Craig Counsell gets a hit!

[TruffleShuffle]

http://milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110805&content_id=22793674&notebook_id=22794852&vkey=notebook_mil&c_id=mil

 

might not sound that noteworthy, but when he singled in the brewers' win on friday night, he broke an 0-for-45 streak. it was his first hit in 57 days. if he'd gone one more AB without a hit, he would have tied the record for longest streak, held by bill bergen, probably the worst baseball player in history.

 

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bill bergen's stats (possibly so grotesque they could be considered nsfw: http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bergebi01.shtml

stephen colbert making fun of counsell (as well as adam dunn): http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/393973/august-04-2011/sport-report---baseball-s-lowest-records--gambling-on-players---stephen-controls-mlb-s-twitter-feed

[NewUserName]

makes you wonder why a team like Milwaukee who is in contention keeps him around....of course it reminds me of the Cubs keeping Lenny Harris around for so long in 2003

[Little Slide Rooter]

He's their Koyie Hill, with much longer tenure. He's not going away until it's on his own terms.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

The crazy thing was, the article I saw said he only had five strikeouts during that streak. 0-for-40 on balls in play.

[illiniguy]

makes you wonder why a team like Milwaukee who is in contention keeps him around....of course it reminds me of the Cubs keeping Lenny Harris around for so long in 2003

Didn't keep him around long enough. If we had kept him all year maybe we wouldn't have chose to pitch to Mike Lowell.

[MSG T]

The crazy thing was, the article I saw said he only had five strikeouts during that streak. 0-for-40 on balls in play.

 

When all you're capable of doing is hitting the ball on the ground softly, and you have no speed anymore, you're not going to get many hits. That said, 0-40 on balls in play is seriously unlucky.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

How the hell is he still on an MLB roster?