trivial occurrences 2014

that happened like a week ago bro

lol

@KSeaboldt
CG, 1 H, 0 HR, 0 BB, Loss. David Price is the first pitcher in at least 100 years to do that...

David Price, Dallas Keuchel, and Tyson Ross all lost complete games yesterday. First time at least three lost complete games since June 25, 2004.

via AceballStats

Tomas Telis became the first player to catch a shutout in his first career game since Jason Kendall did it for Pittsburgh on April 1, 1996, according to baseball-reference.com.

Ryan Rua will become Texas' 59th player this season, tying a major league record.

Rua, a rookie first baseman/outfielder, was promoted when outfielder Jim Adduci was placed on the seven-day concussion disabled list. Rua is scheduled to play in Friday night's game against the Houston Astros.

The San Diego Padres twice used 59 players in a season (2002 and 2008), while the Cleveland Indians did it in 2002.

The Rangers will likely break the record, as left-handed starter Derek Holland, who has been out the entire season while recovering from knee surgery, is close to coming off the disabled list.

VVIP: very very isolated power.

http://wapc.mlb.com/cutfour/2014/09/05/93181018/four-hitters-mlb-history-200-average-25-home-runs-chris-davis

Torii Hunter is the first player with three multi-hit innings in one season since Dustin Pedroia and Curtis Granderson (both 2008).

*Kurkjian titter*

via Sam Miller of BP:

"Ryan Howard is about to be the first player with 100 RBIs and a sub-.700 OPS since Joe Carter, and just the fifth ever."

i didn't even know ryan howard was alive

Jerome Williams made baseball history, becoming the first pitcher to earn three wins against the same opponent in a season as a member of three different teams.

Entering Saturday, Williams had already defeated the A's on April 26 with the Astros and on July 25 with the Rangers. He threw seven scoreless innings Saturday and held Oakland to four hits.

In 247 PA, Jose Molina had a .187 slugging pct and an ISO of .009 (one of the 3 worst in the last 50 years, 200+ PA).

http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2014/8/22/6053517/jose-molinas-legendary-power-outage

4 runs scored!

lol he had more stolen bases (3) than extra-base hits (2) this season

Not exactly trivial, but

@JonHeymanCBS
national league had no one w/ 300 total bases for 1st time since 1942. stanton led w/ 299. enos slaughter led in '42 w/292

are walks rising along w/ strikeouts? that plus injuries to sluggers/stars (Cutch, Goldschmidt, Stanton) would explain that partly.

Kind of surprising that the NL got through the '60s without that happening...although with Mays and Aaron and a few others, maybe not. (Closest either league got in the '60s was Zolio Versalles' 308 in '65; Billy Williams led the NL with 321 in '68.)

It seems like a freak occurrence to me, with Cutch, Stanton, Rizzo, and Goldschmidt all injured for part of the year, leaving a catcher with doubles power as the best healthy offensive player.

Plus Tulowitzki--although, pro-rated, he only works out to around 340 total bases. I thought he was clipping along at a faster pace than that.

@Retrosheet
Players born on Tuesdays have 46,624 home runs, all-time MLB.
Fri - 41,975
Mon - 39,909
Sun - 38,989
Thu - 37,272
Wed - 37,007
Sat - 36,778

they are full of grace iirc

this explains why i never made the mlb, born on a weds, damn