Toronto Blue Jays’ rookie outfielder Lourdes Gurriel is in the midst of an amazing streak. Gurriel, with all of 38 games of experience in the Majors, has an 11-game hit streak, and has collected at least two hits in every one of those games. In baseball history, this is only the seventh such streak of … Read more
The Red Sox and Yankees are making a mockery of the American League East, with a healthy double-digit games lead over third place. As of the end of Saturday’s action, the Sox and Bronx Bombers have a combined winning percentage of .675 (129-62 overall record between the two teams). That would be good enough for … Read more
On tonight’s Mets broadcast, Gary Cohen mentioned that the Nationals currently feature the National League leader in wins (Max Scherzer, with 12) and the National League leader in losses (Tanner Roark, with 11). He later noted that the last team to have such a distinction at the end of the season was the 1988 Minnesota … Read more
Last year, Major League Baseball set an all-time record when 33.5% of all plate appearances ended in a walk, strikeout or homers (the “three true outcomes“). Here at the VORG, monitoring “TTO” is one of our pet projects. Each month this season, we’ll be checking on the assault on the TTO record, both on the … Read more