VORG favorite Jayson Stark tweeted the following recently: This #RedSox-#Yankees series isn’t just epic. It’s historic. According to it’s the first time two teams with this good a win pct have met this late in a season since 9/2/54! That was #Yankees-#Indians. Wow — Jayson Stark June 29, 2018 … which got me … Read more
Andrew Baggarly was watching the Giants play this past Thursday, and stumbled upon this factoid: Austin Jackson lines out in his first at-bat of the spring. I actually spent 20 minutes on this, and could not find another MLB player whose name is two state capitals. — Andrew Baggarly March 1, 2018 . . … Read more
As noted by Jayson Stark and others, yesterday’s Twins/Angels game saw a nearly identical set of starting pitcher lines: Min-Angels starters Thurs: Mejia 6+ IP 5 H 1 R 1 ER 2 BB 1 HR 84 pitches 51 strikes Meyer 6+ IP 5 H 1 R 1 ER 2 BB 1 HR 84 pitches … Read more
Jayson Stark issued an alert …. Another project for!!! Jayson Stark May 5, 2017 which referenced THIS tweet …. What’s the biggest letter difference between a pitcher and hitter ever? Zack Raab May 5, 2017 and some folks chimed in with … Read more
From the Twitterverse on Thursday. It started innocently enough:
… which led to:
To which Jayson Stark replied:
So, using the Retrosheet game logs, it turns out that the same team has faced two different pitchers with the same last name in consecutive games nearly 200 times between 1914 and 2015! Of course there are brother combinations in there, like the Perrys, Niekros and Deans, but there are quite a few more without a familial link. Here they are, in team-by-team order:
Jayson Stark posed this question this morning: Fun question for my favorite Useless Infomaniacs: It’s Miley vs Smyly tonight. Got any other great rhyme-zone matchups from yesteryear? Go! — Jayson Stark May 10, 2016 This is right up the VORG’s alley. With the Retrosheet gamelogs accessed, I compiled a list. This list is NOT … Read more
As the baseball world awaited the announcement of this year’s Cy Young winners, this conversation took place on Twitter (excerpted): Jesse Spector Fun fact I discovered that will be part of an upcoming SN feature: Bartolo Colon is listed at 265 pounds, and had a 2.65 ERA this year. CJ Nitkowski Get … Read more
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 “If Braves get J Upton, will be 1st team anywhere to have 3 U’s(Uptons, Uggla), right?” This is up ‘s alley … Read more