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Way back on Opening Day, Ramon Hernandez posted what stands as the highest single WPA performance so far in 2011. With the Reds down by 2 with 2 outs in the 9th inning, Hernandez hit a walk-off 3-run homer to increase his team's Win Probability from 9% to 100%.
The last time a catcher had a higher single-game WPA total was in 2008, when Kurt Suzuki posted 0.941 WPA on 3 different run-scoring hits including a walk-off double in the 11th inning.
The last time a catcher had the highest single-game WPA in a season was in 2003, when Brandon Inge posted a whopping 1.113 while batting 8th! He had two different high WPA events in that game--a tie-breaking single in the 5th off Greg Jones (+0.14) and a 2-HR walk-off homer in the bottom of the 9th off Troy Percival (+0.90).
Danny Moskos of the Pirates has gotten into 9 games for the Pirates in this, his rookie season. So far, he's allowed only 3 hits and 4 walks(2 intentional) in 8 innings, and has also stranded all 6 runners he inherited. He hasn't allowed an earned run. He has, however, allowed an unearned run thanks to a batter who reached via an error and later scored on a wild pitch by Daniel McCutchen.
White Sox 3, Mariners 1: In a battle of the 6-and-2 phenom Michael Pineda against the 0-and-8 veteran, John Danks finally broke into the win column in his 12th start, scattering 7 singles and a walk over 7.1 crafty innings [copyright: Southpaws, Inc.] and allowing just an unearned run. Seattle got only 3 AB with a man in scoring position and cashed one. Pineda was almost as smooth, yielding 2 runs on 5 hits over 7 IP, but was touched for Paul Konerko's 13th HR in the 4th and a 2-out RBI single by Gordon Beckham, who fouled off 3 two-strike pitches before delivering what would prove the decisive run.
After months of technical difficulties, we're happy to say that the Oracle of Baseball is once more operational.
For those who don't remember it, the Oracle is a tool that allows you to find connections between any two major league players via teammates. (As an example, here is the shortest possible chain of teammates between Joe Tinker and Starlin Castro.)
For more information about the Oracle, click here. Thanks for your patience as we worked to get the Oracle up and running again.
