"Strange but true feats of 2015..."

[yankeesince59]

...good read...example, Bryce Harper went an entire game without swinging at a single pitch but still managed to score 4 runs?


http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/14426800/mlb-strange-true-feats-2015

 

[Mattingly23NY]

...good read...example, Bryce Harper went an entire game without swinging at a single pitch but still managed to score 4 runs?


http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/14426800/mlb-strange-true-feats-2015

Excellent read, and nice find 59, thanks definitely worth the read, best fun interesting article I've read since the year ended. Alot of "Strange but true" feats, some I was unaware of, and some lent perspectives when I overlooked 'em.....

like- this, (and plenty other info in the article)

" Finally, speaking of MadBum, we'd like to thank him for all of this: (A) He outhomered Matt Holliday this year (5-4). (B) He pinch hit in back-to-back games and homered in back-to-back starts -- in the same week. (C) As our buddy Buster Olney pointed out, he not only was sent up to pinch hit against Aroldis Chapman but was the first player all year to fall behind Chapman, 0 and 2, yet wind up drawing a walk. And (D) he did something that Pablo Sandoval, Albert Pujols and Justin Upton have never done: hit a home run off Clayton Kershaw. But then came this postscript: Guess who had the longest at-bat against Bumgarner all year? Right you are. Clayton Kershaw (13 pitches).

 

[totus44]

Huh....nice read. Amazes me that people actually look for these things, lol!

 

[Mattingly23NY]

Huh....nice read. Amazes me that people actually look for these things, lol!

Whatcha' tryin' to say Tote....?

Nah, I get it, just bustin' your chops,

thank God you don't have chompers like a lot of old fks....."not even Polydent works free-falling at 15,000 feet,"... but then I only know from watching others.......doh-

 

[Rick2583]

Here's a few more unusual feats..............Scroll down to the piece on Bumgarner.

http://espn.go.com/blog/statsinfo/p...-review-of-the-most-unusual-mlb-stats-in-2015

 

[Yankeefan5545]

A painful strange but true fact: Cashman still has a job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mattingly23NY]

this is cool-

Although his two grand slams in 2014 were memorable enough, Madison Bumgarner cranked five more round-trippers this season, the most by any pitcher since Carlos Zambrano in 2006, and the most by a Giants hurler since Hal Schumaker (six) in 1934. Bumgarner had the Giants' first five pitcher home runs of the season, he got some help in September when four other pitchers each hit one. The Giants thus tied the major-league record with five different pitchers going yard (last done by the 2002 Dodgers).


As for this- don't let him use the phones, or go to the Horse Tracks....
if he makes an error he blatantly mishandles, or strikes out swatting at flies, do a secret investigation into his affairs.....

Jacoby Ellsbury: Twice awarded first base via catcher's interference as the Yankees' first batter of the game; first player to do that twice in a season since Pete Rose in 1969.