Proving that the Cactus League can sometimes impersonate baseball’s 1930 season, there were a total of 153 runs scored in seven Arizona-hosted games on Thursday—an average of 11 runs per team. Hitters batted .336 with 39 home runs in 541 at-bats.
Arod Carew
Well done, @baseball-reference.com.
A new housing development at TGG's new home base of St. George, Utah has three streets named so far—and these are two of them. I'm guessing that Rockies Way and Devil Rays Drive will be next.
Newsworthy day for #Tigers pitchers past, present and future:
* Mickey Lolich passes away at age 85
* Tarik Skubal has his arbitration hearing
* Framber Valdez signs with Detroit for 3 years, $115m
No pitcher who's played the majority of his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates is in the Hall of Fame.
New members of Baseball’s Hall of Fame—if there are to be any—will be announced today. With that in mind, here’s our Opinions piece from three years ago that is more relevant than ever, especially given this year’s relatively weak slate of candidates. thisgreatgame.com/opinion1-23/
RIP Wilbur Wood, 84, a Chicago White Sox workhorse in the 1970s and arguably the best left-handed knuckleballer in major league history. Read his SABR bio: sabr.org/bioproj/pers...
Strong typographical concept, but the chiseled look is more evocative of stone than steel
Frankie Frisch had much to do with that spike in the 1920s and 1930s. He ran the Vets committee from 1967-73 and took cronyism to an absurd level.
The most runs scored by the Pirates all year...in the same game they gave up the most.
Donora, PA barely has a population of 5,000, yet is the birthplace of two left-handed slugging, HOF legends both born 49 years apart on the same date—today.
Happy birthday to Stan "the Man" Musial and Ken "the Kid" Griffey Jr.
Saw this game as a young kid vacationing with my parents at Lake Tahoe. A young Al Michaels behind the mic for ABC.
ESPN can't wait for next season.
Today's First Pitch looks back at one the greatest games in baseball history. Check it out.
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Have pitchers gotten wilder?
According to @Stathead, there have been 24 instances of a team throwing three or more wild pitches in a postseason game since 1982.
Before 1982? None.
First Pitch incoming. Obviously, a lot to talk (and write) about out here on the West Coast.
This is the deal with the devil that sports entities have made and are now seeing the consequences of.
Beware #MLB...and NFL, and NBA, and so on...
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Random thought: Ever since Arte Moreno stripped "Anaheim" from the #Angels team name in 2016, they haven't had a single winning season. The Curse of Anaheim?
The #Mets' Juan Soto has stolen two bases tonight at Miami. He needs two more to become a 40-40 man.
He won the AL MVP 73 years ago and he's still with us. Happy 100th birthday to Bobby Shantz!
In losing another game, 8-4 to the #Marlins, the #Rockies see their season run differential dip to -402; if that stands (or gets worse) by season's end, they'll be the first team in the modern era to finish a year at or over -400.
For the second time in three games, the #Dodgers are taking a no-hitter into the ninth inning. If they complete this one, it will be a combined effort, with Tyler Glasnow (seven innings) and Blake Treinen (one) keeping the #Rockies hitless—but not scoreless.
For those who want to know:
This season, there have been 65 position players who have appeared in a combined 122 games as an emergency (late-inning batting practice) pitcher. In 134 innings, they've given up 269 hits, 171 runs (163 earned), 38 HRs, 50 BBs, and have hit 21 batters.
ERA: 10.95.
A woman umpire, the year's longest winning streak, baseball at a NASCAR racetrack, and the latest four-homer performance. All that and much more, including some surprises on our rundown of the month's Best & Worst, in our August Comebacker. thisgreatgame.com/comebacker/
Besides the four home runs he hit tonight, Kyle Schwarber set a #Phillies record with nine RBIs. Four players had held the old mark of eight, most recently Jayson Werth in 2008.
Position players who are not paid to pitch are embarrassing to the game. #MLB needs to make it harder for them to enter a game.
The #Mariners' Cal Raleigh is the first AL player not named Aaron Judge to hit 50 HRs in a season since Chris Davis in 2013.
