Re: Stats Gone Wild! Plus Triple-Play Bonus

M C Hamster wrote:

> On Mon, 12 May 2008 20:00:20 -0700, Blinky the Shark
> <no.spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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).

I got the the triple-play item from UPI online.
 
> 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.

Yeah, that's an amazing hole in the middle of the list, after seven in the
18-year span after the first one.  The 1968-1992 gap is noticeable, too.


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