A's set a record last night

by battlekow on Apr 29, 2008 3:25 PM PDT

I'm a Brewers fan, but I was talking to my A's-fan buddy last night and he was telling me about the big rally the A's had going, so I started watching it on mlb.tv. Going through the play-by-play and parsing the carnage, I noticed that both Chris Denorfia and Rajai Davis entered the game as pinch runners and then both had hits later the same inning. I was wondering if that had ever happened, so I checked it out on BBref and, as far as I can tell*, it hasn't: since 1956, no team has ever had two players enter as a pinch runner in the same inning and both register a hit later that same inning. Pretty cool.

*no PBP available for this game, in which it could have feasibly happened.

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i wondered the same thing,

thanks

by Future Ed on Apr 29, 2008 4:01 PM PDT reply actions

That is pretty cool.

I still would have liked to see Thomas get a shot at the cycle, but oh well. He still looked damn happy after the game.

Some read stats. Fans actually watch the games.

by UncleLeo on Apr 29, 2008 4:26 PM PDT reply actions

That triple meant more...

... than words—or the cycle—ever could. ‘Least, that’s the way it looked to me.

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by Joey C. on Apr 29, 2008 6:48 PM PDT up reply actions

I wonder

A triple would have been included in a cycle, and he’s never hit for the cycles before, whereas he has hit triples before.

Some read stats. Fans actually watch the games.

by UncleLeo on Apr 30, 2008 8:04 AM PDT up reply actions

Very cool

Thanks for running that down.

by HigherPie on Apr 29, 2008 4:36 PM PDT reply actions

"Record" isn't quite the right word here

because it implies a quantity which has been exceeded.

There’s an obscure linguistic term, hapax legomena, which is used to describe a word which comes up only once in a body of text. (Say you have a million-word text body, and you find that “archimandrite” only appears once. It is therefore a hapax legomena.) There should be a word like this for baseball to describe “an event (or events in conjunction) which has/have never happened before.”

Anyone feel like inventing one?

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by PaulThomas on Apr 29, 2008 4:47 PM PDT reply actions

It is a quantity that has been exceeded

In record book it would be under “Most players to enter as a pinch runner and later register a hit in the same inning” or something like that, with the quantity of two.

He's extremely quick and good.

by battlekow on Apr 29, 2008 5:08 PM PDT up reply actions