Comments on: May 6th – Open Thread

By: DoubleDiamond

DoubleDiamond — Fri, 07 May 2010 22:31:00 +0000

I know that the Pirates have lost at least one road game in which they scored 11 runs in this time period. That was this game:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PHI/PHI198906080.shtml

After they scored 10 in the top of the first, announcer Jim Rooker said that he'd walk back to Pittsburgh if the Pirates lost that game. He didn't walk home then, but he did a charity fundraising walk across the state after the season ended. Steve Jeltz hit only 5 home runs in his career, but 2 came in this game - one from each side of the plate. I think the only other Phillie switch hitter who has done this was another reserve middle infielder, Tomas Perez in 2001.

By: Raphy

Raphy — Fri, 07 May 2010 04:50:53 +0000

Its only been 84 games, but the Mets have never lost at home when scoring 11 runs.

By: Johnny Twisto

Johnny Twisto — Fri, 07 May 2010 04:19:31 +0000

It's just hard to understand why they've struggled so much when they know they just need to score 11 at home to win.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 07 May 2010 04:07:03 +0000

The Pirates won tonight by the score of 11-1
It marked the 119th straight game won by the Pirates when scoring 11+ runs at home.
Their last loss when scoring 11+ at home was on May 30, 1970 (a 13-11 loss vs the Giants).

The 119 game winning streak is the longest current streak in baseball and the 2nd longest since 1952...behind only the Cardinals (non active) streak of 167 games

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:44:54 +0000

2 consecutive games for Carl Pavano going 8 innings and getting no run support, losing 3-0 last week, 2-0 tonight.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 07 May 2010 01:33:46 +0000

You're right Raphy. The way Clippard was pitching I thought one more run was going to score.

By: Raphy

Raphy — Fri, 07 May 2010 01:22:41 +0000

Olsen can't lose. The inning ended tied.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 07 May 2010 01:19:34 +0000

Olsen blew the No-Hitter and now he's on the hook for the loss. Any idea where you could find how many pitchers have taken a no-hitter, perfect game or shut-out into the 8th and then ended up losing the game?

By: Raphy

Raphy — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:49:52 +0000

Matt Cain just gave up a hit. However, the 2 no hitters that were going on at the same time reminded me of June 29th 1990 when Fernando Valenzuela and Dave Stewart both threw no-hitters.

By: Raphy

Raphy — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:43:52 +0000

Scott Olsen is working on a no-hitter. You can check out the best starts of his career here.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/5822