Stat of the Day: Jaffe: Memory Checking the Goose

Goose Gossage is a big, fat, fu manchooch wearin’ liar who smells like Oscar Beregi’s joyless trousers...there, I said it!

In a new article, Goose Gossage talks about intentionally hitting batters.  The article states:

“Gossage, that famous mustache now gray, claims to have hit only three batters intentionally in his major league career: Ron Gant, Al Bumbry and Andres Galarraga.

‘They had it coming,’ he said.”

Perhaps so, but there’s one problem.  Going by the PI features, Goose Gossage never hit Al Bumbry.  He nailed Gant & Galaragga the same summer, but never Bumbry in the majors.

Was he thinking of some other Oriole?  Well, he only hit six of them, and the last two occasions came after Bumbry was gone.

One was Mark Belanger.  Who the hell intentionally hits Mark Belanger.  That’s going hunting with hope of offing Bambi’s mom…