Re: Stats Gone Wild! Plus Triple-Play Bonus

On Mon, 12 May 2008 20:00:20 -0700, Blinky the Shark
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> wrote:

>
>Stats guys in the basebal booth rule.
>
>I'm watching the Angels and the White Sox.  Each team has a player in the
>game whose last name starts with "Q".  The Real Stats Guy came up with
>this: no two players whose names begin with "Q" have ever homered in the
>same major league game.
>
>BlinkyBonusPanel:  A Cleveland player got an unassisted triple play
today.
>The last one was performed in 2007.  I wonder if this indicates a trend,
>since in over a hundred years of major league ball today's was only the
>14th. :)  BonusBonus:  Cleveland also had the first two, in 1909 and
1920.
>They are the alpha and omega of unassisted triple plays; but had none in
>between.

The Stats guys must have sent it out over the national wire, because
the Cubs announcer mentioned the same thing tonight (about the
Cleveland triple plays).  

Here's the list.  (Obviously not including tonight's.)
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats8.shtml
 

From it, the years they occurred (going backwards) are:

2008
2007
2003
2000
1994
1992
1968
1927
1927
1925
1923
1923
1920
1909

It's quite astounding that only one occurred in the period from 1927
to 1992.    I'm completely at a loss to explain this, or why the
sudden increase in frequency since the 1990s.  Unless it's steroids.

-- 
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