El Presidente
Posted by Andy on January 20, 2009
In honor of today's inauguration of a new American president, here are a few "presidential" facts about El Presidente, Dennis Martinez:
Most PAs against Martinez:
**PA** AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS SH SF IBB HBP GDP G_miss YR_miss +-----------------+-------+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+---+---+---+---+---+------+-------+ Barry Bonds 100 92 21 5 1 1 7 8 8 .228 .290 .337 .627 0 0 2 0 0
None other than Barry "U.S." Bonds.
Most HR against Martinez:
PA AB H 2B 3B **HR** RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS SH SF IBB HBP GDP G_miss YR_miss +-----------------+---+---+---+--+--+------+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+---+---+---+---+---+------+-------+ Jim Rice 95 85 32 4 4 7 26 7 8 .376 .421 .765 1.186 0 2 0 1 2
None other than outgoing Secretary of State Jim "Condoleeza" Rice.
He gave up a homer to Randy "George" Bush:
Car# Year Date Tm Opp Score Inn RoB Out Cnt Pit Play Desc. +-----+----+-------------+---+----+-----------+---+---+---+---+---+-------------------------+ 1 1983 1983-05-25 MIN @BAL ahead 2-0 t 1 12- 1 - Flyball: CF (Deep CF) Car# Year Date Tm Opp Score Inn RoB Out Cnt Pit Play Desc. +-----+----+-------------+---+----+-----------+---+---+---+---+---+-------------------------+ 2 1984 1984-07-04 MIN BAL tied 0-0 b 2 --- 0 - Strikeout 3 down 1-3 b 4 --- 1 - Groundout: 2B-1B 4 down 1-5 b 7 --- 0 - Home Run Car# Year Date Tm Opp Score Inn RoB Out Cnt Pit Play Desc. +-----+----+-------------+---+----+-----------+---+---+---+---+---+-------------------------+ 5 1985 1985-07-09 MIN @BAL tied 0-0 t 1 --- 2 - Ground-rule Double 6 ahead 1-0 t 3 12- 1 - Walk; Puckett to 3B; Hatcher to 2B 7 ahead 4-0 t 4 1-3 2 - Lineout: 1B
And so on...
January 20th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
ha! that's genius! nice work!
January 20th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Bonds had before El Presidente lowest batting average (.228) of all the pitchers who faced 55 or more AB!