Nick Penny

Baseball Facts. Anything, everything, as long as it's baseball.

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Steve Barber: Only pitcher ever to be pulled after 8.2 hitless innings. Why? 10 walks, 2 hit by pitches, 1 wild pitch

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Players with Same Lifetime AVG as Their World Series Overall Average:

Duffy Lewis- .284
Phil Linz- .235
Donny Murphy- .288
Paul Waner- .333

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Amazing: In only 89 G in 1950, Ted Williams had 97 RBI, 24 2B, and a .452 OBP. #SplendidSplinter #Greatest

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@Dstad17 Is 1 of 7 players since the deadball era (1st since 1930) to hit .350 or higher, with 25+ stolen bases, and over 100 RBI

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My wife asked me which bedspread pattern I like best so I asked her which Topps baseball set she likes best and now she's leaving me alone.

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Carlton Fisk is 1 of 7 HOF'ers to play 2,499+ G and GIDP 204 or less times...also 1 of 4 players to GIDP in a game hitting for the cycle.

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OF Dave Nicholson never had a season in which he hit more doubles than home runs, finishing his MLB career with a 61/32 HR-2B ratio.

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Pitcher, Earl Wilson only had three seasons (out of eleven) in which he hit more doubles than he did home runs.

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Found this very interesting: Pitcher, Earl Wilson hit 35 homers during his eleven year career...with only 12 doubles. #AllTheWay #NoDoubles

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The #Twins had sixty-one 10+ hit games this season, but they allowed 10+ hits eighty-five times. #Ouch

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2014: Rangers had fifty-five 10+ hit games this season...they allowed 10+ hits seventy-three times. #Ouch

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2012 WS Champion Giants: Their entire outfield hit as many home runs (35) and Josh Hamilton.

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2014: 1st season in which 9 or more rookies had 100+ SO. (Abreu, Bogaerts, Bradley, Castellanos, Hamilton, Olt, Schoop, Singleton, Springer)

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2014: First time since 1956, that less than 15 rookie relievers picked up at least one save.

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2014: Tenth season in the last 100 years to have four or less rookie pitchers throw a shutout.

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2014: Matt Shoemaker- Oldest rookie with an above .800 win-loss%, having pitched in 25+ games (at least 60% started).

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The only two pitchers ever, Christy Mathewson and Pete Alexander, to have 360+ wins and fewer than 1,000 walks, both had 373 career wins.

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Walter Johnson pitched 697.1 more innings than Steve Carlton...and balked 86 less times.

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Walter Johnson pitched 1,779 more innings than Randy Johnson, and allowed 314 fewer home runs.