Opening Day Features at Baseball-Reference
Posted by Neil Paine on April 3, 2010
In honor of Sunday and Monday, the greatest days of the year, here are some Opening Day features we have here at B-R:
- Franchise Opening-Day Starters (1952-2010)
- Batting and pitching game finders can be set to search "In team's first x games":
- Example 1: Most HR in team's 1st game of the season
- Example 2: Highest Game Score in team's 1st game of the season
- Use streak finders to look for the longest streaks to open the season:
- Game Previews
Give them a try, and enjoy baseball's return.
April 4th, 2010 at 8:25 am
[...] one is a lot of fun. A huge hat tip to Neil Paine for the [...]
April 5th, 2010 at 7:49 am
I was looking at the Cardinals' lineups, and noticed they had the exact same lineup in 1967 and 1968. Wise move by Red Schoendienst. They ran away with the pennant in both years. Then came the seventies: Joe Hague at first base three years in a row. Ted Sizemore and Ray Busse at shortstop! Mr. Baseball, Bob Uecker was the opening day catcher two years in a row in the sixties.
April 5th, 2010 at 10:09 am
It'll be interesting to see where Bob Feller's 1940 opening-day no-hitter ranks on the Game Score list.
April 5th, 2010 at 10:23 am
How can Bob Feller's doble cero no be included? April 16, 1940. Can you explain, please?
April 5th, 2010 at 10:28 am
1940-1951 gamelogs are not in the database.
April 5th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Feller's game score was 90.
http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1940/B04160CHA1940.htm
April 6th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Most strikeouts by an Opening Day starter: Camilo Pascual, Washington, 1960. I would not have guessed that.
Pascual beat Boston, 10-1. The only run he allowed was a solo homer by Ted Williams, entering the last season of his career. (The '60 Senators were also entering the last season of their "career" in Washington.) Williams was one of only two batters in the Boston lineup whom Pascual did not whiff.