Friend of the VORG @BravesOptions alerted me to a fun factoid coming up in tomorrow’s Braves/Giants contest:
.@dianagram I know you’ve looked at Scrabble batteries but what about pitching match ups? Folty vs Shark https://t.co/CStowFAsVL
— The Notorious B.O.G. (@BravesOptions) May 29, 2016
Here are the top Scrabble scores of all time if you ignore the distribution in a regular English language North American set. Note how Javier Vazquez gets a lot of attention in these matchups.
| Date | vteam | hteam | VSP | HSP | VSCORE | HSCORE | TOTAL |
| 20100904 | TOR | NYA | Rzepczynski | Vazquez | 40 | 37 | 77 |
| 20100818 | TOR | OAK | Rzepczynski | Gonzalez | 40 | 27 | 67 |
| 20090424 | ATL | CIN | Vazquez | Volquez | 37 | 28 | 65 |
| 20080817 | CHA | OAK | Vazquez | Gonzalez | 37 | 27 | 64 |
| 20100420 | NYA | OAK | Vazquez | Gonzalez | 37 | 27 | 64 |
| 20100806 | BOS | NYA | Buchholz | Vazquez | 27 | 37 | 64 |
| 20110628 | FLO | OAK | Vazquez | Gonzalez | 37 | 27 | 64 |
| 20070719 | CHA | BOS | Vazquez | Matsuzaka | 37 | 24 | 61 |
| 20080829 | CHA | BOS | Vazquez | Matsuzaka | 37 | 24 | 61 |
| 20090826 | TBA | TOR | Kazmir | Rzepczynski | 21 | 40 | 61 |
| 20100813 | TOR | ANA | Rzepczynski | Kazmir | 40 | 21 | 61 |
If you want to be a stickler for the official tile distribution (ex. one Z in each set), then it DOES appear that Foltynewicz’s 31 points, when added to Samardzija’s 29, gives us an all-time record of 60 points in a pitching matchup!