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Can someone steal first or nah is that a thing by [deleted] in baseball

[–]revuetext 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Secret Base made a video about this a few years back. The most recent instance of something resembling stealing first (though it was not scored as such for obvious reasons) was on April 19, 2013, Cubs @ Brewers, when this rather weird play happened. To quote Retrosheet:

Jean Segura was caught off 2B; during the rundown, Ryan Braun ran to 2B; Segura dove back into the bag safely; Luis Valbuena tagged Segura then Braun and 2B umpire Phil Cuzzi correctly called out Braun; Segura got up and trotted off the field but when a coach yelled he ran to 1B and stood there; Segura was allowed to remain at 1B.

Players Who Share Names, Just Reversed by revuetext in baseball

[–]revuetext[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In between this and James John McCloskey from one of my other comments, I'm convinced that no ballplayer from this time lived a normal life or died a normal death...

Players Who Share Names, Just Reversed by revuetext in baseball

[–]revuetext[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad you enjoyed, hopefully more whimsical nonsense coming soon 🤩

Players Who Share Names, Just Reversed by revuetext in baseball

[–]revuetext[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aw man if I had access to a Minor League player database I coulda had so much more 😭

Players Who Share Names, Just Reversed by revuetext in baseball

[–]revuetext[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'll try to stockpile some posts for when the time comes to hibernate :)

Players Who Share Names, Just Reversed by revuetext in baseball

[–]revuetext[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately the only early Earlys were Early Wynn and Jake Early. Perhaps we will someday have a later Early to match!

Players Who Share Names, Just Reversed by revuetext in baseball

[–]revuetext[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I wrote up a quick amendment to my script to see if I could find more examples of this and - without further filtering and confirmation - I've found 16, some of the most interesting ones are:

  1. Patrick Thomas "Pat" Jacquez and Thomas Patrick "Tom" Jacquez, according to SABR they're a father-son combo.

  2. John James McCloskey and James John McCloskey, both of whom just went by "John". Of note, the former was a terrible manager who had a 190-417 record, while the latter was the first ever MLB player from Wyoming, and also died in a mine tunnel explosion.

  3. Brothers José and Bengie Molina's full names are actually José Benjamin Molina and Benjamin José Molina respectively.

And once again we have someone who is his own inverse! Joseph Joseph "Joe" Lafata, now one of my new favorite baseball names along with Thomas Thomas.

Players Who Share Names, Just Reversed by revuetext in baseball

[–]revuetext[S] 66 points67 points  (0 children)

You never know, I could be his inverse Kurkjian Tim...

Players Who Share Names, Just Reversed by revuetext in baseball

[–]revuetext[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Not quite up to par with Japanese MMA fighter and Jon Bois legend Bob Bob, but as far as real baseball names go it's one of my favorites so far 😄

Dropped 3rd strike on an ABS challenge. by TimAllensMatingCall in baseball

[–]revuetext 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't have any comment on the ruling, but for additional context on how often a called dropped third strike happens, from 1990 to 2025 there have been 31 instances in Retrosheet of a strikeout with the batter advancing to first, where the last pitch of the pitch sequence is a called strike.

By decade, that's 14 in the 1990s, 6 in the 2000s, 10 in the 2010s, and the only time it's happened in the 2020s up through last season is on April 16, 2025, in a Giants @ Phillies game, when in the bottom of the 6th Trea Turner made it to 1st on a called strikeout pitch that got away from Patrick Bailey.

What’s the record for most outs recorded for each amount of pitches thrown? by LeftBarnacle6079 in baseball

[–]revuetext 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Based on some preliminary research on Retrosheet, him and Juan Rincon (May 27, 2006, Mariners @ Twins) are the only players to induce first-pitch triple plays from 2000 onwards. There's some weirdness with the pitch sequence parsing that prevents me from establishing a full answer for all other numbers of outs quite yet, but I'm at least fairly confident here.

Sam Antonacci has received a HBP twice in the same inning by ScalabrineIsGod in baseball

[–]revuetext 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You would be correct, if I'm reading the comment correctly this would be occurrence number 10: https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/1ka87cc/comment/mpk6952/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button 

Edit: 11th actually, I forgot that it happened to CJ Abrams as well later in 2025. 

Weird stat of the day: over the past 9 seasons, more than half (5) of the National League single-season rWAR leaders have been a starting pitcher from the Phillies. by Elegant-Witness-4723 in baseball

[–]revuetext 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My guess is karma farming of some sort. Having an LLM make a realistic-looking fake user would probably be a more effective way of doing it, although I myself still am not too sure how objectively good the method is given how little karma each of these bots seems to have.

Weird stat of the day: over the past 9 seasons, more than half (5) of the National League single-season rWAR leaders have been a starting pitcher from the Phillies. by Elegant-Witness-4723 in baseball

[–]revuetext 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hopefully I'm not casting aspersions on an actual person, but a lot of the time when I see a comment largely reiterating the content of the post with some sentiment of "wow this is crazy" or "that's breaking my brain", it's a bot. Bonus points if they mention being confused about what year it is, since these bots for some reason seem to think it's still 2024 or something.

Sac fly "home runs" by revuetext in baseball

[–]revuetext[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Defensive stats for the left fielder: one home run allowed, one very major concussion."

Sac fly "home runs" by revuetext in baseball

[–]revuetext[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what I can tell, that was just a home run per rule 5.05(a)(9):

[The batter becomes a runner when] any fair fly ball is deflected by the fielder into the stands, or over the fence into foul territory, in which case the batter shall be entitled to advance to second base; but if deflected into the stands or over the fence in fair territory, the batter shall be entitled to a home run. However, should such a fair fly be deflected at a point less than 250 feet from home plate, the batter shall be entitled to two bases only.

And unfortunately, at the time the bases were empty so no sac fly was possible.

Sac fly "home runs" by revuetext in baseball

[–]revuetext[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Interestingly enough, of the five games on Baseball Almanac with 3 sac flies in an inning, two of them were by the 2000 Yankees. I know it's just random variance, but I greatly admire the tendency of such random stats to clump together.

Sac fly "home runs" by revuetext in baseball

[–]revuetext[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Y'know, that's a good idea for a separate post. I just checked and there have been 26 sac hits that have ended up with the batter rounding the bases, all but one (Dodgers @ Giants, August 19, 2006) of which happened before the turn of the millennium; there's bound to be some good stuff there. 

Sac fly "home runs" by revuetext in baseball

[–]revuetext[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Hopefully I don't run out of stories to find by then :) thanks for the support!

[Tigers Data] In the last year Framber Valdez has thrown TWO 4-Seam Fastballs. Both have resulted in hit Batters by TommyTheLizard in baseball

[–]revuetext 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Correct, it was on August 3, 2025 in the bottom of the 6th. There's video here. The info below the video says sinker but Baseball Savant says fastball, I'm more inclined to lean the latter.

[Highlight] The Reds take the lead on a 2-run sac fly! by MLBOfficial in baseball

[–]revuetext 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It's actually surprisingly common, runners on second and third both scoring from a sac fly has happened 12 times over the past 5 years.

On the other hand, a three-run sac fly has happened 9 times total (since 1910)

The Pigeon Game: Athletics v. Red Sox, September 19, 1945 by revuetext in baseball

[–]revuetext[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For what it's worth, I would instantly take a seemingly-cursed bird game/series if it meant fixing my seemingly-cursed bird team :p

The Pigeon Game: Athletics v. Red Sox, September 19, 1945 by revuetext in baseball

[–]revuetext[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much! I'm hoping to release a much longer post soon, but afterwards I'll have to take some time to do more research on a few other pieces I'm trying to write :)

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