During last night’s Mets TV broadcast, it was mentioned that New York’s starting pitcher (Jacob deGrom) and catcher (Devin Mesoraco) shared the exact same birthday (6/19/1988). Here are all the prior games (through 2017) in which that has happened (note that the last occurrence prior to 2018 was way back in 1998): date vteam hteam … Read more
Friend of the VORG Doug Kern alerted me to the following: Just noticed the Yankee game had a 6-run inning, a 5-run inning, a 4-, a 3-, a 2-, and of course a 1-. This feels like a special. ? — Doug Kern May 24, 2018 To see if this “sequence” of runs … Read more
Late in Monday night’s 2-0 Mets victory over Miami, the Mets’ announcers mentioned that New York was using its sixth pitcher of the evening. Now generally speaking, nine-inning shutouts SHOULD require fewer pitchers than games where a team gives up some runs. So the six-pitcher shutout got the VORG wondering if the explosion in relief … Read more
MLB Advanced Media stats guru Cory Schwartz tweeted out this gem: Shohei Ohtani has made 4-of-6 starts (67%) on Sundays this year; since MLB.COM started in 2001, only six SP’s have started 10+ games in a season w/ 50%+ of them on the same day of the week; last was Yusmeiro Petit, who made 6-of-10 … Read more
Today is Thanksgiving, so I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the following people/entities for making my baseball blogging world a better place (in no particular order): Baseball Prospectus: The folks I followed (Kahrl, Jaffe, Goldstein, Lindbergh, Sheehan, Goldman) are gone, but they continue to find great writers/analysts. From prospect talk to fantasy baseball … Read more
At the seventh annual Saberseminar this past weekend at Boston University, attendees were entertained and informed by the event’s emcee, Chicago White Sox play-by-play announcer Jason Benetti. Periodcally, Benetti would make note of a “Recycled Battery” receptacle in the lecture hall. He asked if anyone had extra batteries to dispose of, and then started asking … Read more
Here is a new and improved version of the list of those starting pitching matchups whose first names are actual cities in the state in which the game is being played. This list is for games from 1961-2016, and excludes games in Montreal and Toronto. date vteam hteam hstate vis sp home sp 19620708 CHA … Read more
As so often is the case with a VORG topic, it started with a single tweet: Hey wi Austin Pruitt starting opposite Dallas Keuchel in TX – can you recall 2 SP named after cities meeting in that state — Neil Solondz August 3, 2017 To which my hero Jayson Stark replied: How … Read more