Erasing Your Little Effort
Posted by Steve Lombardi on June 21, 2009
Inspired by comments elsewhere, I decided to take B-R.com's Play Index Team Batting Game Finder for a spin setting the controls for "From 1954 to 2009, Games where Team Batters GIDP>=4, H<=4 and BB<=1" and this is what I found:
Cnt Date Tm Opp GmReslt PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF ROE GDP SB CS LOB Batrs +----+-------------+---+----+-------+---+---+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+---+--+---+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+-----+ 1 2006-08-29 STL FLA L 1-9 28 27 1 4 0 0 1 1 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 14 2 2004-07-30 FLA MON L 0-9 29 28 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 2 15 3 1982-07-20 PHI @SDP L 0-2 28 27 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 1 9 4 1975-09-09 MIN TEX L 0-3 28 27 0 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 4 0 0 1 12
Notice the difference in the "Time of Game" from the games in 1975 and 1982 - compared to those from 2004 and 2006. The extra offense in the 2000's games added an extra hour to the games - even if the offense was just one-sided.
June 21st, 2009 at 6:36 pm
On Sunday June 21 the Diamondbacks had two pitchers take the mound, but not record an out in the game against the Mariners. Scott Schoeneweis and Chad Qualls were the pitchers in question. Any other team do this feat more than that?
June 24th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Looking through all the pitchers with 0 IP organized by date, I found lots of games where a team had 2 pitchers with 0 IP in the same game (in fact, Atlanta also did it on June 21), but had to go back to 2008-09-03 to find a game with 3 pitchers with 0 IP for the same team (Minnesota did it against Toronto). Milwaukee did it against Arizona on 2008-07-03. That means there are probably more, maybe even some with 4 pitchers with 0 IP, but I didn't go back any further.