Category Archives: factoids

He’s batting Cleanup?

Posted on 22 May, 2013 by Diane

Cleanup hitters . . . generally your most powerful hitters.  Baseball history (and the Hall of Fame) is full of legendary cleanup hitters.  Here are the players with most games batting cleanup in their careers: Player Games Started Eddie Murray … Continue reading →

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Intentionally Walking the Pitcher?

Posted on 12 May, 2013 by Diane

Last Monday night, HighHeatStats tweeted the following: High Heat Stats ‏@HighHeatStats  Boxscore Trivia (difficulty 4 out of 5): what happened most recently in this 1995 game? http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/HOU/HOU199507250.shtml … In attempting to answer the question, I misread the boxscore and this conversation … Continue reading →

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Dodgers Can’t Bring Them Home

Posted on 6 May, 2013 by Diane

The L.A. Dodgers have been having a hellacious time driving in baserunners this season. Going into Monday night’s action, they are tied for sixth in the Majors with a .335 team OBP.  However, they are next to last in runs per … Continue reading →

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Choo Down with HBP? Who’s Down with HBP?

Posted on 23 April, 2013 by Diane

Coming into the 2013 season, Reds outfield Shin-Soo Choo had 2,960 plate appearances, and had been hit by a pitch in 55 of them (one HBP every 54 PAs).  This season, through Monday night’s action, for whatever reason, Choo has … Continue reading →

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The Shortest (Named) Batteries of All-Time

Posted on 10 April, 2013 by Diane

Tuesday night saw another instance of a Dillon GEE – Cliff LEE pitching matchup, the brevity of their last names having been written about before.  In the midst of (re)publicizing that post to the Twitterverse, one of my followers noted: … Continue reading →

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Happy Pi Day 2013!

Posted on 14 March, 2013 by Diane

                If you’ve been reading the VORG for a while, you know that our favorite day of the year, aside from Opening Day, would be Pi Day.  Pi Day (3.14) celebrates the magic and … Continue reading →

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Ladies and Gentlemen . . . “U3″

Posted on 25 January, 2013 by Diane

It started, as it so often innocently does, with a tweet.  In this case, it came a few days ago from a Braves fan and follower of the VORG: Steve Simonsen ‏@simonsen77 “@TomahawkTalk: If Braves get J Upton, will be … Continue reading →

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