Looks likes baseball's on the verge of having one of it's most cherished records shattered.  In 1998 Scott Aldred appeared in 48 games and ended with a record of 0-0.  That mark of 48 games without a decision has stood lo these many years, as the countless eons have passed by since then.  However, as you can see, Trever Miller's on the verge of shattering this puppy.

No, no one cares about this record.  But jeepers how often does any record get crushed by over 50%?!?!?

Thanks to whoever it was on baseball think factory that pointed this out.

Here's the all-time career leaders, if you're curious.

After last night's crazy Phillies-Cardinals game, this year Jimmy Rollins has 28 HR, 36 doubles, 36 stolen bases, and 18 triples. That means he needs just 2 more triples to join the 3-member 20/20/20/20 club, which Curtis Granderson also joined this year.

If he gets to 20 triples, that means 2 players will have 20+ triples this year. Guess when the last time was that happened? Hit the jump to see.

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I was just looking at Derek Jeter's 2007 RBI, to date, when the score is tied, via Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Batter Events for Jeter.  And, I noticed that three times this year Derek broke-up a tie score against the Sox, late in the game:

The 7th inning on June 2nd against Joel Pineiro
The 5th inning of August 28th against Daisuke Matsuzaka
The 8th inning of September 16th against Curt Schilling

Each time, it was a homer from Jeter that broke the tie.

This made me wonder: Since 1957, which Yankees SS have hit the most homers against the Red Sox? Thanks to B-R.com's PI Gamelog Finder, here's the answer:

                   Games Link to Individual Games 

+-----------------+-----+-------------------------+ 

Derek Jeter          19 Ind. Games  

Tony Kubek           11 Ind. Games  

Tom Tresh             4 Ind. Games 

Gil McDougald         3 Ind. Games 

Bucky Dent            3 Ind. Games                  

Gene Michael          2 Ind. Games  

Jim Mason             2 Ind. Games                  

Randy Velarde         1 Ind. Games                  

Fred Stanley          1 Ind. Games                  

Roy Smalley           1 Ind. Games                  

Rafael Santana        1 Ind. Games                  

Jerry Kenney          1 Ind. Games                  

Alvaro Espinoza       1 Ind. Games                  

Jerry Coleman         1 Ind. Games                  

Games found: 51.
Pretty soon, Jeter's going to need a fancy middle name in Boston - like the one that Red Sox Nation gave to Bucky Dent.

			

Here's a very simple search: PI Post Season Pitching Even Finder for plate appearances.

Click here to see the results.

Just on that main page, two interesting things that stick out are that Tom Glavine has had the most plate appearances against, since 1903, and that Yankee Stadium has been BY FAR the site of the most plate appearances, at more than double the second-place location, Fenway Park.

If you click on Yankee Stadium and get the report, you can see which visiting teams had the most plate appearances at that arena: The Brooklyn Dodgers.

In honor of the lackluster season the Giants are having, here are the worst seasons ever by any of their pitchers who qualified for the ERA title.  I'm using ERA+ as shorthand for worst ever.  Works for me.

Maybe it's not fair as they've actually had good starting pitching this year, but I was curious, so I looked.

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An ERA+ of 200 or better basically means an ERA that was at most half of the league average, where the league average ERA has been adjusted to that pitcher's home ballpark.

Not too many pitchers have ever done it in a full season where they qualified for the ERA title. The full list, quite interesting, is after the jump.

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Six batters, since 1957, have more than one 5 BB games in their career:

                   Games Link to Individual Games 
+-----------------+-----+-------------------------+ 
Barry Bonds           3 Ind. Games 
Albie Pearson         2 Ind. Games 
Dale Murphy           2 Ind. Games 
Rickey Henderson      2 Ind. Games 
Dick Allen            2 Ind. Games 
Hank Aaron            2 Ind. Games

Albie Pearson?  I never would have guessed that one.  Thanks to Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Batting Game Finder for the answer.

PI subscribers and non-subscribers alike can try to find out who had the following season, although it's obviously pretty easy if you have a PI subscription.

  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP 
+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
151  565   68  135  25  1  19   75   0  1  50 117  .239  .300  .388   93  219   0   5   0   1  19

Once you figure out who had this season, then try to figure out what's interesting about it.

A few notes on some of the Red Sox starters:

• Tim Wakefield just had his worst game ever against Tampa Bay (I mean worst game against TBD specifically, not worst game in his career.) And that's saying something, because prior to that game, he was 19-2 against them, with a 2.72 ERA in 188.1 innings. Looking at his career splits, he's got far better numbers against Tampa Bay than against any other team (minimum 10 starts,) although he's got nice numbers against Kansas City, Milwaukee, and Toronto. What active pitchers have more wins against specific franchises....anybody know?
• Looking at pitchers in 2007 with at least 10 wins, 10 losses, and an ERA over 4.00, we find two BoSox starters: Wakefield and Daisuke Matsuzaka. Overall, it's not a very impressive list, with the exception of Zambrano, who has had a strange season. It makes one wonder if Matsuzaka has topped out already in his major league career. (I swear, I wrote this before Steve posted something very similar this morning.)
• Fenway Park hasn't been very kind to Josh Beckett since he joined Boston, but then again it hasn't been kind to very many pitchers over the last 100 years. Beckett's success this year is quite probably for real, as it's his road numbers that have vastly improved. Last year on the road, he had a 5.21 ERA with 24 HR in 95 innings. This year, it's 2.23 with 7 HR in 84.2 innings. Odds are that he'll be somewhere in the middle next year, which will still make for a very good season.
• Curt Schilling currently has the 35th best ERA+ for a pitcher 40 or over making at least 20 starts. And he currently has the 51st best WHIP for the same criteria. There was so much talk in spring training about him wanting a contract extension. He's certainly pitched well enough (although maybe not often enough) to get plenty of interest as a free agent this winter.