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Happy Birthday SOTD

Posted by Andy on June 5, 2008

Today is the first birthday of this blog. There have been 642 posts and a whole lot of comments.

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9 Responses to “Happy Birthday SOTD”

  1. WBSample Says:
    June 5th, 2008 at 11:25 am

    I noticed last night that Joe Mauer of the Twins drove in 2 runs on a single sacrifice fly; how common is such an event?

  2. mikeyjax Says:
    June 5th, 2008 at 11:39 am

    even though I feel safe in saying this shouldn't have been asked here - I will give a reply - ESPN says that the Twins say the last time this was done was....05/08/2001 CIN V ARI - When you look at the box though, you'll see that something else stands out big time about that game which makes the 2 R SF appear a little less impressive.

  3. Andy Says:
    June 5th, 2008 at 3:19 pm

    Here's the game:

    http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ARI/ARI200105080.shtml

    RJ had 20 Ks.

  4. gerry Says:
    June 5th, 2008 at 11:18 pm

    Happy birthday, SOTD, and many happy returns.

  5. Raphy Says:
    June 5th, 2008 at 11:19 pm

    Prior to that it happened in 1997 and 1996.

    On a related note: Here is the last player to get a sacrifice fly even though he didn't bat with a runner on 3rd.
    http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/SD65

  6. Raphy Says:
    June 5th, 2008 at 11:32 pm

    I wonder if this is a mistake.
    http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/aGqP

    Did Giambi actually knock in Velarde from first?
    Or did Velarde actually advance in the previous at-bat on the play at the plate?

    Anybody know?

  7. statboy Says:
    June 6th, 2008 at 1:26 pm

    Raphy,
    The fielder was Bernie Williams, so it wouldn't surprise me if the runner scored from first on his arm! ;-) There must either be an error in the box score, or maybe Bernie was injured on the play (but he stayed in the game).

  8. Johnny Twisto Says:
    June 8th, 2008 at 11:54 pm

    test

  9. Johnny Twisto Says:
    June 8th, 2008 at 11:56 pm

    There's a mistake in the game log. After singling, Velarde advanced to 2nd on the throw home, and then to 3rd when Posada fought with Phillips after their collision.

    I tried posting this a few times but it won't show up for some reason. I wonder if it has something to do with my trying to paste a link. I am leaving the link out, but you can look up the NY Times game story for 8/12/99.

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