationals 3<br />Dodgers 10, Orioles 3<br />Guardians 10, Pirates 1</blockquote><p></p><p>(The Padres just missed the cut, with nine runs. Boston was shutout by Oakland 3-0.)</p><p><a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/historic-night-offense-mlb-july-18-2023" target="_blank">There were four games</a> in which both teams scored in double digits, tying a record with two dates during the same week of 1894 (<a href="https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1894/07041894.htm" target="_blank">July 4</a> and <a href="https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1894/07091894.htm" target="_blank">July 9</a>). That season was the second year in which the pitching mound was 60 feet, six inches, from the plate. Also, an average team in 1894 scored 7.38 runs per game as opposed to only 4.6 runs in 2023.</p><p>The 16-13 slugfest between the Diamondbacks and Atlanta was the first game in which both teams scored 13+ runs through the first eight innings since the Yankees beat the Red Sox <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS201906290.shtml" target="_blank">17-13</a> in London on June 29, 2019, a nutty affair in which both teams scored six runs in the first inning.</p><p>OptaSTATS <a href="https://twitter.com/OptaSTATS/status/1681541620699734017" target="_blank">tweeted</a> that last Tuesday, for the first time in major league history, five players had 2+ home runs and 5+ RBI in a game: Wilmer Flores (Giants), Josh Naylor (Guardians), Austin Riley (Atlanta), Spencer Torkelson (Tigers), and Christian Walker (Diamondbacks). </p><p><b>Other Fun Stuff In July From <a href="https://twitter.com/OptaSTATS" target="_blank">OptaSTATS</a></b></p><p><b></b></p><blockquote><p><b>July 1-2</b></p><p>Mookie Betts' 4th-inning groundout for the Dodgers tonight snapped his streak of 15 consecutive plate appearances without having a hitless at-bat (he went 7-for-7 with 6 BB & 2 SF during that stretch). That's tied for the longest streak by any MLB player in the last 50 years.</p><p><b>MLB, Most Consecutive PA without a Hitless AB - Last 50 Seasons</b><br />15 - Pedro Guerrero, Dodgers, July 23-27, 1985<br />15 - Frank Thomas, White Sox, May 16-20, 1997<br />15 - Barry Bonds, Giants, August 31-September 4, 1998<br />15 - John Olerud, Mets, September 16-22, 1998<br />15 - Mookie Betts, Dodgers, June 28-July 1, 2023</p><div>A string of 15 plate appearances by Mookie Betts:<br />home run <br />walk<br />walk<br />double<br />double<br />sacrifice fly<br />walk<br />home run</div><div>home run<br />single<br />walk<br />double</div><div>walk</div><div>walk<br />sacrifice fly</div><p><b>July 3</b></p><p>Homers for [Atlanta]:<br />56 in their last 21 games<br />54 in their last 20<br />53 in their last 19<br />52 in their last 18<br />50 in their last 17<br />47 in their last 16<br />46 in their last 15<br />43 in their last 14<br />All of those are the most or tied for the most over a span of that length in MLB history</p><div><b>July 4</b></div><p>The Tigers are the only MLB team to strike out 12+ batters while allowing 2 or fewer hits and 0 earned runs and yet lose the game (since earned runs became an official stat in 1913). MLB teams had been a combined 319-0-1 when putting up those numbers over that time (reg & post).</p><p>Today marks the 13th consecutive game that Ronald Acu帽a Jr. of [Atlanta] has either hit a home run or stolen a base. That's the longest streak by any MLB player in the modern era, surpassing the 12 straight by Oakland's Bert Campaneris in 1969 (entirely on stolen bases).</p><div><b>July 5</b></div><p>The Cincinnati Reds completed their 31st comeback win in their 87th game this year. In the last 50 seasons, only two MLB teams have had more comeback wins in their first 87 games of a season, the 2004 New York Yankees and the 1999 Cleveland[s], both with 34. <i>[JoS: So many comebacks for the 2004 Yankees, yet when they </i>really<i> needed one, they choked.]</i></p><p>Yesterday, Reds Elly De La Cruz and Spencer Steer became the first pair of rookie teammates in MLB history to both go 4-for-4 or better and drive in a run in the same game.</p><p><b>July 7</b></p><p>MLB players with at least a dozen XBH, a dozen walks, a dozen runs & a dozen RBI in a 10-game span (since RBI became official in 1920):<br />Babe Ruth (1921)<br />Rogers Hornsby (1928)<br />Mel Ott (1929)<br />Lou Gehrig (1935)<br />Vic Wertz (1950)<br />Ted Williams (1950, 1951)<br />Mookie Betts (2023)</p><p>Francisco Lindor of the Mets is the only MLB player in the modern era to have 8+ hits, multiple triples, multiple homers and multiple steals over a 2-game span.</p><p><b>July 8</b></p><p>The Tigers are the second team in MLB history to allow at least a dozen runs in one game and then no-hit that same team in their very next game. The other was the 1893 Baltimore Orioles, who allowed 14 runs to Washington on August 15 before Bill Hawke no-hit them the next day.</p><p>Lowest ERA over an MLB pitcher's first 8 career starts with a specific starting catcher (since ERA became official in 1913):<br />0.47 - Nolan Ryan with Mark Bailey (1984 Astros)<br />0.47 - Ervin Santana with Jason Castro (2017 Twins)<br />0.56 - Blake Snell with Gary S谩nchez (2023 Padres)</p><p>Elly De La Cruz of the Reds is the only MLB player in the last 50 years to steal second, third and home all with the same batter at the plate.</p><p><b>July 9</b></p><p>Prior to Elly De La Cruz, the last time an MLB player stole 2nd/3rd/home with the same batter at the plate was on July 14, 1915, when the A's allowed White Sox pitcher Red Faber to steal his way home uninhibited as a stall tactic with the game not yet official & a storm brewing. <i>[Is "uninhibited" supposed to be unimpeded?]</i></p><p>Tarik Skubal of the Tigers is the second pitcher in the modern era to throw 5+ strikeouts and allow zero runs in each of his first two starts of the season while also having his team lose both starts. He joins Derek Lowe, who did so in 2001 with the Red Sox.</p><p><b>July 14</b></p><p>Bo and Josh Naylor of the Guardians are the first pair of brothers in MLB history to hit multi-run homers for the same team in the same inning.</p><p>Over the last 2 games, Brewers pitchers have struck out 32 Reds batters [14-18] while allowing 0 runs. That's the most strikeouts without allowing a run by any MLB team over a 2-game span in the modern era.</p><p><b>July 15</b></p><p>The Brewers are the first team in MLB history to record 3 straight shutouts while striking out at least a dozen batters in each. [K: 14-18-12]</p><p>The Angels are the first MLB team to face a 6+ run deficit in the 7th inning or later, erase that deficit, then fall behind again by 3+ runs and yet still win the game since the Phillies did so against the Pirates on <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PHI/PHI193009160.shtml" target="_blank">September 16, 1930</a>.</p><p>Today marks the only time in the modern era that 4 different MLB pitchers struck out 10+ batters but had their team lose the game on the same day (Alec Marsh, Johan Oviedo, Spencer Strider, Framber Valdez).</p><p><b>July 17</b></p><p>Nick Pivetta of the Red Sox is the only MLB pitcher in the modern era (starter or reliever) to strike out at least 65% of the batters he faced in a game while allowing no hits (min. 20 batters faced).</p><p>The Guardians are the only MLB team in the live-ball era (since 1920) to go 9-up, 9-down without getting the ball out of the infield through 3 innings but then score a run in every inning after that.</p><p><b>July 18</b></p><p>Tyler Wells has allowed exactly two earned runs in each of his last seven starts. The last pitcher to allow the exact same amount of earned runs in 8 consecutive starts (min. 5.0 innings each start) was Cleveland's Jim Bagby with zero from June 16-July 16, 1917.</p><p><b>July 20</b></p><p>Since the beginning of the 2018 season, the Rays are 32-9 (.780) at home against the Orioles. That is the best home record for any club against a single divisional opponent over the last six seasons.</p></blockquote><p></p><p><b><span style="color: red;">Special Shohei Ohtani Edition</span></b></p><p><b></b></p><blockquote><p><b>July 3</b></p><p>Shohei Ohtani is the second MLB player to have 30+ home runs and 5+ triples prior to the All-Star break. The other player to do so was Willie Mays in 1954. <i>[JoS: The date on which each season begins is not the same; that affects how many games players can play before the ASG.]</i></p><p><b>July 8</b></p><p>Tonight marks the sixth time this season Shohei Ohtani has finished one hit shy of the cycle. That's tied for the most such games before the All-Star break in MLB history, along with Hall of Famers Duke Snider (1954), Willie Stargell (1975) and Rod Carew (1977). <i>[Ibid.]</i></p><p><b>July 17</b></p><p>Shohei Ohtani has hit as many HR in the 7th inning or later over his last 28 games (12) as any other MLB player has hit total during that time (since June 12). That's the most HR in the 7th inning or later over a span of 28 games in MLB history.</p><p><b>July 19</b></p><p>Shohei Ohtani has now scored at least one run in eight straight games (min. 1 PA), his third such streak of at least eight games this season. The only player with more eight-game streaks with at least a run scored in the same season in the Modern Era is Babe Ruth (4 in 1921).</p></blockquote><p></p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> by <span class='fn'>allan</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2023/07/in-play-runs-12-teams-scored-ten-or.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2023-07-20T13:40:00-07:00'>1:40 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/5730822/4891484239635173686' onclick=''>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/5730822/4891484239635173686' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-47734877'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5730822&postID=4891484239635173686&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/ohtani' rel='tag'>ohtani</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>June 18, 2023</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='3691278573777134774'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2023/06/another-unprecedented-feat-for-ohtani.html'>Another Unprecedented Feat For Ohtani:<br>Leading MLB In Home Runs (As A Batter) & Lowest Batting Average Allowed (As A Pitcher)</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>No player since 1900 has led or been tied for the major league lead in home runs (as a batter) and lowest batting average allowed (as a pitcher) at any point in the season. Until now. Shohei Ohtani has been atop those leaderboards for the past three days.</p><p>Ohtani reached 150 home runs and 75 stolen bases in the third-fewest games in history. ESPN's <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNStatsInfo/status/1670191720942714881" target="_blank">tweet </a>says Ohtani is 4th with 652 games, but in 15 of those games, he was never in the Angels' lineup because he was exclusively a pitcher (someone else was the DH). So he needed only 637 games, for third place.</p><pre><p></p><blockquote>Willie Mays 598<br />Jose Canseco 630<br />Shohei Ohtani 637<br />Alex Rodriguez 646</blockquote><p></p></pre><p>In 2022, Ohtani became the first player to finish in the Top 15 among MLB players in both home runs (as a batter) and strikeouts (as a pitcher) since the mound was moved to its current distance in 1893. This year, he's currently in the Top 4 in both categories (first in HR, 4th in K).</p><div>Ohtani leads the AL in home runs (MLB, actually) and has struck out more batters than all but one AL pitcher (3 MLB pitchers).</div><p>Ohtani leads MLB in hitting home runs (23), throwing wild pitches (11), and hitting opposing batters (9).</p><p>Ohtani also has the longest current hitting streak: 14 games. (Mookie Betts has an 11-game streak.)</p><p>Ohtani, in the past week: Two HR on Monday, and one HR on Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday. (Plus, he pitches.)</p><p>In his last 18 games for the Angels, Ohtani has 28 hits, 18 extra-base hits, 11 home runs, 15 walks, and three stolen bases. Only one other MLB player in the modern era has matched all of those numbers over an 18-game period: Lou Gehrig, Yankees, June 21-July 5, 1927.</p><p>Gehrig's streak was a bit more productive, with more hits (30-28), extra-base hits (19-18), runs scored (21-19), triples (2-1), RBI (30-23), total bases (73-69), and a higher batting average (.441-.412), on-base (.542-.512), slugging (1.074-1.015), and OPS (1.616-1.527). But Biscuit Pants did not pitch.</p><p>In each of his last six games, Ohtani has gotten an extra-base hit, drawn a walk, and scored a run. Only two other players in the modern era have done that in six or more consecutive games: Babe Ruth (7 games in 1921) and Barry Bonds (6 games in 1997).</p><div>Ohtani leads the Angels in: </div><div></div><blockquote><div>Games played<br />At-bats<br />Plate appearances</div><div>Hits<br />Runs scored<br />Triples<br /><div>Home runs</div><div>Total bases</div><div>Runs batted in<br />Batting average</div></div><div>On-base average</div><div>Slugging percentage</div><div>OPS<br />OPS+<br />Stolen bases</div><div>Intentional walks<br />Walks (<i>tied with Trout</i>)</div><div>Wins</div><div>ERA (starters)<br />WHIP (starters)<br />Lowest batting average allowed (starters)<br />Innings pitched<br />Strikeouts</div><div>Most strikeouts per 9 innings<br />Fewest walks per 9 innings</div></blockquote><div><b>Ohtani vs Texas, June 12-15</b></div><p></p><blockquote><p><b>Game 1</b><br />Walk<br />Game-Tying HR in 7th inning (459 ft)<br />Game-Winning HR in 12th inning (388 ft)</p><p><b>Game 2</b><br />Single<br />Double<br />3 Walks (1 BBI)</p><p><b>Game 3</b><br />Single<br />Walk<br />HR in 9th inning (453 ft)</p><p><b>Game 4</b><br />6 IP, 6 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 3 K<br />2 Walks<br />Game-Winning HR in 8th inning (443 ft)</p></blockquote><p></p><p>1,743 feet of home runs -- <i>all of them</i> to the opposite field!!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIKDnesE3G8N9glSIfHlB0B7-ANMEH2LIkXX00zBWDR35X-WgpQxdW9MT6re2hkRIl6sfn8Qoc9GaNJRoPcTejjk5KBmQTKtfm6RW-0AKwIz9ob1vK34ICtAeHPtPMcRr74Ln8fnYlqjxpQX0jDOtKUsW37ypRYuzEv1oPL4_WiO4zvE-gyFw/s880/Screenshot%202023-06-18%20155407.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="876" data-original-width="880" height="638" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIKDnesE3G8N9glSIfHlB0B7-ANMEH2LIkXX00zBWDR35X-WgpQxdW9MT6re2hkRIl6sfn8Qoc9GaNJRoPcTejjk5KBmQTKtfm6RW-0AKwIz9ob1vK34ICtAeHPtPMcRr74Ln8fnYlqjxpQX0jDOtKUsW37ypRYuzEv1oPL4_WiO4zvE-gyFw/w640-h638/Screenshot%202023-06-18%20155407.png" width="640" /></a></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> by <span class='fn'>allan</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2023/06/another-unprecedented-feat-for-ohtani.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2023-06-18T16:08:00-07:00'>4:08 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/5730822/3691278573777134774' onclick=''>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/5730822/3691278573777134774' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-47734877'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5730822&postID=3691278573777134774&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/ohtani' rel='tag'>ohtani</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>May 10, 2023</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='3834021222100532839'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2023/05/ruth-ohtani-only-players-with-100-hr-as.html'>Ruth & Ohtani: Only Players With 100+ HR As Batter, 500+ Strikeouts As Pitcher<br>Plus: A Digression On Official RBI Stats</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo9vxxU8qtQ2OrmP9YSnS0QqKmCwzh189YfFoRwWN5Q3dE1jimzsUxxbSbPJf74aZEsbcaNLZ30zSVgHInSUFFU_gENXZrWOT-2Wu272iuE2j0WlRjFgFmVmmE6kaxldGHQsVGkIwZMoMQRnDKE76v9Na6VRHB97C5AFluchJ-EOIGFJ6YP0w/s1088/Ohtani-Babe.PNG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="1088" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo9vxxU8qtQ2OrmP9YSnS0QqKmCwzh189YfFoRwWN5Q3dE1jimzsUxxbSbPJf74aZEsbcaNLZ30zSVgHInSUFFU_gENXZrWOT-2Wu272iuE2j0WlRjFgFmVmmE6kaxldGHQsVGkIwZMoMQRnDKE76v9Na6VRHB97C5AFluchJ-EOIGFJ6YP0w/s600/Ohtani-Babe.PNG" width="600" /></a></div> <b>NL/AL Players With 100+ HR As A Batter & 500+ Strikeouts As A Pitcher</b><br /><pre> <b>HR K</b> Babe Ruth: 1914-35   714   501<br />Shohei Ohtani: 2018-23   135  507 <i>(as of May 10, 2023)</i></pre><p>This means that Ohtani <a href="https://twitter.com/LAAngelsPR/status/1656116779071180800" target="_blank">broke Ruth's record</a> for most strikeouts by a player with 100+ home runs.</p><p>When I went to Baseball Reference to find how many strikeouts Ruth the Pitcher had, the number was 488. However, this MLB.com <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/shohei-ohtani-joins-babe-ruth-in-500-strikeout-100-home-run-club" target="_blank">article</a> states Ruth is credited with 501 strikeouts as a pitcher, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, MLB's official statistician.</p><p></p><blockquote>Ruth's totals on certain stat sites show 488 career strikeouts, but that does not match up when adding up the totals from his game logs. There are a number of discrepancies in terms of record-keeping from baseball's early years, and Elias's tally is considered the official number.</blockquote><p></p><p>Discrepancies do still exist, even with all of the research done over more than fifty years since <i>The Baseball Encyclopedia</i> made its grand entrance back in 1969.</p><p>I found one of those discrepancies back in January. I was looking at <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/seweljo01.shtml" target="_blank">Joe Sewell</a>'s page. He struck out  only three times in 576 plate appearances in 1932! That was not an anomoly. In 1925, Sewell struck out four times in 699 plate apeparances, but if you scroll through his game logs for that season, you will count five strikeouts.</p><p>Assuming an error or an incomplete update, I submitted a report through the website noting the difference. I received this reply:</p><p></p><blockquote><p>There are known discrepancies between the game logs produced recently and the season totals produced historically. Retrosheet keeps a list of such discrepancies on their site - Joe Sewell's can be found here:</p><p>https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/S/PDsewej101.htm</p><p>As researcher time permits, efforts will be made to reconcile these two differences and deduce the correct season and/or game total. For further reading, please see:</p><p>http://www.retrosheet.org/DiscrepanciesWithOfficialData.pdf</p></blockquote><p></p><p>Elias does amazing work, but I do have one big issue. Because Runs Batted In was not considered an official statistic before 1920, Elias does not include pre-1920 RBIs in its player stats. However, they do include all of the other stats from any applicable years. </p><p>Back in April 2019 ("<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT7zG6SeapI&ab_channel=DavidBowie-Topic" target="_blank">my, my, the time do fly</a>"), I started a post with the title: "<b>Q: How Can You Hit 49 Home Runs And Have 0 RBI?</b>" I never went back and finished it. It's not unusual. I have dozens of draft posts. This is the text:</p><p></p><blockquote><p>A: When your name is Babe Ruth and you hit the home runs before 1920.</p><p>The Elias Sports Bureau, which is the official statistician for Major League Baseball, credits Babe Ruth with hitting 49 home runs prior to 1920, but does not give him credit for any RBI because runs batted in were not recognized as an official statistic until 1920.<br /> <br /> An Elias official was quoted a few years ago as saying Ruth "didn't lose [the RBI]. He never had them." <br /> <br />But Ruth does have the home runs - and the runs scored - in his career totals. And, of course, he did drive in runs before RBI was an official stat: 224, according to most accounts.<br /> <br /> During his major league career, which began in 1914, Ruth drove in <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/ruthba01.shtml">2,214 runs</a>. However, Elias states Ruth drove in 1,994 runs, because it insists he had zero RBI in his first six seasons (before 1920).<br /> <br /> This confusion came up again last night when Albert Pujols hit a two-run homer in the first inning against the Royals, giving him 1,995 career RBI, which <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/albert-pujols-passes-lou-gehrig-on-all-time-rbi-list">this MLB.com story</a> says put him past Lou Gehrig into 4th place all-time.</p><p>* * *<br /><br /> Interestingly, some non-Ruth players, including superstars like Ty Cobb, <i>are</i> credited with pre-1920 RBIs by Elias.<br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p>Cobb has 1,961 career RBI, according to tycobb.org, which says the stats have been "provided courtesy of Elias Sports Bureau". And in this case, the Elias' RBI number is <i>higher</i> than BRef, which has 1,944.</p></blockquote><p>Again, discrepancies exist.</p><p>What all this means is that from 1914-19, Babe Ruth hit 181 singles, 82 doubles, 30 triples, and 49 home runs and drove in <i>no runs</i>. This is according to MLB's official statistician.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7BVNf6TWlqz0r4jxxes1-hJ4BWIpaHHDE6zTD2Pny8Z-lT4UPZqaAytyQwPpRb3y-CTF_kyEGsXtzoHkGNsZb-_WOhnrqhXddANbcu9ARkIj1ZMOFXrIQOnyY7yS8Y4TV3lAM/s1600/red-sock.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7BVNf6TWlqz0r4jxxes1-hJ4BWIpaHHDE6zTD2Pny8Z-lT4UPZqaAytyQwPpRb3y-CTF_kyEGsXtzoHkGNsZb-_WOhnrqhXddANbcu9ARkIj1ZMOFXrIQOnyY7yS8Y4TV3lAM/s200/red-sock.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p>From Twitter, May 9, 2023:</p><p>Shohei Ohtani this season:<br />141 OPS+, better than Ichiro Suzuki's best season<br />181 ERA+, better than Max Scherzer's best season</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">The thing that blows my mind the most about Ohtani is that not only is he maybe the best pitcher in baseball and can hit a ball 450 with ease, but he’s also legitimately one of the fastest players in all of baseball. It just makes no sense.<br /> <a href="https://t.co/raLNUsBmz6">pic.twitter.com/raLNUsBmz6</a></p>— MLB Metrics (@MLBMetrics) <a href="https://twitter.com/MLBMetrics/status/1650332775600324609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Neither Babe nor Ohtani and from a little while ago, but . . . <i>what the hell? </i><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">He did it again lol you cannot make this up<br /><br />6 home runs in his last 12 at bats.<a href="https://t.co/UyCx0v8kDC">pic.twitter.com/UyCx0v8kDC</a></p>— MLB Metrics (@MLBMetrics) <a href="https://twitter.com/MLBMetrics/status/1647669166764093441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> by <span class='fn'>allan</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2023/05/ruth-ohtani-only-players-with-100-hr-as.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2023-05-10T23:36:00-07:00'>11:36 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/5730822/3834021222100532839' onclick=''>2 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/5730822/3834021222100532839' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-47734877'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5730822&postID=3834021222100532839&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/ohtani' rel='tag'>ohtani</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>September 30, 2022</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='3358794715339285344'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2022/09/dodgers-have-104-wins-in-4-of-last-5.html'>Dodgers Have 104+ Wins In 4 Of Last 5 Full Seasons;<br>Marlins Pitcher Called For 3 Balks During One Plate Appearance</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> The Los Angeles Dodgers have been extraordinarily good for at least the last six seasons. <pre>2017: 104-58 - Tied (with 1942) for second-most wins in a season (105-49 in 1953); won NL pennant<br />2018: 92-71 - Won NL pennant<br />2019: 106-56 - Set new franchise record for most wins<br />2020: 43-17 - Set new franchise record for highest winning percentage (.717); previous record: .682 (1899, 1953);<br /> finished first in NL West for eighth consecutive season; won World Series<br />2021: 106-56 - Tied franchise record for most wins<br />2022: 108-48 - Set new franchise record for wins; second highest winning percentage in franchise history;<br /> finished first in NL West for 9th time in last 10 seasons; <b>six games remaining</b></pre> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7BVNf6TWlqz0r4jxxes1-hJ4BWIpaHHDE6zTD2Pny8Z-lT4UPZqaAytyQwPpRb3y-CTF_kyEGsXtzoHkGNsZb-_WOhnrqhXddANbcu9ARkIj1ZMOFXrIQOnyY7yS8Y4TV3lAM/s1600/red-sock.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7BVNf6TWlqz0r4jxxes1-hJ4BWIpaHHDE6zTD2Pny8Z-lT4UPZqaAytyQwPpRb3y-CTF_kyEGsXtzoHkGNsZb-_WOhnrqhXddANbcu9ARkIj1ZMOFXrIQOnyY7yS8Y4TV3lAM/s200/red-sock.jpg" /></a></div><br /> Shohei Ohtani came <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/shohei-ohtani-takes-no-hitter-into-eighth-vs-athletics" target="_blank">within four outs</a> of a no-hitter <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ANA/ANA202209290.shtml" target="_blank">last night</a> against the Athletics. Ohtani (8-2-0-1-10, 108) walked the first man he faced before retiring the next 22 batters. Ohtani gave up a pair of two-out singles in the eighth inning. He also went 2-for-4, extending his career-high hitting streak to 14 games.<br /><br /> In Ohtani's previous start, he struck out his <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/shohei-ohtani-s-200th-strikeout-of-2022-makes-history" target="_blank">200th batter</a> of the season (he's at 213 now), which means he holds the record for most home runs by a pitcher with a 200-K season. He's got 34 dongs, which shatters the previous record of seven, set by Don Drysdale in 1965 and Earl Wilson in 1966.<br /><br /> Ohtani has pitched 161 innings this season. If he pitches one full inning next Wednesday in the final game of the regular season, he will become the first player ever to achieve both qualifying marks as a hitter (3.1 PA per team game (502 PA)) and a pitcher (1 inning per team game (162 IP)).<br /><br />Right now, Ohtani is first in the AL in K/9 (11.9), tied for 3rd in strikeouts (213) and wins (15), and 4th in ERA (2.35).<br /><div><br /></div><div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7BVNf6TWlqz0r4jxxes1-hJ4BWIpaHHDE6zTD2Pny8Z-lT4UPZqaAytyQwPpRb3y-CTF_kyEGsXtzoHkGNsZb-_WOhnrqhXddANbcu9ARkIj1ZMOFXrIQOnyY7yS8Y4TV3lAM/s1600/red-sock.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7BVNf6TWlqz0r4jxxes1-hJ4BWIpaHHDE6zTD2Pny8Z-lT4UPZqaAytyQwPpRb3y-CTF_kyEGsXtzoHkGNsZb-_WOhnrqhXddANbcu9ARkIj1ZMOFXrIQOnyY7yS8Y4TV3lAM/s200/red-sock.jpg" /></a></div><br /> On September 27, Aaron Judge (sitting on 60 home runs) walked four times against the Blue Jays; those were the Yankees' only walks in the game. <a href="https://twitter.com/jaysonst/status/1575122920707334144" target="_blank">The last time</a> any Yankee walked four or more times and his teammates combined for zero walks was <a href="https://twitter.com/jaysonst/status/1575122920707334144" target="_blank">August 13, 1958</a>, Mickey Mantle walked four times, no other Yankees walked. Looking at the box score, no Senators walked either, so Mantle was the only guy to draw a walk in the game -- and he had <i>four</i>!<br /><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7BVNf6TWlqz0r4jxxes1-hJ4BWIpaHHDE6zTD2Pny8Z-lT4UPZqaAytyQwPpRb3y-CTF_kyEGsXtzoHkGNsZb-_WOhnrqhXddANbcu9ARkIj1ZMOFXrIQOnyY7yS8Y4TV3lAM/s1600/red-sock.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7BVNf6TWlqz0r4jxxes1-hJ4BWIpaHHDE6zTD2Pny8Z-lT4UPZqaAytyQwPpRb3y-CTF_kyEGsXtzoHkGNsZb-_WOhnrqhXddANbcu9ARkIj1ZMOFXrIQOnyY7yS8Y4TV3lAM/s200/red-sock.jpg" /></a></div><br /> Marlins pitcher Richard Bleier was called for <a href="https://www.mlb.com/marlins/news/marlins-richard-bleier-called-for-three-balks" target="_blank">three balks while facing one batter</a> two days ago (September 28). Amazingly, they were the first balks of his seven-year career!</div><div><br /></div><div><b>MLB Batters Faced & Balks By Bleier</b></div><div><pre>#1-1,225: 0 balks<br />#1,226:  3 balks</pre>Bleier took the mound for the bottom of the eighth inning, with his team up 6-3, and retired the first two Mets. Pete Alonso stepped in. Bleier was called for a balk by first base umpire John Tumpane as he threw ball one. McNeil went to second. Bleier threw ball two. Bleier was called for another balk by Tumpane as he threw a called strike. McNeil went to third. Bleier threw ball three. Bleier was called for a third balk by Tumpane as he threw called strike two. McNeil scored. Marlins manager Don Mattingly was ejected by plate umpire Ryan Blakney. Bleier got Alonso to ground out on his next pitch. On his way to the dugout, he was ejected by Blakney. The Marlins won <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN202209270.shtml" target="_blank">6-4</a>.</div><div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Richard Bleier gets called on a balk three times in a single at-bat.<br /><br />(via r/baseball) <a href="https://t.co/i8KbygXaBA">pic.twitter.com/i8KbygXaBA</a></p>— Baseball GIFs (@gifs_baseball) <a href="https://twitter.com/gifs_baseball/status/1574945891991298048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>While Bleier is not resting his hands and glove at his waist, he's also not moving his hands in a continuous fluid motion. His coming to a set is borderline, but if umpires called balks on all borderline sets, there would be 20 balks a game. One thing is very clear: Bleier was making no attempt to deceive the baserunner. Anyhoo, Bleier is the seventh pitcher to have three balks in one inning, but the first to do it with the same batter at the plate.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://twitter.com/SlangsOnSports/status/1574987423368548353" target="_blank">3 Balks In One Inning</a></b><br /><pre>Charlie Sweeney April 30, 1885 1st inning<br />Milt Shoffner May 12, 1930 3rd inning<br />Jim Owens April 24, 1963 2nd inning<br />Bob Shaw May 4, 1963 3rd inning<br />Don Heinkel May 3, 1988 6th inning<br />Jim Gott August 6, 1988 8th inning<br />Richard Bleier September 28, 2022 8th inning</pre>After 1930: Nothing for 33 years . . . twice in 11 days in 1963 . . . nothing for 25 years . . . twice in 1988 . . . nothing for 34 years. . . . Will someone else balk three times in the next six days?<br /> </div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> by <span class='fn'>allan</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2022/09/dodgers-have-104-wins-in-4-of-last-5.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2022-09-30T14:08:00-07:00'>2:08 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/5730822/3358794715339285344' onclick=''>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/5730822/3358794715339285344' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-47734877'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5730822&postID=3358794715339285344&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/ohtani' rel='tag'>ohtani</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>September 6, 2022</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='2351992860693091655'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2022/09/recent-factoids-starring-mookie-betts.html'>Recent Factoids, Starring Mookie Betts, Shohei Ohtani, And Spencer Steer</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> Mookie Betts of the Dodgers is the <a href="https://twitter.com/StatsBySTATS/status/1563386431808372738">only MLB player</a> in the modern era to have three separate game-tying or go-ahead extra-base hits in the seventh inning or later of a victory. On Friday, August 26, 2022, against the Marlins, Betts hit: <blockquote>a two-run homer with no outs in the top of the 7th, wiping out Miami's 2-1 lead and giving the Dodgers a 3-2 lead<br /><br /> a solo homer with one out in the top of the 9th, wiping out Miami's 4-3 lead and tying the game at 4-4<br /><br /> an RBI-double with one out in the top of the 10th, snapping a 5-5 tie and giving the Dodgers a 6-5 lead</blockquote> The Dodgers won <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIA/MIA202208260.shtml">10-6 in 10 innings</a>.<br /><br /> <b>Other Recent Factoids<br /></b>(from <a href="https://twitter.com/StatsBySTATS/">@StatsBySTATS</a>):<br /><br /><div>Shohei Ohtani in 2022<br />6 games with two or more home runs (<a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=ohtansh01&t=b&year=2022" target="_blank">batting</a>)</div><div>9 games with ten or more strikeouts (<a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=ohtansh01&t=p&year=2022" target="_blank">pitching</a>)<br />No other player in MLB history has had at least six of each <i>over his entire career</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>In their MLB debuts on Monday, September 5:</div><div>Ryne Nelson, Diamondbacks: 7.0 IP, 0 R, 7 K (<a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SDN/SDN202209050.shtml" target="_blank">7-4-0-0-7, 87</a>)<br />Hunter Brown, Astros: 6.0 IP, 0 R, 5 K (<a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/HOU/HOU202209050.shtml" target="_blank">6-3-0-1-5, 79</a>)<br />This is the first time in the modern era that two pitchers each had a scoreless outing with 5+ strikeouts in their MLB debut on the same day.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Bo Bichette of the Blue Jays is the first American League shortstop to have 6+ hits and 3+ HR on a single day (Toronto <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BAL/BAL202209051.shtml" target="_blank">played a</a> <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BAL/BAL202209052.shtml" target="_blank">doubleheader</a>.)</div></div><div><br /></div><div> Zac Gallen of the Diamondbacks is the fourth pitcher in the modern era (and the first non-Dodgers pitcher) to pitch 6.0+ scoreless innings in six consecutive starts, joining Don Drysdale (1968 Dodgers), Orel Hershiser (1988 Dodgers) and Zack Greinke (2015 Dodgers).<br /><br /> Dylan Cease of the White Sox is the first MLB pitcher to have four games in a season where he threw 6.0+ shutout innings while allowing no more than one hit since Pete Alexander did it for the Phillies in 1915.<br /><br /> On Friday, September 2, the Dodgers lost to the Padres 7-1, snapping their streak of 228 consecutive regular-season games without losing by more than five runs. That streak is 80 games longer than any other such streak in MLB history (next longest: 148 by Pirates from 1979-80).<br /><br />Also on September 2, Spencer Steer of the Reds went 2-for-2 with a home run, a double and two walks in his MLB debut tonight for <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CIN/CIN202209020.shtml" target="_blank">an OPS of 4.000</a> -- the highest OPS by any player in his MLB debut in the modern era (minimum 3 PA). (Steer is also on the All-Cattle Team.)<br /><br /> On Wednesday, August 31, the Cardinals beat the Reds <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CIN/CIN202208310.shtml" target="_blank">5-3 in 13 innings</a> despite going 0-for-17 with RATS. They are the second MLB team in the last 45 seasons to win a game in which they had no hits in 17+ AB w/RATS. The first: The 2004 Red Sox, on April 24 against the Yankees (0-for-19 in a <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA200404240.shtml" target="_blank">3-2 win in 12 innings</a>).<br /><br /> Mariners rookie pitcher George Kirby has not allowed more than one walk in any of his 18 starts while pitching 4.0+ innings in all of them.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ARI/ARI202208290.shtml" target="_blank">August 29, 2022</a><div><br /><b>First 3.5 Innings </b><pre>Phillies: 7 R, 11 H Diamondbacks: 0 R, 0 H</pre><b>Remaining 5.0 Innings</b><pre>Phillies: 0 R, 0 H Diamondbacks: 13 R, 10 H</pre>This is <i>the only MLB game in the last 100 seasons</i> where both teams had at least seven runs and ten hits and all of one team's runs and hits came after all of the other team's.<br /><pre>Phillies - 211 300 000 - 7 11 1 Diamondbacks - 000 660 01x - 13 10 1</pre></div></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> by <span class='fn'>allan</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2022/09/recent-factoids-starring-mookie-betts.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2022-09-06T17:02:00-07:00'>5:02 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/5730822/2351992860693091655' onclick=''>1 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/5730822/2351992860693091655' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-47734877'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5730822&postID=2351992860693091655&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/2004%21%20Fuckin%27%20A%21' rel='tag'>2004! Fuckin' A!</a>, <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/linescores' rel='tag'>linescores</a>, <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/ohtani' rel='tag'>ohtani</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>August 5, 2022</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='1760888995582276365'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2022/08/angels-score-7-runs-on-7-home-runs-in-7.html'>Angels Score 7 Runs On 7 Home Runs In 7 Different Innings</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <b>Update/Fuller Explanation Below!<br /></b> <pre>Athletics - 006 200 000 - 8 8 0 <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ANA/ANA202208040.shtml" target="_blank">Angels</a> - 111 101 101 - 7 9 0</pre>The Angels are the <a href="https://twitter.com/dakern74/status/1555340442429947904" target="_blank">first team</a> in major league history to score seven runs in a game on seven solo homers.<div><br /></div><div>The Angels had nine hits on Thursday night: one single, one double, and seven home runs.<br /><div><br /></div><div>I do not believe a team has ever scored eight runs in a game with no more than one run in an inning. (I believe seven has been done before.)<br /><br /> The <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/angels-set-record-by-scoring-all-7-runs-on-solo-homers" target="_blank">previous high</a> was six runs on six solo shots, accomplished by the the Athletics on <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/OAK/OAK199108030.shtml" target="_blank">August 3, 1991</a> against the Twins and the Blue Jays on <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ARI/ARI201005210.shtml" target="_blank">May 21, 2010</a> against the Diamondbacks. Both homer-happy teams lost by an 8-6 score.<br /><br />The Angels are also the <a href="https://stathead.com/tiny/IGwAR" target="_blank">sixth team</a> to hit seven homers in a game and lose. It's now happened in each of the last three seasons. (Teams that have hit seven home runs in a game are now <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/sports/baseball/ohtani-angels-home-runs.html" target="_blank">79-6</a>.)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>UPDATE/FULLER EXPLANATION</b>: Teams that hit <i>exactly</i> seven home runs in a game are 79-6. Teams that have hit seven <i>or more</i> homers are <a href="https://stathead.com/tiny/AnnXE" target="_blank">110-6</a> and teams that have hit eight or more home runs are 31-0. (Of those 31 teams, 29 hit eight home runs, one hit nine, and one hit ten.)<div><br />The Amazing Shohei Ohtani hit two of the seven dongs. </div><div><br /></div><div>* * *</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/PassonJim/status/1554697514548310016" target="_blank">"10,669 players</a> made their major league debut before Vin Scully started broadcasting Dodgers games.<br />10,641 more players made their major league debut before Vin Scully retired from broadcasting Dodgers games."</div><div><br /></div></div></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> by <span class='fn'>allan</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2022/08/angels-score-7-runs-on-7-home-runs-in-7.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2022-08-05T01:19:00-07:00'>1:19 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/5730822/1760888995582276365' onclick=''>2 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/5730822/1760888995582276365' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-47734877'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5730822&postID=1760888995582276365&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/linescores' rel='tag'>linescores</a>, <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/ohtani' rel='tag'>ohtani</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>July 29, 2022</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='6254308173176331589'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2022/07/its-odd-stats-time-featuring-ohtani-28.html'>It's Odd Stats Time!<br>Featuring: Ohtani, 28-5, And A POOP Game</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLrwU621ZXDWY8QNXS3mUqynWKgtZoLUFtdqbU0uq0XY3w8isRyitN4uf1Fh-7DBzXFImTCYhdxH6RVt29bozN7z25I_bOnbPhU-odY2Yn6IuNxYSWpXe2FGqpoYL5MGdmLeUOnyMK9dm9h7ACsWX8nZVQf94jUI_M7B3cTytfkidvYAtFsNA/s1570/2022-07-28-anaheim-scoreboard.PNG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="877" data-original-width="1570" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLrwU621ZXDWY8QNXS3mUqynWKgtZoLUFtdqbU0uq0XY3w8isRyitN4uf1Fh-7DBzXFImTCYhdxH6RVt29bozN7z25I_bOnbPhU-odY2Yn6IuNxYSWpXe2FGqpoYL5MGdmLeUOnyMK9dm9h7ACsWX8nZVQf94jUI_M7B3cTytfkidvYAtFsNA/w654-h365/2022-07-28-anaheim-scoreboard.PNG" width="654" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="https://twitter.com/SlangsOnSports/status/1552844557708136448" target="_blank">Angels scoreboard</a>, July 28, 2022</i></span><div><br /></div><div><b>Red Sox Players With HR, 2 BB, 2 SB In <a href="https://twitter.com/dakern74/status/1552837230401654790">Same Game</a></b><br /><br /> Larry Gardner, <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS191107292.shtml" target="_blank">July 29, 1911 (G2)</a> vs Browns (L 4-5 (10))<br /> John Valentin, <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/TOR/TOR199506130.shtml" target="_blank">June 13, 1995</a> at Blue Jays (W 11-7)<br /> Julio Lugo, <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA200704270.shtml" target="_blank">April 27, 2007</a> at Yankees (W 11-4)<br /> Xander Bogaerts, <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS202207280.shtml" target="_blank">July 28, 2022</a> vs Guardians (W 4-2)<br /><br />In the first game of that 1911 doubleheader, Smoky Joe Wood pitched a no-hitter (9-0-0-2-12). Also, Gardner tripled, singled, stole a base, scored a run, and knocked in a run. Boston won 5-0.<br /><br /><div>Garrett Whitlock recorded a pair of two-inning saves in the just-completed series against the Guardians (<a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS202207250.shtml" target="_blank">July 25</a> and <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS202207280.shtml" target="_blank">28</a>, 2022). He's the <a href="https://twitter.com/dakern74/status/1552837255605141511">first</a> Red Sox pitcher to do that since Greg Harris (<a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS199309130.shtml" target="_blank">September 13</a> and <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS199309150.shtml" target="_blank">15</a>, 1993, against the Orioles; Harris went 2.2 innings on the 13th).</div><div><br /></div><div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7BVNf6TWlqz0r4jxxes1-hJ4BWIpaHHDE6zTD2Pny8Z-lT4UPZqaAytyQwPpRb3y-CTF_kyEGsXtzoHkGNsZb-_WOhnrqhXddANbcu9ARkIj1ZMOFXrIQOnyY7yS8Y4TV3lAM/s1600/red-sock.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7BVNf6TWlqz0r4jxxes1-hJ4BWIpaHHDE6zTD2Pny8Z-lT4UPZqaAytyQwPpRb3y-CTF_kyEGsXtzoHkGNsZb-_WOhnrqhXddANbcu9ARkIj1ZMOFXrIQOnyY7yS8Y4TV3lAM/s200/red-sock.jpg" /></a></div> </div><div><div><br /></div><div>Shohei Ohtani <a href="https://twitter.com/SlangsOnSports/status/1552844557708136448">leads</a> all major league pitchers this season with nine games of 10+ strikeouts. (All other Angels pitchers combined have one game with 10+ K in 2022.)</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Shohei Ohtani has struck out 11+ strikeouts seven times, the first pitcher in 20 years to do that in his team's first 99 games.</div><div><br /></div></div><div><div>Ohtani has struck out 10+ in each of his last six starts. The only pitchers in history with <a href="https://stathead.com/tiny/eRWQJ" target="_blank">longer streaks</a>?</div><div>Gerrit Cole (nine games), Chris Sale (eight games (twice)), Pedro Martinez (eight games, seven games), Justin Verlander (seven games), Randy Johnson (seven games), and Nolan Ryan (seven games).</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Ohtani currently leads all pitchers in <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2022-pitching-leaders.shtml" target="_blank">K/9</a> (13.1) and all batters in <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2022-batting-leaders.shtml" target="_blank">intentional walks</a> (nine).</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Different eras and all that . . . but still  . . . Through his first 50 career starts as a pitcher and 500 games as a hitter, <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSSports/status/1551680187565330432" target="_blank">Shohei Ohtani has</a>: </div><div><br /></div><div>-More strikeouts than Jacob deGrom<br />-Lower ERA than Gerrit Cole<br />-More home runs than Ted Williams<br />-More RBI than Ken Griffey Jr.</div></div></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7BVNf6TWlqz0r4jxxes1-hJ4BWIpaHHDE6zTD2Pny8Z-lT4UPZqaAytyQwPpRb3y-CTF_kyEGsXtzoHkGNsZb-_WOhnrqhXddANbcu9ARkIj1ZMOFXrIQOnyY7yS8Y4TV3lAM/s1600/red-sock.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7BVNf6TWlqz0r4jxxes1-hJ4BWIpaHHDE6zTD2Pny8Z-lT4UPZqaAytyQwPpRb3y-CTF_kyEGsXtzoHkGNsZb-_WOhnrqhXddANbcu9ARkIj1ZMOFXrIQOnyY7yS8Y4TV3lAM/s200/red-sock.jpg" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Jayson Stark unloaded <a href="https://theathletic.com/3459174/2022/07/29/blue-jays-28-red-sox-5-records/" target="_blank">a bushel full of factoids</a> about the Blue Jays' 28-5 win at Fenway last Friday. I'll try to sum them up.</div><div><br /></div><div>Lourdes Gurriel Jr. was only the second opposing player to get six hits (or more) in a nine-inning game against the Red Sox in the last 60 years. (I checked Stathead and <a href="https://stathead.com/tiny/W1Qlq" target="_blank">learned</a> that other guy was C.J. Cron, on July 2, 2016. Before that, it was Floyd Robinson of the White Sox, on July 22, 1962.) Only five players have ever had six hits in a nine-inning game at Fenway; none of them have played for the Red Sox.</div><div><br /></div><div>From the opening of Fenway in 1912 until two months ago, the Red Sox had never allowed a home run cycle [grand slam, three-run homer, two-run homer, solo homer] to an opposing team. But they've allowed two of them this season — May 17 and July 22.</div><div><br /></div><div>Kevin Gausman became only the fourth starting pitcher in the last 74 seasons years to pitch with a 22+-run lead. The others are:</div><div><div></div><blockquote><div>Chuck Stobbs, Red Sox, June 8, 1950. Pitched a complete game (Stark: "because 1950") against the Browns, led 29-3 in the ninth.</div><div><br /></div><div>John Candelaria, Pirates, September 16, 1975. Up 22-0 in the seventh at Wrigley Field.</div><div><br /></div><div>Dave Frost, Angels, August 25, 1979. Complete game against Oakland, 24-2.</div></blockquote><div></div><div>No starting pitcher had ever been up by 22 runs <i>as early as the fifth inning</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Toronto became the first team to score 11 runs in an inning after its first two batters had been retired. </div><div><br /></div><div>Gurriel had a run-scoring single and a two-run double in that 11-run fifth inning. He's the third player in the last 60 years to have two two-out, run-scoring hits in the same inning.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Six Blue Jays scored at least three runs, but none of them batted in the lineup's top three spots. That had never happened before in major league history.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>In addition to his inside-the-park grand slam, Tapia hit a bases-loaded triple against the Red Sox the next day. He's the first player to have two such hits in the same series. In fact, in the last 79 years, only two other players have done it <i>in the same season</i>. Overall, it's been done in the same season a total of 11 times, including by two players within a two-week span: Whispering Bill Barrett (13 days apart, 1926 White Sox) and Aaron Altherr (nine days, 2015 Phillies).</div><div><br /></div><div>The Blue Jays had not scored 28 runs in any of their previous 29 <i>series</i> before rolling into Fenway and racking up 28 runs in one game.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Red Sox bullpen gave up 19 runs. The Red Sox bullpen allowed 21 runs in the entire 2018 postseason (14 games).</div><div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Even the scoreboard operators at Fenway are committing errors <br /><br />(The game ended 28-5) <a href="https://t.co/xRhymq7O9U">https://t.co/xRhymq7O9U</a></p>— MLB Errors (@mlberrors) <a href="https://twitter.com/mlberrors/status/1550677806413225996?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7BVNf6TWlqz0r4jxxes1-hJ4BWIpaHHDE6zTD2Pny8Z-lT4UPZqaAytyQwPpRb3y-CTF_kyEGsXtzoHkGNsZb-_WOhnrqhXddANbcu9ARkIj1ZMOFXrIQOnyY7yS8Y4TV3lAM/s1600/red-sock.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7BVNf6TWlqz0r4jxxes1-hJ4BWIpaHHDE6zTD2Pny8Z-lT4UPZqaAytyQwPpRb3y-CTF_kyEGsXtzoHkGNsZb-_WOhnrqhXddANbcu9ARkIj1ZMOFXrIQOnyY7yS8Y4TV3lAM/s200/red-sock.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJOesF85d_OlB0C5YfM6s6fPISllFV0CQq9aZpE-xhCDzFq8wfKiqzZHikxpAKNOSAv3_-_VGKVi7Ip9zZpznNgG7X7RoOL6wgBriv4FLpkkNKa4ZCLG8GR4dgzR4cI675NPj-BRi2sE9oNjB5QnnHBMH65ql-EnQroMC7VP6x5BsSUA3wrE/s648/poop-game.PNG" style="clear: left; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="228" data-original-width="648" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJOesF85d_OlB0C5YfM6s6fPISllFV0CQq9aZpE-xhCDzFq8wfKiqzZHikxpAKNOSAv3_-_VGKVi7Ip9zZpznNgG7X7RoOL6wgBriv4FLpkkNKa4ZCLG8GR4dgzR4cI675NPj-BRi2sE9oNjB5QnnHBMH65ql-EnQroMC7VP6x5BsSUA3wrE/s600/poop-game.PNG" width="600" /></a></div></div></div></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> by <span class='fn'>allan</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2022/07/its-odd-stats-time-featuring-ohtani-28.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2022-07-29T16:20:00-07:00'>4:20 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/5730822/6254308173176331589' onclick=''>2 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/5730822/6254308173176331589' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-47734877'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5730822&postID=6254308173176331589&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/ohtani' rel='tag'>ohtani</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>July 15, 2022</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='1346419143692099340'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2022/07/july-15-all-five-al-east-teams-over-500.html'>July 15: All Five AL East Teams Over .500</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> After being swept in four games by the Rays, the Red Sox got up and beat the Yankees 5-4 in 11 innings at YSIII on Friday. A wild pitch - with two outs and an 0-2 count on the batter - brought in the go-ahead run.<br /><br /> All five American League East teams began Friday with records over .500! That includes the Orioles, who have finished the last three full seasons with 115, 108, and 110 losses. If Baltimore had that record in the AL Central, they'd be only three games out!<div> <pre><blockquote>Yankees 62 27 Rays 49 40 Red Sox 47 43 Blue Jays 47 43 Orioles 45 44</blockquote></pre></div> It's the <a href="https://twitter.com/SlangsOnSports/status/1547420753636777985" target="_blank">third season</a> in the Wild Card Era (excluding 2020) that a division has had <i>all</i> of its teams above .500 on or after July 13: <pre>2005 NL East (multiple days) 2012 AL East (July 15)</pre> <b><a href="https://twitter.com/SlangsOnSports/status/1547434295974936576" target="_blank">Most games</a> with 10+ strikeouts AND 2+ RBI in single season</b> (since RBI official, 1920) <pre>1946 Hal Newhouser 3 1999 Kevin Millwood 3 2022 Shohei Ohtani 3</pre> <b><a href="https://twitter.com/SlangsOnSports/status/1547432296101330944" target="_blank">50+ strikeouts</a> and one or zero earned runs allowed in a five-outing span</b> (since ER official, 1913) <pre>1997 Randy Johnson 2012 R.A. 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Ohtani is the eighth player in Angels history to have eight RBIs in a game. It was also the most RBIs in a game by a Japanese-born player. His two dongs were hit 423 and 438 feet.<p><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ANA/ANA202206220.shtml" target="_blank">June 22, 2022</a>: Shohei Ohtani pitched eight scoreless innings and struck out a career-high 13 batters. After a pregame ceremony delayed the start of the game, Ohtani gave up back-to-back singles. Then he retired 16 batters in a row, including 10 by strikeout, before issuing a walk. Ohtani retired 23 of the last 24 batters he faced. In the seventh inning on a humid night, his fastball was still hitting 100 mph.</p><p>Only one other player in history has had a 10+-strikeout game as a pitcher and an 8+-RBI game as a hitter <i>in his entire career</i>. Atlanta's Tony Cloninger struck out 12 on <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL196604120.shtml" target="_blank">April 12, 1966</a> (Opening Day), but lost a complete game in 13 innings. On <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN196607030.shtml" target="_blank">July 3, 1966</a>, he knocked in nine runs (he also hit two grand slams) against the Giants. He pitched a complete game that day, too: 9-7-3-2-5.</p><p>Oh, there's more Ohtani:</p><p><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LAN202206150.shtml" target="_blank">June 15, 2022</a>: The Angels were only <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/shohei-ohtani-breaks-up-no-hit-bid-in-9th-inning" target="_blank">two outs away</a> from being no-hit for the first time since 1999, when Ohtani tripled down the right-field line off Tyler Anderson of the Dodgers.</p><p>June 25, 2022: Ohtani hit another home run on Saturday night, estimated at <a href="https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1540898338710724609" target="_blank">462 feet</a>. It was the hardest hit ball of his career, <a href="https://twitter.com/PSO_Sports/status/1540948090009620481" target="_blank">118 mph off the bat</a>! It was also the hardest hit home run <a href="https://twitter.com/SlangsOnSports/status/1540898365688479744" target="_blank"><i>by any Angels player</i></a> since 2015 (when Statcast was born).</p><div>Linescores:</div><p><b>June 23</b></p><p></p><pre><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CIN/CIN202206230.shtml" target="_blank">Dodgers</a> – 012 211 111 – 10 16  1 Reds    – 000 100 400 –  5 13  0 </pre><p></p><p><b>June 24</b> (<i>five</i> games with binary linescores: only 0s and 1s):</p><p></p><pre><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHA/CHA202206240.shtml" target="_blank">Orioles</a> – 110 100 010 – 4  5  0<br />White Sox – 010 000 000 – 1  1  0<p>Athletics – 000 100 000 – 1 6 0<br /><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/KCA/KCA202206240.shtml" target="_blank">Royals</a> – 001 011 00x – 3 8 0</p><p>Phillies – 000 000 000 – 0 5 1<br /><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SDN/SDN202206240.shtml" target="_blank">Padres</a> – 000 001 00x – 1 7 0</p><p><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/TEX/TEX202206240.shtml" target="_blank">Nationals</a> – 000 001 010 – 2 9 0<br />Texas – 000 001 000 – 1  8  0</p><p><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIN/MIN202206240.shtml" target="_blank">Rockies</a> – 000 001 000 – 1  5  1<br />Twins – 000 000 000 – 0 3 0</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"><b>June 25</b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"></p><pre><a href="https://www.mlb.com/gameday/astros-vs-yankees/2022/06/25/661271#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=661271" target="_blank">Astros</a> – 000 000 111 – 3  8  1 Yankees – 000 000 000 – 0  0  0 </pre><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6lwldTGUiMtiII-mbB9vEqkx4yW30Oy5JOZlW3v0Yw7h4svzY2KrlFjNaJrZv5WXIT7BHW2JcAL1pOyUW6KmVdhqdxTK7ZWPFC9hq8j572amKUx76gB1L2EN-Mo5tomrFJUCFyOjwmFl8LArUWIfef00Do5walEhiASDN_P9VMphGAMher9s/s488/2022-06-26-nyp.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="432" height="529" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6lwldTGUiMtiII-mbB9vEqkx4yW30Oy5JOZlW3v0Yw7h4svzY2KrlFjNaJrZv5WXIT7BHW2JcAL1pOyUW6KmVdhqdxTK7ZWPFC9hq8j572amKUx76gB1L2EN-Mo5tomrFJUCFyOjwmFl8LArUWIfef00Do5walEhiASDN_P9VMphGAMher9s/w468-h529/2022-06-26-nyp.png" width="468" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: normal;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></p></pre><p></p></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> by <span class='fn'>allan</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2022/06/ohtani-knocks-in-career-high-eight-runs.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2022-06-26T00:39:00-07:00'>12:39 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/5730822/7842950289188949549' onclick=''>1 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/5730822/7842950289188949549' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-47734877'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5730822&postID=7842950289188949549&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/linescores' rel='tag'>linescores</a>, <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/ohtani' rel='tag'>ohtani</a>, <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/schadenfreude' rel='tag'>schadenfreude</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>May 6, 2022</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='7755554107526286791'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2022/05/ohtani-dominates-red-sox-29-swings-and.html'>Ohtani Dominates Red Sox (29 Swings-And-Misses & 81 Strikes Out Of 99 Pitches)</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> Shohei Ohtani had quite a game at Fenway Park last night. He went 2-for-4, scored a run and knocked in a run. More importantly, he pitched seven shutout innings and struck out 11, with a career-high 29 swings and misses (also the most of any pitcher in a game this year). The Angels won easily 8-0.<br /><br />Ohtani was the first starting pitcher to bat in one of the top four lineup spots at Fenway since Babe Ruth batted fourth against the White Sox on <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS191909201.shtml" target="_blank">September 20, 1919</a>. Ruth pitched 5.1 innings and finished the game in left field. (That was the last time Ruth pitched for the Red Sox; he would play only five more games in a Boston uniform.)<br /><br />Ohtani threw a season-high 99 pitches, including 81 strikes. He did not walk anyone. He had a three-ball count only once -- to the 28th and final batter of his start. He threw either no balls or one ball to 24 of his 28 batters. Tossing out the first and last batters he faced, he threw more than one ball to only two of those 26 batters.<br /><br />From the third inning into the sixth, Ohtani had a 14-batter stretch in which he threw 43 strikes and only six balls. The Red Sox's bats are not putting up much of a fight these days, but that is still impressive.<br /><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/dakern74/status/1522313530652999682" target="_blank">It was</a> the Angels' second-largest shutout at Fenway. The biggest was an 11-0 win exactly 11 years earlier (<a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS201105050.shtml" target="_blank">May 5, 2011</a>).<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPG_trOsTHMV4vaNBYPdKzkO7ziU7HgCmbucUyd4QLwAkq_7jDullqMnJPiDQR6Q4Wsgr0hMHoprCw_TAnCnj_1rukpNtZs0JLrpnLJCduXkiecRxTYciGOZGOVVexnm_aqUaH336T44L93W212BumCrS5LZ9Cqrr9LHjZ24mo10zKoIXIIfU/s728/2022-05-06-nydn.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="627" height="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPG_trOsTHMV4vaNBYPdKzkO7ziU7HgCmbucUyd4QLwAkq_7jDullqMnJPiDQR6Q4Wsgr0hMHoprCw_TAnCnj_1rukpNtZs0JLrpnLJCduXkiecRxTYciGOZGOVVexnm_aqUaH336T44L93W212BumCrS5LZ9Cqrr9LHjZ24mo10zKoIXIIfU/w450-h522/2022-05-06-nydn.JPG" width="450" /></a></div><p><b>The New York Mets</b>, trailing 1-7 in the top of the ninth inning, scored seven runs and beat the Phillies <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PHI/PHI202205050.shtml" target="_blank">8-7</a>. They had not erased a six-run deficit in the ninth in nearly a quarter-century (<a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN199709130.shtml" target="_blank">September 13, 1997</a>).<br /><br />The Mets are also are the second team since at least 1900 to throw a no-hitter (a team effort (Tylor Megill, Drew Smith, Joely Rodriguez, Seth Lugo, and Edwin D铆az) against the Phillies on <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN202204290.shtml" target="_blank">April 29</a>) and have a comeback win after trailing by 6+ runs in the ninth inning in the same week since the 1990 Phillies. Terry Mulholland pitched a no-hitter on <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PHI/PHI199008150.shtml" target="_blank">August 15</a> and the team had a <i>nine-run</i> top of the ninth against the Dodgers on <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LAN199008210.shtml" target="_blank">August 21</a> (and won 12-11).<br /><br /><b>The Cincinnati Reds</b> wish they were playing <i>as good as</i> the Cleveland Spiders. Despite winning two of its first four games, Cincinnati is 3-22. Since April 11, they are 1-18, including a span of eight consecutive games in which they failed to score more than two runs. The infamous <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CLV/1899.shtml" target="_blank">1899 Spiders</a> had a record of  20-134, .130, the worst "winning" percentage in major league history. At their current pace, the Reds will finish 19-143 (.120) and shatter that mark.</p><p><b>Fewest Wins In Team's First 25 Decisions</b></p><div><div><pre><blockquote>1988 Orioles   2<br />1882 Orioles    3<br />1894 Senators   3<br />2003 Tigers   3<br /><b>2022 Reds   3</b><br />1876 Reds   4<br />1885 Wolverines  4<br />1893 Colonels   4<br />1932 Red Sox   4<br />1936 Browns    4<br />1969 Cleveland   4</blockquote></pre>The Reds visit Fenway Park on May 31 and June 1.</div></div></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> by <span class='fn'>allan</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2022/05/ohtani-dominates-red-sox-29-swings-and.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2022-05-06T13:23:00-07:00'>1:23 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/5730822/7755554107526286791' onclick=''>3 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/5730822/7755554107526286791' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-47734877'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5730822&postID=7755554107526286791&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/ohtani' rel='tag'>ohtani</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>November 18, 2021</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='2634137616039775743'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2021/11/shohei-ohtani-is-unanimous-choice-as-al.html'>Shohei Ohtani Is Unanimous Choice As AL MVP</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>Shohei Ohtani is the unanimous choice for American League Most Valuable Player in 2021.</p><p>Ohtani received all 30 first-place votes . . . so hats off to the AL voters: good job not fucking up.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYxd0aiubm75JbQ2oX_XFYhOq8yNeDAjvOp914-Erbb1og_FoO7EnJ6n5mvpwr9xKeOn6G2ab0oquaRezFc79EFq9YWBDnzqnJ5u2m0t5tMCkROFrQkoorGmYGKkQgSrwb5YzsTl25-IAFb2W-tLEVmQrxBblMvM3j6WQ6Nskz02PPA0wEBQY=s797" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="797" height="616" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYxd0aiubm75JbQ2oX_XFYhOq8yNeDAjvOp914-Erbb1og_FoO7EnJ6n5mvpwr9xKeOn6G2ab0oquaRezFc79EFq9YWBDnzqnJ5u2m0t5tMCkROFrQkoorGmYGKkQgSrwb5YzsTl25-IAFb2W-tLEVmQrxBblMvM3j6WQ6Nskz02PPA0wEBQY=w684-h616" width="684" /></a></p><p>The unanimous vote was well-deserved since Ohtani had a truly unprecedented season at the plate and the mound. The only possible "modern" comparisons are more than 100 years old: Babe Ruth's 1918 and 1919 seasons, but Ruth was a true two-way player for only portions of each of those seasons.</p><p>Ohtani batted .257, with a .372 on-base average (5th in the AL) and a .592 percentage (2nd). He hit 46 homers (3rd in AL), 26 doubles, eight triples (1st), scored 103 runs (8th), knocked in 100 runs, and stole 26 bases (5th). He was also 2nd in OPS (.965), 2nd in extra-base hits (80), 2nd in Runs Created (122), 3rd in walks (96), tied for 4th in total bases (318), 7th in times on base (238), and 1st in fewest AB per HR (11.7), 1st in Win Probability Added (5.1), and 1st in intentional walks (20).</p><p>Ohtani also made 23 pitching starts, with a 3.18 ERA and 1.090 WHIP. He struck out 156 batters in 130.1 innings (10.8 K/9). His record was 9-2. Ohtani did not pitch enough innings to qualify among the league leaders, but his ERA would have been 3rd-best, his ERA+ 4th-best, WHIP 4th-best, and his 6.8 H/9 2nd-best.</p><p>From May 5 to August 18, Ohtani made 15 starts and had a 2.71 ERA. If you toss out one horrible start in that stretch against the Yankees, his ERA in the 14 other starts is 2.00 (actually, 1.996108).</p><p>Ohtani led MLB with 9.1 Wins Above Replacement (the same total as Ruth had in 1919), with a large margin between himself and Zack Wheeler's second-best 7.7. Marcus Semien was at 7.3 WAR and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was at 6.8.</p><p>Seemingly every week during the season there was news of Ohtani reaching an unprecedented milestone or two. He became the first player in AL or NL history with at least 45 homers, 25 stolen bases and five triples in a season. No player had ever hit more than 30 homers while making at least 15 starts on the mound. In July, he was the first player elected to the All-Star Game as both a starting pitcher and a position player.</p><p>Ohtani also won his first Silver Slugger Award, was named the MLBPA Player of the Year, as well as the Player of the Year by Baseball America, Baseball Digest, and The Sporting News. </p><p>Sarah Langs (mlb.com) wrote about "<a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/shohei-ohtani-facts-from-2021-al-mvp-season" target="_blank">15 of the coolest, craziest Ohtani facts</a>" from 2021. I'm snipping only eight:</p><p></p><blockquote><p>• Multiple times in '21, Ohtani entered a pitching start leading MLB in home runs. Before him, nobody had done that since Babe Ruth on June 13, 1921, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.</p><p>• It isn't just about pitching prowess and slugging for Ohtani, though: There's speed, too. He became the first player in MLB history (pending inclusion of Negro Leagues stats) to rack up at least 20 homers, steals and pitching appearances in a season. The next-most home runs for anyone with 20 steals and games pitched? That would be eight, by Bob Caruthers in 1887. Again, simply incomparable.</p><p>• There are so many historic combinations of stats that demonstrate Ohtani's unique, never-before-done season that we can't possibly list them all. But one other combo worth noting is his 30-plus homers and 30-plus strikeouts on the mound. And again, Ohtani had 46 homers and 156 strikeouts -- nowhere even close to those modest qualifiers. The prior most strikeouts in a 30-homer season was three, by Babe Ruth in 1930 (49 homers). The prior most homers in a 30-strikeout season was 29, by Ruth in '19, when he struck out exactly 30 batters.</p><p>• Ohtani finished the season with 46 homers, third most in MLB, and eight triples, which was tied for the most with Bryan Reynolds and David Peralta. He became the first player to finish in the top three in both home runs and triples in a season, including ties, since Jim Rice in 1978.</p><p>• On May 12, Ohtani batted leadoff for the first time all season, and he did it the day after a pitching start. He became the first player to start a game on the mound, then bat leadoff in his team's next game since Ray Caldwell on July 25-26, 1916. Caldwell started for the Yankees, then batted leadoff, then played center field the next day, according to Elias.</p><p>• On June 29 at Yankee Stadium, Ohtani hit two homers. The next day, he started on the mound, becoming the fifth player to hit at least two homers in a game and then start the team's next game on the mound, joining 1930 Babe Ruth, 1887 John Clarkson, 1886 Bob Caruthers and 1883 Monte Ward, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.</p><p>• On Aug. 12, Ohtani started the game in the leadoff spot and got the pitching win. The only other player to do that since at least 1906 was Charlie Jamieson on <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PHA/PHA191808190.shtml" target="_blank">Aug. 19, 1918</a>.</p><p>• Ohtani hit 25 home runs with a 110 mph exit velocity or harder, four more than anyone else. He also hit six that traveled at least 450 feet, tied for third most this season.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>Also: Three Red Sox players received MVP votes. Rafael Devers finished 11th, Xander Bogaerts was 13th, and Nathan Eovaldi was 15th. . . . Devers's fifth-place vote came from Peter Abraham of the Globe.</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> by <span class='fn'>allan</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2021/11/shohei-ohtani-is-unanimous-choice-as-al.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2021-11-18T17:33:00-08:00'>5:33 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/5730822/2634137616039775743' onclick=''>1 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/5730822/2634137616039775743' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-47734877'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5730822&postID=2634137616039775743&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/ohtani' rel='tag'>ohtani</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>September 29, 2021</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='8354885707153606813'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2021/09/ohtani-walked-13-times-in-span-of-21-pa.html'>Ohtani Walked 13 Times In A Span Of 21 PA (September 21-25);<br>He Also Hit Two Triples And A Home Run, And Scored Six Runs<br>Then He Pitched Seven Innings, Allowed One Run, Struck Out 10</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>In 19 plate appearances spanning four games last week, Shohei Ohtani walked 13 times!</p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">0921 vs HOU -  F8  13   <b>1B  HR</b><br />0922 vs HOU -  <b>BB  BB   3U  BBI  BBI  K</b><br />0923 vs HOU -  <b>K   BB   BB  BB</b><br />0924 vs SEA -  <b>K   BBI  BB  BB   BBI</b><br />0925 vs SEA  - <b>3B  3B   BB  BB</b>   K</span></p><p>In the bolded entries, Ohtani came to the plate 21 times. He went 4-for-8 with 13 walks. His on-base percentage was .810. Three of his four hits were for extra bases. He also scored six times, drove in four runs, and stole his 24th base of the season.</p><p>Then, on September 26, Ohtani pitched seven innings, allowing only five hits and one run (a solo home run in his final inning). He walked no one and struck out 10.</p><p><b>Most Walks In A Three-Game Span (Since 1901)</b></p><p></p><blockquote>11 - Bryce Harper (2016)<br />11 - Shohei Ohtani (2021)<br />10 - Tris Speaker (1912)<br />10 - Babe Ruth (1930)<br />10 - Max Bishop (1934)<br />10 - Eddie Stanky (1950)<br />10 - Pete Runnels (1959)<br />10 - Reggie Jackson (1969)<br />10 - Barry Bonds (2002)</blockquote><p></p><p><b>Most Walks In A Four-Game Span (Since 1901)</b></p><p></p><blockquote>13 - Babe Ruth (1930)<br />13 - Shohei Ohtani (2021)<br />13 - Yasmani Grandal (2021)</blockquote><p></p><p>Ohtani was also the first player since Barry Bonds (2003) to have at least three walks in three consecutive games. (The MLB record is four consecutive games: Mickey Mantle (1957) and Babe Ruth (1930).)</p><p>Ohtani has walked four times in a game twice this season, joining Fred Lynn (1984), Chris Iannetta  (2013), and Mike Trout (2018) as the only Angels players to do so.</p><div>Ohtani leads the American League with 17 intentional walks (five more than Matt Olson). (Juan Soto of the Reds leads MLB with 22.)</div><p>Only 37.7% of pitches thrown to Ohtani this season have been in the strike zone. It's the fourth-lowest strike percentage among all major league batters. Despite seeing so few strikes, Ohtani ranks fourth in MLB in slugging, fifth in OPS, and tied for fifth in total bases.</p><p><b>Players With 45+ HR, 20+ SB, 6+ Triples In A Season</b></p><p></p><blockquote>Willie Mays (1955)<br />Shohei Ohtani (2021)</blockquote><p></p><p>No player in the last 100 years has pitched in more than 15 games and hit more than 4 triples in a single season.  Well, except for Shohei Ohtani (23 games, 7 triples). Exploding head</p><p><b>Players Pitching In 15+ Games And Hitting 4+ Triples In A Season (Last 100 Years)</b></p><p></p><blockquote>Bullet Rogan (<a href="https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/team.php?yearID=1928&teamID=KCM&LGOrd=1" target="_blank">1928</a>, Negro National League I): 17 games, 5 triples)<br />Shohei Ohtani (2021, American League: 23 games, 7 triples)</blockquote><p></p><p>Here are the only known occasions (AL/NL) in which a pitcher has been intentionally walked in back-to-back pitching appearances:</p><p></p><blockquote><p><b>Babe Ruth</b><br />August 17, 1918 vs Cleveland<br />August 20, 1918 vs Cleveland</p><p><b>Shohei Ohtani</b><br />September 10, 2021 at Astros<br />September 19, 2021 vs Athletics</p></blockquote><p>Ohtani has hit five home runs with an exit velocity of 116+ MPH, the most in MLB.</p><p>Ohtani is only the sixth major league pitcher to make 13+ starts at home with no losing decisions and an ERA under 2.00. In 13 Anaheim starts, he's 6-0, 1.95.</p><p>Mike Trout, on Ohtani:</p><p></p><blockquote>He's the MVP. He's just a truly amazing talent. What Vladdy is doing over there is unbelievable and he's in the race. His [offensive] numbers might be a little bit better than Ohtani but then you look at Vladdy's pitching. . . . I haven't seen him pitch.</blockquote><p></p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> by <span class='fn'>allan</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2021/09/ohtani-walked-13-times-in-span-of-21-pa.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2021-09-29T13:22:00-07:00'>1:22 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/5730822/8354885707153606813' onclick=''>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/5730822/8354885707153606813' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-47734877'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5730822&postID=8354885707153606813&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/ohtani' rel='tag'>ohtani</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>August 18, 2021</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='1039097530248092606'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2021/08/jack-morris-suspended-as-tigers.html'>Jack Morris Suspended As Tigers Broadcaster For Affecting An Asian Accent During A Shohei Ohtani At-Bat (He Later Offers A Pathetic Non-Apology Apology While Calling Ohtani "Jose")</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Jack Morris mocks an Asian accent as Ohtani comes to the plate. Embarrassing. <a href="https://t.co/LKLTKiDE7C">pic.twitter.com/LKLTKiDE7C</a></p>— TheDLine™ (@TheDetroitLine) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheDetroitLine/status/1427820780423897092?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><div>Bally Sports Detroit has suspended broadcast analyst (and Hall of Fame pitcher) Jack Morris indefinitely after he affected an Asian accent during a Shohei Ohtani at-bat on Tuesday night.</div><div><br /></div><div>The network stated it was "extremely disappointed" and said Morris would begin "bias training". The Tigers supported the decision, stating that it takes "immense pride in honoring the diverse cultures that make up our players, coaching staff, front office, fan base and community. . . . We fully support Bally Sports Detroit's . . . on-going commitment to ensure that all personnel are held to the highest standards of personal conduct."</div><div><div><br /></div><div>The next time Ohtani came to the plate, Morris <a href="https://awfulannouncing.com/mlb/jack-morris-offers-if-i-offended-anybody-apology-after-shohei-ohtani-humor-attempt-comes-out-racist.html" target="_blank">tried apologizing</a> for his earlier remarks - and completely failed.</div><div> <blockquote>Well folks, Shohei Ohtani is coming to the plate and <b>it's been brought to my attention</b>, and I sincerely apologize <b>if I offended anybody</b>, especially anybody in the Asian community for what I said about pitching and being careful to <b>Jose -- err, Shohei Ohtani</b>. I did not intend for any offensive thing and I apologize <b>if I did</b>. I certainly respect and have the utmost respect for this guy and don't blame a pitcher for walking him. <i>(my emphasis)</i></blockquote> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Jack Morris apologies before Shohei Otani's at-bat in the ninth inning. <a href="https://t.co/WdCjfyfSvX">pic.twitter.com/WdCjfyfSvX</a></p>— Spencer Wheelock (@SpencerWheelock) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerWheelock/status/1427825326684622848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p>So much wrong with this statement.</p><p>1. <b>"Brought to my attention"</b>. Morris admits he had <a href="https://twitter.com/sgw94/status/1427832345655185410" target="_blank">no clue</a> that using a mock Asian accent when talking about an Asian player was wrong (or, at the very least, wholly unprofessional and puerile). Jack Morris is 66 years old.</p><p>1. <b>Not an apology</b>. Morris offers an apology <i>IF</i> anyone was offended, meaning the problem of offense rests with the listener. He does not believe he said anything offensive.</p><p>2. <b>"The Asian Community"</b>. After addressing his non-apology to "anybody", Morris singles out a specific group of people, thinking they would be especially offended and disgusted by his pathetic and racist attempt at humor (oh, sorry, offended by what he "said about pitching").</p><p>3. <b>"Jose"</b>. Morris fumbles Ohtani's first name. (Because there are so many "ethnics" in the game these days, it's hard to keep them all straight?)</p><p>Morris has been <a href="https://deadspin.com/the-writer-who-was-too-strong-to-live-1785661187" target="_blank">known as a shit</a> for decades. Back in 1990, he objected to having female reporters in the locker room after games (the matter had been settled in the courts at least 12 years earlier), telling reporter Jennifer Frey: "I don't talk to women when I'm naked unless they're on top of me or I'm on top of them." <i>[Morris was not naked when he said this.]</i> During the 1991 ALCS, Frey said Kirby Puckett of the Twins had to keep Morris from physically attacking her, though he did call her a bitch.</p><p>Last month, ESPN's Stephen A. Smith made offensive (and stupid) comments about Ohtani, saying that MLB is not helped by the fact that one of the sport's most popular players "needs an interpreter so you can understand what the hell he's saying, in this country". Sports Illustrated <a href="https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2021/07/13/stephen-a-smith-shohei-ohtani-espn-first-take-comments" target="_blank">reported</a> that "Smith later put out one of those hostage apology videos where the person's face is about an inch from their phone while they ramble and try to cover their ass, but instead, just make things worse".</p><p>You know, I'm beginning to think we maybe <i>don't</i> live in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-racial_America" target="_blank">a post-racial world</a>.</p></div></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> by <span class='fn'>allan</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2021/08/jack-morris-suspended-as-tigers.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2021-08-18T15:07:00-07:00'>3:07 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/5730822/1039097530248092606' onclick=''>3 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/5730822/1039097530248092606' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-47734877'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5730822&postID=1039097530248092606&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/media%20madness' rel='tag'>media madness</a>, <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/ohtani' rel='tag'>ohtani</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>July 14, 2021</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry'> <a name='4288786424625043154'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2021/07/ohtani-monday-crushed-record-six-500.html'>Ohtani, Monday: Crushed A Record Six 500+-Foot Homers In HR Derby<br>Ohtani, Tuesday: Pitched A Perfect Inning, Batted Leadoff, Got The "Win"<br>Ohtani, Wednesday: Slept All Day (Probably)</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content'> <p>Shohei Ohtani hit 28 home runs in the first round of the Home Run Derby on Monday night, before he was eliminated by Juan Soto. Fifteen of those 28 homers traveled 475+ feet – a new record for a single Derby round. And six home runs were measured at over 500 feet, also a record, at least since Statcast began measuring derby long balls in 2016.</p><p>On Tuesday, Ohtani grounded out to begin the ASG and then took the mound, needing only 14 pitches to retire Fernando Tatis Jr., Max Muncy, and Nolan Arenado. Two of his fastballs to Arenado were clocked at 100.2 and 99.7 mph, the fastest pitches Ohtani has thrown in three months.</p><p>Ohtani (0-for-2) was only the fourth All-Star Game starting pitcher to have two plate appearances. The other three: Lefty Gomez (1935), Bob Friend (1960), and Steve Carlton (1969). That trio went 1-for-6 (Carlton hit a double), but only Ohtani put the ball in play in both of his at-bats.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Just so we're clear, Shohei Ohtani in the last 24 hours:<br /><br />• hit 28 HR in the HR Derby<br />• hit a 513-foot HR<br />• batted leadoff in the AS Game<br />• started the AS game on the mound<br />• threw 100.2-mph fastball<br />• 1 IP, 0 runs, 0 hits<br />• earned the win as the pitcher for the AL <a href="https://t.co/IMXqlgw3Ej">pic.twitter.com/IMXqlgw3Ej</a></p>— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSSports/status/1415148885564002307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Shohei Ohtani's MLB All-Star showing:<br /><br />Last night: 513-foot home run<br />Tonight: 100.2 MPH fastball <a href="https://t.co/rPE4ABfHyL">pic.twitter.com/rPE4ABfHyL</a></p>— The Athletic (@TheAthletic) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAthletic/status/1415110090592378881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Though he was eliminated in the 1st Round by Juan Soto, Shohei Ohtani hit six 500-foot home runs, the most in a single Home Run Derby since Statcast began tracking in 2016. <a href="https://t.co/uJOW6NwIbf">pic.twitter.com/uJOW6NwIbf</a></p>— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNStatsInfo/status/1414762745719894016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><div>Jeff Passan, <a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/page/mlbmain-howshoheiohtani/how-shohei-ohtani-won-night-winning-home-run-derby" target="_blank">ESPN</a>:</div><div></div><blockquote><div>This is what Shohei Ohtani does. He reduces men who are the best in the world at what they do to fanboys. He turns fans who can't conceive of what he does to putty. He takes the idea that Major League Baseball isn't cool or interesting or fun and renders each of those conceits moot with his play alone. He takes the limits of sporting achievement to the precipice – and sometimes beyond what we considered possible. He takes a world so big – from his home country of Japan to the United States to nations beyond – and shrinks it to a 5-ounce orb that he can hit 500 feet and propel at 100 mph.</div><div><div><br /></div><div>To understand what Ohtani is, why he matters and how he represents the world of sports that can bring together this country like nothing else, days like Monday are important. Because even if the top-seeded Ohtani did lose in an epic, first-round derby matchup against Washington Nationals star Juan Soto, the reactions of those who bore witness – from his peers to Ken Griffey Jr. to the more than 50,000 fans who packed the stadium to the millions of others that watched – told a far greater story than Ohtani ever could with his words.</div><div><br /></div><div>If sports teaches us anything, it's that people's actions often matter more than their voices – that the mere idea of Ohtani doing what Babe Ruth did in the major leagues, what Double Duty Radcliffe and Bullet Rogan did in the Negro Leagues, is special, and that doing it in an era when baseball players are more talented than they've ever been is otherworldly. Stephen A. Smith on Monday morning tried to make the argument that Ohtani's use of an interpreter to communicate with the media limits the audience he and baseball can draw. It was ridiculed rightfully and immediately, and Smith later apologized, which was good, because Monday night disproved the entire premise.</div><div><br /></div><div>Nobody tunes into a sport to listen to what athletes have to say. It might be important, it might be noble, it might be righteous, but it is not the draw. The athlete is. What he does is. What she achieves is. Anybody who chooses to watch baseball only if Ohtani addresses the media in English instead of Japanese doesn't deserve the joy and pleasure of watching him.</div><div><br /></div><div>What Ohtani displayed Monday perfectly illustrated a skill set so alluring, a vibe so intoxicating, a tale so unique to sports that anyone watching couldn't help but fall in love. Early in the day, he sat on a dais announcing the game's starters and basked in admiration of Max Scherzer, the future Hall of Famer and his National League starting-pitching counterpart. Ohtani tried to contextualize what he was doing, but how can anyone when it's so singular?</div><div><br /></div><div>If Ohtani's ability to hit and throw with equal eminence is the most impressive thing about him, his demeanor isn't far behind. As he struggled during his first major league spring training in 2018 and scouts picked apart his swing and writers – yours truly, misguidedly, at the forefront – wondered whether he could actually play both ways, Ohtani never lost faith, never lost sight of who he is, how he operates, why he believes. His is a legend of excellence, yes, but it's also one of perseverance. It's no wonder, then, that as Mancini led off the derby, Ohtani rested on a Gatorade cooler, his bat between his legs, talking and laughing with Ippei Mizuhara, his interpreter and confidant. The entire stadium came to see Ohtani. The world tuned in to watch him. And he just cracked jokes, like the weight of a few million eyeballs was featherlight. . . .</div><div><br /></div><div>Every day, Ohtani carries his own expectations and the pressure of those eyeballs and the burden of trying to do something nobody has come close to doing in decades, and he does it laughing and smiling and making faces. . . .</div><div><br /></div><div>On Monday night, Ohtani put on a show. He didn't win like Pete Alonso, and he didn't hit as many home runs as Mancini, and he didn't beat Soto. And that really didn't matter. Because amid a frightening time in America for people of Asian descent, when so many have been subjected to reprehensible violence and mistreatment, Shohei Ohtani, a Japanese man, started his unprecedented, 24-hour stretch playing America's pastime with a bang. English, Japanese – it doesn't matter the language. There's only one word for Ohtani, and it's not up for interpretation: amazing.</div></div></blockquote><div><div></div><div>(Stephen A. Smith is an ignorant clown, desperate for attention. He's never said anything remotely interesting or original.)</div><div><br /></div><div>Chelsea Janes (Washington Post) <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/07/13/shohei-ohtani-mlb-all-star-game/" target="_blank">writes</a>: that Ohtani may not have been the star of either the Home Run Derby or the All-Star Game, but he was always in the spotlight on both nights.</div><div></div><blockquote><div>He's the kind of player baseball never knew it needed until he arrived.</div><div><br /></div><div> Ohtani wasn't the only fresh star on display Tuesday. . . . But when fellow all-stars took selfies to remember it all, they clamored for Ohtani. When the television cameras needed somewhere to look, they often found Ohtani . . . He was a source of global fascination unlike any this sport has seen in recent memory. . . .</div><div><br /></div><div>"At any given time, he most likely has the most power, the most velocity, the most speed on the field. To have all those attributes in one player, it's so good for the game, and it's inspiring to watch," New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole said. . . . "There's a simplicity to him, just being able to fulfill that dream. Even as a pitcher now or as a hitter, a certain inner child in us would love to do all of it. He's doing it." . . .</div><div><br /></div><div>Nearly every player on both teams was asked about Ohtani at some point. Many of them found themselves explaining how utterly impossible it was to explain what they were watching. . . .</div><div><br /></div><div>The closest player may be Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/07/12/shohei-ohtani-negro-leagues-two-way-stars/">who spent his entire career pitching and hitting</a>, earned six Negro Leagues all-star bids – three as a pitcher, three as a catcher – and was still competing a full decade after Babe Ruth retired. But Radcliffe retired 75 years ago, long before innovations in physical training and more nuanced skill training birthed an era in which a 95-mph fastball is the norm and prolific power no longer guarantees stardom. Ohtani is, in that sense, unprecedented.</div></blockquote><div></div></div> That last link provides some information that has not been much of a part of the Ohtani discussion. Several players in the Negro Leagues were true two-way players and now that they are officially considered major leaguer players, they must be recognized.<div><br /><div><div>After Pittsburgh Crawfords catcher Ted Radcliffe hit a grand slam and caught Satchel Paige's shutout in the first game of a 1932 doubleheader against the New York Black Yankees, he pitched a shutout of his own in the second game. New York sportswriter Damon Runyon dubbed him "Double Duty".</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/radclte01.shtml" target="_blank">Theodore Roosevelt Radcliffe</a> pitched and caught for his entire career (1928-1946), even at the age of 43, in his final season. His statistic record is fragmentary, with stats from 371 games: 279 as a catcher, 88 as a pitcher; he also played a little bit in left field, right field, and at first base and second base. <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ted_Radcliffe" target="_blank">Radcliffe</a> passed away in 2005 at the age of 103.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/roganbu99.shtml" target="_blank">Charles Wilbur "Bullet" Rogan </a>was another black baseball star who pitched and played the field. His Hall of Fame <a href="https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/rogan-bullet" target="_blank">stats</a> (a 13-year career, all with the Kansas City Monarchs) include 120 wins as a pitcher, a .338 batting average, .521 slugging percentage, and a .934 OPS.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Kevin B. Blackistone <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/07/12/shohei-ohtani-negro-leagues-two-way-stars/" target="_blank">writes</a>:</div></div><div></div><blockquote><div>[I]n the run-up to the All-Star Game, we who tell baseball's story continue to suggest Ohtani is a unicorn.</div><div><br /></div><div>History does not at all support that observation — unless, of course, you participate in purposefully overlooking Black history. Such is the scorched-earth path toward ignorance down which some Republicans want to lead students <a href="https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/republicans-want-federal-funding-cuts-to-schools-using-1619-project-but-theres-a-twist/2021/06" target="_blank">by attempting to punish</a> the teaching of Nikole Hannah-Jones's Pulitzer Prize-winning <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html" target="_blank">1619 Project</a> on the role and legacy of enslaved Africans in this country.</div><div><br /></div><div>Maybe baseball needs a 1920 Project, to study the game from the year the Negro Leagues commenced. Or, better still, an 1887 Project, to examine the game from the year it adopted, in cowardly secret, one of those mischaracterized <a href="https://baseballhall.org/civilrights" target="_blank">gentlemen's agreements</a> to keep the progeny of enslaved Africans from participating with everyone else.</div><div><br /></div><div>The truth is that Ohtani's two-way feats are more appropriately compared to what Negro Leagues players did regularly than what Ruth did for the first part of his career. Ohtani reminds of Negro Leagues players who were not specialized, which is what Ruth became as a batter. The 27-year-old is reminiscent of Negro Leagues players who were encouraged to showcase the full array of their athletic abilities – and were celebrated for doing so. Rogan, for example, was credited with stealing 106 bases – including 26 in 1929, when he was 35. Ruth never stole more than 17 in a season. Ohtani, midway through his fourth season, has 41 career steals.</div><div><br /></div><div>So Ohtani isn't someone we've missed in baseball since Ruth. He isn't a once-in-a-century talent. He is a multitalented athlete . . . and one whose manager, Joe Maddon, has allowed him to shine, maybe out of compulsion. With arguably the game’s best player, outfielder Mike Trout, sidelined by injury . . . Ohtani has been leaned upon as a batter . . . not unlike Radcliffe was in 1929 when his Detroit Stars' pitching staff was shortened by injuries and he answered the call for an extra arm. . . .</div></blockquote><blockquote><div>Ohtani is part of that lineage of do-everything stars, tied mostly to Negro Leagues players rather than Ruth. They include Leon Day . . . who in 1937 <a href="https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/leon-day/" target="_blank">posted</a> a 13-0 record with a 3.02 ERA while batting .320 with eight home runs for the Newark Eagles. Then there was Afro-Cuban <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dihigma99.shtml" target="_blank">Mart铆n Dihigo</a>, the first Cuban-born Hall of Famer and another two-way star, whom fellow Hall of Famer Buck Leonard <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/martin-dihigo-stories-facts-and-figures-to-know" target="_blank">called</a> "the best ballplayer of all time, Black or White."</div></blockquote><div></div></div></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> by <span class='fn'>allan</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2021/07/ohtani-monday-crushed-record-six-500.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' title='2021-07-14T17:26:00-07:00'>5:26 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/5730822/4288786424625043154' onclick=''>0 comments</a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/5730822/4288786424625043154' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-47734877'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5730822&postID=4288786424625043154&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/ohtani' rel='tag'>ohtani</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> </div> <div class='blog-pager' id='blog-pager'> <span id='blog-pager-older-link'> <a class='blog-pager-older-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/ohtani?updated-max=2021-07-14T17:26:00-07:00&max-results=20&start=18&by-date=false' id='Blog1_blog-pager-older-link' title='Older Posts'>Older Posts</a> </span> <a class='home-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/'>Home</a> </div> <div class='clear'></div> <div class='blog-feeds'> <div class='feed-links'> Subscribe to: <a class='feed-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default' target='_blank' type='application/atom+xml'>Posts (Atom)</a> </div> </div> </div></div> </div> </div> <div class='column-left-outer'> <div class='column-left-inner'> <aside> </aside> </div> </div> <div class='column-right-outer'> <div class='column-right-inner'> <aside> <div class='sidebar section' id='sidebar-right-1'><div class='widget HTML' data-version='1' id='HTML5'> <h2 class='title'><b>AVAILABLE NOW!<br>NEW PAPERBACK EDITION!</b></h2> <div class='widget-content'> <a href="http://dontletuswin.com/"><a href="https://ibb.co/LrWbZ9v"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/jz2Br3H/DLUWT-PB.png" alt="DLUWT-PB" border="0" /></a></a><br/><span style="font-weight:bold;">Don't Let Us Win Tonight:<br/>An Oral History Of The 2004 Boston<br/>Red Sox's Impossible Playoff Run</span><br/><br/>"The 2004 Red Sox were baseball's midnight riders, a fearless, iconoclastic band . . . 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<span dir='ltr'>(46)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/robots'>robots</a> <span dir='ltr'>(105)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/schadenfreude'>schadenfreude</a> <span dir='ltr'>(485)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/something%20else'>something else</a> <span dir='ltr'>(43)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/stones-exile'>stones-exile</a> <span dir='ltr'>(23)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/search/label/weei'>weei</a> <span dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> </ul> <div class='clear'></div> </div> </div><div class='widget Text' data-version='1' id='Text1'> <h2 class='title'>Blurbs (Old)</h2> <div class='widget-content'> "A Yoda-like figure in the Red Sox blogosphere."<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Dan Lamothe, <a href="http://blog.masslive.com/redsoxmonster/2007/04/sox_monster_interview_allan_wo.html">Mass. Live</a>, April 2007</span><br /><br />"Be forewarned if salty language gives you<br />the vapors."<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Art Martone, Providence Journal,<br />September 2007</span><br /><br />"If you haven't been reading Joy of Sox,<br />I guess you're not a good person."<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Sam, </span><a href="http://felineanarchy.blogspot.com/2005/01/please-tell-me-im-not-only-person-in.html" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: italic;">Blue Cats and Red Sox</a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;">, </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;">January 2005</span><div><br />"Joy of Sox is like good tasting cough medicine."<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Sarah, </span><a href="http://www.rallycuff.blogspot.com/" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: italic;">RallyCuff</a><div><br />"One of the only Sox blogs I can stomach."<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Joe Pawlikowski, </span><a href="http://riveraveblues.com/" style="font-style: italic;">River Avenue Blues</a><br /><br />"It's my favorite non-puppet Red Sox blog site!"<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Franco Capizzo, The Joy of Sox comment, October 30, 2018</span><br /><br />"If Keith Olbermann was a Red Sox fan,<br />he'd be this guy."<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Johnny Sideburns, Surviving Grady comment, January 15, 2008</span><br /><br />"Joy of Sox, the only blog that offers both Red Sox coverage and far-out left wing conspiracy theories in one convenient package."<br /><a href="http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2004/12/27/the-year-in-review/" style="font-style: italic;">Andrew Sullivan</a><span style="font-style: italic;">, December 27, 2004</span><br /><br />"<a href="http://blogsofnote.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html">Blog of Note</a>" (Blogger)<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">October 24, 2007</span></div></div> </div> <div class='clear'></div> </div><div class='widget 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dir='ltr'>(53)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2020/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2020/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2020/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(26)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span 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class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(49)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2018/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(40)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2018/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(24)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2018/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' 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class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(36)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2017/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2017/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2017/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' 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August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(114)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2007/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(80)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2007/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(59)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2007/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(93)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' 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