Re: Stats Gone Wild! Plus Triple-Play Bonus

Blinky the Shark (no.spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:

> 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. 
> 
> 

And while we're at it, that 1968 UTP was performed by Wa****ngton 
Senator Ron Hansen. Hansen is now a scout for the Yankees and was at 
the park to observe this latest.

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