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YCPB Awards–Not Quite the Year of the Pitcher

In 1968, twenty pitchers pitched at least 175 innings with ERAs under 2.50. Seven of those twenty had ERAs under 2.00, led by Bob Gibson’s miniscule 1.12 (in 304.2 innings). Detroit’s Denny McLain went 31-6, becoming just the third 30-game … Continue reading

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Daily Roundup, 8/10/10

Pitcher A: 6.2 innings, 5 hits, 2 unearned runs, 2 walks, 7 strikeouts Pitcher B: 4.1 innings, 6 hits, 6 earned runs, 2 walks, 4 strikeouts Pitcher A is Anibal Sanchez, who turned in a solid effort against Washington. Pitcher … Continue reading

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Daily Roundup, 07/27/10

– The Marlins’ Chris Coghlan injured himself pie-ing a teammate after a walk-off win. Watch out, AJ Burnett… – The Mets have scored 26 runs in their last 13 games. Tonight, they were facing Adam Wainwright, who has given up … Continue reading

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Daily Roundup, 6/28/10 (It’s gettin’ hot in here…)

Due to Con Edison’s fudgery,, I’ll try to make this quick as possible. Some games may be still in progress, and there are eight teams off tonight, hence this being kinda short. This compiled with much thanks to contributor JGS … Continue reading

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Daily Roundup: 6/23/10

You may have heard that crazy stuff happened in sports today. Here’s what happened in baseball. –Dustin Nippert struck out seven hitters in three innings. He also threw 82 pitches and pitched ONLY three innings. –In the first inning of … Continue reading

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Daily Roundup: 06/18/10

– The Yankees have scored one run or fewer in Yankee Stadium in four games: a loss against the Nationals a year ago, Game 1 of the 2009 World Series, and… the last two games. – Hisanori Takahashi and Javier … Continue reading

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Daily Roundup, 06/13/10

– Seven players had multi-home run games today. That’s the most since June 4, 2006. – In their interleague match tonight, the White Sox and Cubs went without a hit until there were two outs in the bottom of the … Continue reading

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We Can Has Strasburg(er)

Fourteen strike outs in seven innings. Zero walks. I know, I know. Strasburg’s was only facing the Pirates, who don’t count as a Major League lineup. Dude. Shut up and enjoy it. Seriously. Fourteen strikeouts and seventeen swings and misses … Continue reading

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Daily Roundup, 06/08/10

– Stephen Strasburg made his debut and he might have actually exceeded the hype. Rebecca might have some more for you tomorrow… BUT know that he gave up a home run to Delwyn Young. – Last night, Cole Hamels had … Continue reading

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Daily Roundup: 5/24/2010

There were only four games tonight and most of the things that happened were, like, the Pirates and Indians losing, so not a terribly weird night. There’s always something, though. – Toronto scored six runs tonight, none by home run. … Continue reading

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