Re: Games in which the Cubs are not playing

[sneakypower]

if we still had Z we'd only lose 85 games! oh, the humanity!

[Theo]

It was still an awful trade given how much money we had to pick up and what we got in return.

[PriortoTheoIhadWood]

So maybe we should have tolerated one more year of Z? It sure does suck to pay 15 million dollars to watch Volstad be bad.

 

Meh. I'm fine the way it is.

[Theo]

I guess you did remove the risk (albeit low) that he finishes top 4 in Cy Young and his vesting kicks in but that's all I can think of.

[CubColtPacer]

So maybe we should have tolerated one more year of Z? It sure does suck to pay 15 million dollars to watch Volstad be bad.

 

Pitcher A: 7.02 K/9, 3.07 BB/9, 0.66 HR/9, 18.7% LD rate against, 3.59 FIP, 3.74 xFIP

Pitcher B: 5.73 K/9, 2.73 BB/9, 0.55 HR/9, 18.0% LD rate against, 3.38 FIP, 4.12 xFIP

 

The differences between them are not that huge. Z isn't going to be able to strand 88 percent of his runners all season, and Volstad will start stranding more than 46 percent of them.

[Little Slide Rooter]

I stick by my original stance that we would have been better off hanging on to him in hopes that he could boost his value by the deadline.

[PriortoTheoIhadWood]

I stick by my original stance that we would have been better off hanging on to him in hopes that he could boost his value by the deadline.

 

In which case we get Chris Volstad a few months later.

[Abedunk34]

Don't know if I've ever seen or heard of this happening, but the Rays 1st 5 hitters all started off the game without an official AB.

 

3 walks, a sac fly, and a HBP to start the game. The 6th and 7th hitters have both singled. And the Rays start off the game 2 for 2 with 4 runs scored.

 

Edit: then 8th hitter hits into a double play. So, at the end of the 1st, the Rays hitters only made an out in 1 official AB, but scored 4 runs.

 

There was also another cool little stat today:

 

Today was the first game since 1925 in which both teams used a position player on the mound. The Red Sox and Orioles went 17 innings today with 1B Chris Davis pitching 2 innings and getting the win. Davis had a very pitcher-esque day at the plate going 0-8 with 5 k's.

 

In case you're wondering or you even care, that game in 1925 had Ty Cobb and George Sisler closing out the last game of a doubleheader on the last day of the season for their respective teams.

My great grandfather, Bill Jacobson, batted cleanup for the Browns in that game.

 

Hah! That's totally random and really cool.

 

I pulled up his Baseball Reference page, looks like he was a really good player (I'm assuming this is him?).

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jacobba01.shtml

Yeah, that's him. My grandmother, now in her 90's, can still recall details of his playing days in Boston when she was a little girl.

[Guest]

Josh Hamilton has three homers today and he's due up third in the eighth inning.

 

EDIT: Wow. Hamilton just hit his fourth homer of the game on an 0-2 pitch. He also has a double and the 18 total bases are the most ever by an American League player and tied for the second most in major league history.

[erik316wttn]

Josh Hamilton has three homers today and he's due up third in the eighth inning.

 

EDIT: Wow. Hamilton just hit his fourth homer of the game on an 0-2 pitch. He also has a double and the 18 total bases are the most ever by an American League player and tied for the second most in major league history.

 

Until tonight he's never had more than 2 HR in a game. Strange. But he's a great hitter and it doesn't shock me all that much. Good for him.

[PriortoTheoIhadWood]

Wow congrats to him. That's a sick performance...

 

Last guy to hit 4 in a game was Mike Cameron for the White Sox, and I feel like that was a decade ago.

[erik316wttn]

Also this has been a good season thus far in terms of individual accomplishments. A perfect game, a no-hitter, a 4-hr game... this is why baseball is awesome.

[ELCABALLO45]

Wow congrats to him. That's a sick performance...

 

Last guy to hit 4 in a game was Mike Cameron for the White Sox, and I feel like that was a decade ago.

 

Carlos Delgado

[PriortoTheoIhadWood]

Wow congrats to him. That's a sick performance...

 

Last guy to hit 4 in a game was Mike Cameron for the White Sox, and I feel like that was a decade ago.

 

Carlos Delgado

 

Wow good call...Cameron wasn't even the last guy to do it the year he did it (Shawn Green).

[OleMissCub]

Timmy on BBTN just pointed out that Hamilton had 18 total bases tonight and Pujols only has 18 in his last 19 games. Ooof.

[Guest]

Wow congrats to him. That's a sick performance...

 

Last guy to hit 4 in a game was Mike Cameron for the White Sox, and I feel like that was a decade ago.

 

It was. Pretty sure he took a ball to the warning track in his last AB.

[rawaction]

Wow congrats to him. That's a sick performance...

 

Last guy to hit 4 in a game was Mike Cameron for the White Sox, and I feel like that was a decade ago.

 

It was. Pretty sure he took a ball to the warning track in his last AB.

 

Didn't realize that both Cameron and Bret Boone went deep twice in the 1st inning. And they batted 2nd and 3rd, so they went back-to-back twice before the White Sox even got to bat.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Wow congrats to him. That's a sick performance...

 

Last guy to hit 4 in a game was Mike Cameron for the White Sox, and I feel like that was a decade ago.

 

It was. Pretty sure he took a ball to the warning track in his last AB.

To clarify, it was a decade ago. Also, he was not the last guy to do it, and he didn't do it for the White Sox.

[Guest]

Wow congrats to him. That's a sick performance...

 

Last guy to hit 4 in a game was Mike Cameron for the White Sox, and I feel like that was a decade ago.

 

It was. Pretty sure he took a ball to the warning track in his last AB.

To clarify, it was a decade ago. Also, he was not the last guy to do it, and he didn't do it for the White Sox.

 

Ha, yea. Didn't realize my first sentence was affirming so many wrong things.

[RammyFanny]

After watching Joyce sprain his ankle on a homerun, what would happen if someone did something crazy like tear up a knee on a swing and he couldn't walk?

[Little Slide Rooter]

After watching Joyce sprain his ankle on a homerun, what would happen if someone did something crazy like tear up a knee on a swing and he couldn't walk?

 

I see to think that something like that has happened in the past and a pinch runner is allowed.

[Derwood]

not only did he hit four 2-run HR, but Elvis Andrus was the guy on base all 4 times.

[SouthSideRyan]

After watching Joyce sprain his ankle on a homerun, what would happen if someone did something crazy like tear up a knee on a swing and he couldn't walk?

 

I see to think that something like that has happened in the past and a pinch runner is allowed.

 

What if a guy hits a sure double off the wall but breaks his leg coming out of the box? Does he still get 2nd base?

[Brian]

For some reason I think I heard somewhere that you can pinh run on a home run after the batter gets to first.

 

(some google research leads me to believe I'm thinking of seeing when Babe Ruth would get a pinch runner at first base on home runs... Maybe)

Edited May 10, 2012 by Brian

[El Duderino]

After watching Joyce sprain his ankle on a homerun, what would happen if someone did something crazy like tear up a knee on a swing and he couldn't walk?

 

I see to think that something like that has happened in the past and a pinch runner is allowed.

 

What if a guy hits a sure double off the wall but breaks his leg coming out of the box? Does he still get 2nd base?

 

i would guess he wouldn't get jack. he'd be out.