It’s Saturday, October 12 – Game 5 of the ALDS pitting Detroit against Cleveland – and the Tigers have just used up the first three of their 27 allotted outs, leading to Steven Kwan leading off the first for Cleveland. Entering this do-or-die contest, Kwan has posted a .500/.556/.563 line […]
Collectively, the 20 most recent postseasons (2005-2024) have produced 85 examples of a starting pitcher finishing his work with at least seven innings and no runs allowed. Strolling through the list, one finds that Giants’ hurlers have the most such efforts, with 11. The Dodgers, Phillies and Tigers come next […]
There’s something extra special about a postseason home run: a big blast on the biggest of stages. Mazeroski and Carter won the World Series with one. Chambliss, Boone, Ordóñez, Ishikawa and Altuve sent their respective teams to the Fall Classic with one. Ruth (maybe) called one and Fisk desperately waved […]
On August 11 this year during a Sunday afternoon in the Bronx, Yankees outfielder Juan Soto clubbed his 29th and 30th dingers of the year. Since that multi-homer performance, I’ve been following New York’s box scores with an increased focus on Soto’s line, for I realized then that should Soto […]
Notes: This piece is only looking at position players – no pitchers are being considered for the various lists and ranks. All stats and ranks are through games played on September 10. Cast back to Wednesday, October 22, 2003: Game 4 of the World Series. It’s the bottom of […]
When the 2014 regular season shut down for the fall and winter, a comber through the game’s history books (or more relevantly, the magic of Baseball Reference) would have found that there were exactly 20 left-handed hurlers who had made at least one appearance in at least 20 campaigns. 10 […]
Since the American League joined its older brother to present Major League ballgames in 1901, the two have combined to produce 33 Triple Crown winners from the mound – masters of their sphere and art to such a degree that at season’s end, each had painted a triptych proclaiming league […]