I know none of you care but ........ (the Baseball thread)

[VillaZogmariner]

So what is the difference then between a no-hitter and a perfect game?

[Comrade Blitz]

So what is the difference then between a no-hitter and a perfect game?

In a perfect game no batter reaches base at all - 27 at bats, 27 outs. No hits, walks, errors etc

In a no hitter the pitcher could give up a walk or hit-by-pitch,  or a batter could reach base on an error.

[pmarachi]

cpngrats tp Arod on his 600


However, with the whole roid era, I don't think these things can possibly mean as much as they should.

[VillaZogmariner]

Thanks for the explanation.

[Comrade Blitz]

At Bats per Home Run leaders

[UK Redsox]

At Bats per Home Run leaders

A top 15 of Hall of Famers, possible Hall of Famers*, drug cheats and............. Russell Branyan

Russell Branyan ????????????????


(* I think that Howard and Dunn have an outside chance of making the HOF)

PS - http://www.baseball-reference.com/ is the D's B's for baseball stats

for baseball news its http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/newsstand/

[UK Redsox]

Youk will have surgery on his hand today, so that's him out for the season.

If the Sox make the playoffs now it'll be an all-time great comeback

[UK Redsox]

Candidate for the greatest catch ever. From the Japanese leagues, earlier this week

[pmarachi]

Yanks/Sox weekend...

I bet anything that now that the sox are down and out, the yanks drop 3...


And I won't be going to any of the games.

[UK Redsox]

Bo doesn't know chivalry

Methinks he won't be getting any for a while !!


Also, Sox 2, Highlanders 2 over the weekend

[Comrade Blitz]

Sacking Milt Thompson and acquiring Oswalt seems to have worked for the Phils. Now they just need to get (and stay) healthy for the pennant-run.

[Comrade Blitz]

There are 3 types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, & those who wonder what happens. -Tommy Lasorda

[UK Redsox]

Chipper Jones has torn his ACL and is out for the rest of the season.

He'd already hinted at retiring after this year, so this could be it.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5458167

Start working on your Hall of Fame speech Larry

[UK Redsox]

The Washington Nati(o)nals sign 17 year old phenom Bryce Harper for $9.9m

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5468993

[UK Redsox]

Farewell to Britain's greatest Baseball player, Glasgow born Bobby Thomson dead at 86



In 1951 Thomson hitting the home run that one the National League title for the New York Giants in a play-off against the Brooklyn Dodgers.

The home run (in typically understated American fashion) became know as "The shot heard round the world" and lead to Russ Hodges' legendary call of "The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrI7dVj90zs

http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/news/story?id=5471194

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Thomson