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Oct-12-16
 | | saffuna: Is 1920 considered a dead-ball or a live-ball year? Maybe a transition year. In any case, I suspect that during the dead ball era teams often had a lot of hits but few runs. True? Since there was little chance of a home run, pitchers wouldn't throw their hardest with nobody on base, so there would be more hits. Then they would bear down with runners in scoring position. I've read excerpts of "Pitching in a Pinch" which explain this philosophy. |
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Oct-12-16
 | | Phony Benoni: I've always here that 1920 was the beginning of the lively ball era, the impetus being the excitement created by Ruth's record total of 29 home runs in 1919. Averages and home urns were up significantly, but Ruth with 54 home runs still outhomered every other team in the majors except for the Phillies. Things really heated up in 1921. That was after the Black Sox scandal broke openly at the end of 1920, providing more impetus for putting more positive excitement into the game. |
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Oct-12-16
| | saffuna: Bill James suggests that the beaning death of Ray Chapman may have had something to do with the increased home runs. The ball which killed him, in the late afternoon, was dirty, and people thought he hadn't seen it well. So they began to introduce new balls into the game more often. |
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Oct-12-16
| | Phony Benoni: There's also the outlawing of the spitball, with its erratic breaks after 1920. Obviously, there were a number of factors leading in the same direction that just happened to occur at the same time. |
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Oct-12-16
 | | OhioChessFan: Anyone who saw the Eric Gregg game will never forget it. Those clips don't do justice to how bad it was. |
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| Oct-12-16 | | Travis Bickle: <Phony Benoni: There's also the outlawing of the spitball, with its erratic breaks after 1920.> Hey Mr Benoni, did Gaylord Perry play in 1920? Because if I remember correctly he used to grease the ball up pretty good.. ; P |
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| Oct-12-16 | | Travis Bickle: <OhioChessFan: Anyone who saw the Eric Gregg game will never forget it.> Yo Elvis, Eric Gregg had a big colossal azz on him!! You could compare it to a Hippo!! see below... http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net... |
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Oct-12-16
| | saffuna: I think the umpires seem to be a bit slimmer, at least not grossly obese, ever since John McSherry died of a heart attack during a game. |
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Oct-12-16
| | saffuna: How strange to have no baseball games on a mid-October day. Cubs look like a team of destiny to me, sure to at least reach the World Series. |
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Oct-13-16
| | saffuna: The original Ted Williams shift: http://i2.wp.com/espnfivethirtyeigh... Notice the leftfielder is basically playing a deep shortstop. |
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Oct-13-16
 | | WannaBe: Some Useless Information that I'm "Borrowing" from ESPN. Before the start of LAD/WAS game 5: <The last time a baseball team in Washington won a postseason series was when the Senators beat the New York Giants in Game 7 of the 1924 World Series in the nation's capital.> |
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Oct-13-16
| | WannaBe: Thank you Doug:
<Doug Padilla
ESPN Staff Writer
If 20-year-old Julio Urias enters Game 5 for the Dodgers tonight, he will become the youngest MLB pitcher in a playoff game since Don Gullett and Bert Blyleven pitched in the 1970 postseason at age 19.> I did not know, that Bert went to high school in Garden Grove, next door to Long Beach. Here's the game where Bert came in to relieve J. Kaat: http://www.baseball-reference.com/b... (The game is kinda 'funny' because it's pre DH, you see Palmer went 1-4 with a run scored, and he did not strike out once in that game!) Here's the game where Gullett, at 19 years old, pitched 3 1/3 inning relief and got the save in a 3-1 Cincinnati victory. http://www.baseball-reference.com/b... (Seriously, how many managers today have the cajones to leave a 19 years old in there, for 3 1/3 innings?????) |
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Oct-13-16
| | WannaBe: Wow, I'm just finding gold today:
<As the Elias Sports Bureau computed Tuesday, the Cubs were the 828th team in history to find itself coming to bat, in the ninth inning or later, trailing by three runs in a postseason game. Only three of those teams had found a way to win. (It’s still incomprehensible, by the way, that all three did it in the same week in 1986. But that’s a whole different blog post for another day.) > http://www.espn.com/blog/jayson-sta... '86, *snaps finger*, '86... Gotta go back to baseball-reference and look up that year's play-offs. |
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| Oct-13-16 | | Travis Bickle: So Phony are you pulling for The Cubs? I don't want to pressure you but all these celebs are big time Cubs Fans! ; P http://www.ranker.com/list/celebrit... & even even these guys!
http://www.shadesdaddyblog.com/wp-c... |
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Oct-13-16
| | WannaBe: 1986. Ugh, no wonder I don't want to remember it, California Angels and BoSox in ALCS, Astros and NY Metropolitans in the NLCS. In game 4, Angels scored 3 runs bottom 9th, and then 1 more in the eleventh to win 4-3 Game 5, BoSox scored 4 top 9th to go ahead by one, Angels scored bottom 9 to tie, but lost in 11 innings. Donnie Moore later committed suicide. NLCS Game 6, Mets scored 3 runs top 9th to force extra innings, then 14th both teams scored a run. Top 16th Mets scored three runs, bottom of the frame, Houston scored twice. These must the 3 games that Jayson referred to. |
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Oct-13-16
| | saffuna: Corey Seager was the Dodgers best hitter this year, and their best power hitter. Yet he bats second. I think Roberts thinks in traditional images and wants to hit his middle infielders at the top of the lineup, and have his players at the traditional power spots (3b, 1b) hit third and fourth. |
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Oct-13-16
| | Phony Benoni: Well, Travis, I gotta root for the Cubs. I've been on the beer wagon so many years it's not use jumping off now. But a thought just hit me today. Cubs: last won in 1908. Taft (R) won Presidential election. Nationals/Expos have never won a World Series. Washington Senators last won in 1924. Coolidge (R) won Presidential election. Indians last won the World Seires in1948. Truman (D) won Presidential election, as long as you didn't read the Chicago Tribuen. Dodgers last won the World Series in 1988. Bush 41 (R) won Presidential election. Blue Jays last won the World Series in 1993. Darn it. But they also won in 1992. Clinton (D) won Presidential election. We'll see what happens tonight before trying to interpret this. |
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Oct-13-16
| | WannaBe: LAD finally managed to get that 0 H out of the way... |
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Oct-13-16
| | WannaBe: Did not know this, J. Urias have 6 pick offs, tied for lead. Considering that he pretty much only pitched 1/3 of a season. Wow!! He just picked off another one. Excellent move to first. |
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Oct-13-16
| | WannaBe: "And he's out from me to you." -- V. Scully |
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Oct-13-16
| | WannaBe: Goooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaal!!!! |
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Oct-13-16
| | WannaBe: Bad call by Roberts for that third bunt attempt. Ugh!! |
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Oct-13-16
| | WannaBe: Yes, yes, yes, yes!!!! |
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Oct-13-16
| | WannaBe: That's two more runs!!!! You red headed, bearded Viking Turner! |
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Oct-13-16
| | WannaBe: Sheet, sheet, sheet!!! |
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