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Dial M (7 times) for a Record

Friend of the VORG Zack Raab set out a request to Jayson Stark and I: .@dianagram/@jaysonst, since you love these wacky finds and I love seeing what you can do with them, ever seen this in a MLB lineup? 👇🤔 https://t.co/PowiFZ8hS0 — Zack Raab (@ZackRaab) June 20, 2017 … which referred to this tweet: @ESPNStatsInfo … Read moreDial M (7 times) for a Record

Pitching Appearances with More Ks than Outs

Last night, Craig Kimbrel got a four out save, and thanks to a wild pitch on a strikeout, managed to K five batters during his appearance. Followers of the VORG asked me if this was some sort of record for most Ks where the strikeouts exceeded the outs recorded. It turns out it wasn’t a … Read morePitching Appearances with More Ks than Outs

Longest Last Names by Position

Over at the Effectively Wild podcast group on Facebook, a hard-working soul manually put together a list of the longest last names in MLB history by position. Using the Lahman Baseball Database, this is the list I came up with: POS GAMES NAME LENGTH 1B 959 Doug Mientkiewicz 12 2B 510 Gene DeMontreville 13 SS … Read moreLongest Last Names by Position

Most Runs, Hits with Only Certain Types of Hits

Friend of the VORG Doug Kern tweeted this out early this morning:

That got me wondering what the records were for most hits and runs for a team in a game would be, based on each specific hit type or combination of hit types. First, here are the hit records. For example, the Dodgers set the record for most hits with all being singles when they amassed 22 on June 3, 1988 in a 13-5 win over Cincinnati.

HIT TYPE Date Tm Opp Rslt H 2B 3B HR
1B 6/3/1988 LAD CIN W 13-5 22 0 0 0
HIT TYPE Date Tm Opp Rslt H 2B 3B HR
1B, 2B 8/22/1917 BRO PIT W 6-5 28 3 0 0
HIT TYPE Date Tm Opp Rslt H 2B 3B HR
1B, 2B, 3B 7/29/1928 CLE NYY W 24-6 27 2 1 0
1B, 2B, 3B 8/5/1922 NYG CHC W 19-7 27 6 4 0
HIT TYPE Date Tm Opp Rslt H 2B 3B HR
1B, 2B, 3B, HR 7/1/1979 OAK TEX W 13-12 29 2 1 1
1B, 2B, 3B, HR 8/12/48 (2) CLE SLB W 26-3 29 5 1 4
HIT TYPE Date Tm Opp Rslt H 2B 3B HR
2B 8/18/1998 ATL SFG W 8-4 9 9 0 0
HIT TYPE Date Tm Opp Rslt H 2B 3B HR
2B, 3B 9/8/2014 NYM COL W 3-2 6 4 2 0
2B, 3B 8/5/2007 CHW DET W 3-1 6 5 1 0
HIT TYPE Date Tm Opp Rslt H 2B 3B HR
2B, HR 7/10/2010 DET MIN W 7-4 8 4 0 4
2B, HR 9/18/2002 STL COL W 8-5 8 3 0 5
HIT TYPE Date Tm Opp Rslt H 2B 3B HR
3B 5/5/1973 BAL CAL L 1-3 2 0 2 0
3B 5/2/1972 SFG NYM L 2-4 2 0 2 0
3B 4/19/1964 WSA KCA L 1-5 2 0 2 0
3B 6/23/63 (1) PHI NYM L 0-5 2 0 2 0
3B 4/20/51 (1) WSH NYY W 5-3 2 0 2 0
HIT TYPE Date Tm Opp Rslt H 2B 3B HR
3B, HR 4/2/2014 HOU NYY W 3-1 4 0 2 2
3B, HR 8/9/1999 BOS KCR L 2-5 4 0 2 2
3B, HR 9/14/1952 NYG STL L 4-14 4 0 2 2
HIT TYPE Date Tm Opp Rslt H 2B 3B HR
HR 6/24/1989 CLE TEX W 7-3 6 0 0 6

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Fun with Ryan Schimpf’s Stats

Friend of the VORG and ESPN SweetSpot Senior Writer David Schoenfield with some love for a wacky stat line: Ryan Schimpf is on pace to hit .156 with 41 home runs and 104 walks and for the love of the baseball gods I hope he keeps it up. — David Schoenfield (@dschoenfield) May 3, 2017 … Read moreFun with Ryan Schimpf’s Stats

When Your OBP is Double Your AVG

Its very early in the season, but we have no fewer than six batters, each with enough plate appearances to qualify for the batting title, whose on-base percentage is at least double their batting average: Name PA BB K AVG OBP OBP/AVG Russell Martin 39 8 13 .097 .282 2.91 Ryan Schimpf (*) 48 13 … Read moreWhen Your OBP is Double Your AVG

“Unoccupied” Single Season Totals Records - 2016 Update

Last week we detailed the 2016 update to the lowest career totals that no one is currently sitting on for various stats. Now its time to do the same for single season records. To find out, we exported the single season statistics from 1871-2016 for the nearly 17,000 players in baseball history listed via Fangraphs, … Read more“Unoccupied” Single Season Totals Records - 2016 Update

“Unoccupied” Career Totals Records - 2016 Update

Baseball is full of career records, with numbers that everyone can reference … 762, 511, 652, 4256. But what about the numbers that no player currently has? The VORG wanted to know what is the LOWEST career total that no one is currently sitting on. In other words and as an example, does no one … Read more“Unoccupied” Career Totals Records - 2016 Update

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