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Month: August 2017

The 43-Inning Scoreless Streak

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Joe Posnanski

It is almost impossible, when you consider the whims of modern baseball, to go 43 consecutive innings without scoring a single run. The reason is obvious: SOMEONE will hit a home run. Someone. Anyone. This year, big league hitters will bash more home runs than ever before and, as a natural result, teams are on…

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The Curse of the Home Run Record

Posted on August 26, 2017 by Joe Posnanski

On September 30, 1927 — in front of an estimated 8,000 fans at Yankee Stadium — Babe Ruth came to the plate with his Yankees and the Washington Senators tied 2-2. Yankees shortstop Mark Koenig — the only one of the top four in that Yankees lineup NOT in the Hall of Fame — tripled,…

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Stuff Everyone Likes

Posted on August 25, 2017 by Joe Posnanski

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Hard Luck Losers

Posted on August 24, 2017 by Joe Posnanski

Rich Hill did something remarkable on Wednesday night. Well, he actually did a lot of remarkable things — he threw nine no-hit innings and, was it not for Logan Forsyth misplaying a ground ball it would likely have been nine perfect innings.* *We can not say FOR SURE that it would have been nine perfect…

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How inside-the-park homers can save us all

Posted on August 20, 2017August 20, 2017 by Joe Posnanski

As you probably know, we here at the JPT have little use for some of the ancient ways of baseball scorekeeping. We do not believe that pitchers single-handedly win games. We do not think a batting average that simply pretends walks do not happen is as rigorous as it might be. We do not consider a…

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Bye Bye Balboni

Posted on August 19, 2017August 20, 2017 by Joe Posnanski

Well, the time is upon us. Kansas City’s Mike Moustakas has 35 home runs which means he is on the verge of finally, finally, finally, finally breaking the most absurd record in baseball today. He — God willing — will soon break the Kansas City’s home run record of 36 … held by Steve Balboni…

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Something new at the ballpark

Posted on August 17, 2017August 17, 2017 by Joe Posnanski

Numerous people through the years have said some version of the following: “Every time you go to the ballpark, you will see something you’ve never seen before.” It’s a pretty trite thing to say, and it isn’t EXACTLY true … there are plenty of times you go to the ballpark and don’t see anything especially…

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What is wOBA missing?

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Joe Posnanski

Michael Schur and I did another PosCast, have a listen if you like, but the point here is that we began by discussing whether Twitter is, in total, a net positive or a net negative. There are many wonderful things about Twitter and the immediacy of it. And there’s a lot of lousy stuff too….

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Giancarlo

Posted on August 15, 2017August 15, 2017 by Joe Posnanski

People forget this, but there was a two-year or so period after Tiger Woods launched himself into golf’s stratosphere when he didn’t play legendary golf. This happened after he won the 1997 Masters by 77 shots or whatever it was, and everyone expected him to thoroughly and repeatedly obliterate the field. Oh, sure, he was…

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The Gift of Ichiro

Posted on August 10, 2017August 10, 2017 by Joe Posnanski

We have not shared many baseball memories. It’s no big deal. Elizabeth and I, we’ve had plenty of those father-daughter moments like when we went to see Hamilton, or when we watched the Godfather movies, or the countless times that we mumble Milton lines at each other from “Office Space.” “Thats’s not, no, not, notinmyjobdescription…

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