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Didn't the Giants manager just say "This boat has too many holes in it"?
Not really a rallying cry, is it? Fire Bochy and bring in Art Howe who can ramp up the club's competitive ferocity with one of his numerous inspirational bon mots such as "We've got some hitters here, we're gonna swing the bats."
I don't know how to look this up, but Cardinal Rob Johnson might be the first roster catcher ever to hit a triple in is first MLB appearance. With a memorable name like that, who will forget it?
I don't know how to look this up, but Cardinal Rob Johnson might be the first roster catcher ever to hit a triple in is first MLB appearance. With a memorable name like that, who will forget it?
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Levi Meyerle of the Philadelphia Athletics is credited with baseball's first triple, hit on April 24, 1876, which goes to show that there was in fact baseball before Matt Wieters.
After Wieters tripled for his first major league hit, some O's fans wondered how many other players have done the same thing. Roch Kubatko provided an answer - at least among catchers - on Tuesday:
"Since 1954, only five catchers have tripled for their first major league hit: Matt Wieters on Saturday vs. Detroit, the Tigers' Dane Sardinha on June 29, 2008, San Francisco's Yorvit Torrealba on Sept. 5, 2001, Toronto's Pat Borders on April 6, 1988 and the White Sox's Chuck Lindstrom on Sept. 28, 1958."
Since 1954, only five catchers have tripled for their first major league hit:
Now Johnson makes six....at least since 1954.
That is a list of catchers who tripled as their first hit, not (necessarily) in first AB.
In the case of Sardinha, his triple came five years after his first hitless plate appearance in the majors. He broke in with the Reds (wearing number 87) in 2003 and went hitless in his only game, got into another game in 2005 and went hitless again, and got another shot in 2008 with Detroit, finally getting his first hit in his 12th MLB AB..
Torrealba's came in his first AB. Borders was also in his first PA. Wieters went 0/4 in his first game, and tripled in his second.
Lindstrom played only five inninge in MLB, with two plate appearances. He walked, then hit a triple, then went home. So it was his first (and last) AB, but not first PA.
The A's have just completed their sixth straight series win by beating the Red Sox in extra innings, three of them being the only teams in the league with a better record than they. They're also doing it with last year's two best hitters being completely ineffective thus far.
If the Cubs had wisely walked Molina in the 9th last night (he hit a 3-run homer), the Cardinals would have tied the NL record with 18 left on base in a 9 inning game. It's been done 9 times before, three of them by the Cardinals. The most bizarre was in 1944, when they got 21 hits and 14 walks, and left 18 on base while also scoring 18 runs, scoring in every inning but one. The MLB record for LOB is 20, done by the 1956 world champion Yankees in a 13-7 loss to the Red Sox. That would leave a total of only seven UNoccupied bases at the ends of innings..
The A's have just completed their sixth straight series win by beating the Red Sox in extra innings, three of them being the only teams in the league with a better record than they. They're also doing it with last year's two best hitters being completely ineffective thus far.
Good for the A's. I'm a Yankees fan but I root for the A's whenever they're not playing New York
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