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Posted by Andy on September 6, 2007
- Before yesterday, Jake Peavy was 3-0 in 4 starts this season against Arizona, allowing 5 ER in 26.1 innings for a 1.71 ERA, with 8 walks and 45 (!!) strikeouts. Yesterday, he gave up 8 ER alone in just 4 innings.
- Carlos Pena set the record for RBIs in a game by a Devil Ray. He's already got the Tampa Bay record for HR in a season. With 13 RBIs, he'll have that season record too. Not bad for a guy who's been traded or released 5 times.
- The use of the Play Index by baseball journalists is becoming quite prevalent. Here's an example by Peter Abraham of the Journal News.
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This entry was posted on Thursday, September 6th, 2007 at 10:07 am and is filed under Box Scores, Game Finders, Season Finders, Splits. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
September 6th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
That's great that journalists are relying on the PI, and it sort of takes me back to a couple of years ago when I was wishing for something similar online.
See, I had this handheld baseball calculator (?) in the late 80's or early 90's, where you could type in any number of variables and get strange results. There were no game, event or streak finders - it was all for single seasons, blocks of seasons or entire careers - but if I remember correctly you could incorporate age, height, weight, year of birth or year of death and even subtract, divide or add totals to each other (ie., there was no official total bases stat on there, but you could say: "most H+2B+(3B*2)+(HR*3) year" and come up with the top 50 seasons).
Anyway, does anyone else remember this thing or know what it was called? When the PI came along, I scrapped my ideas to try and track it down, but I'd still like to find it somehow for nostalgia purposes.