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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Thursday, August 21, 2008
HE PREYS ON CATCHER’S INTERFERENCE! As only Bob T. had the guts to look into The Monster of Triandos Blancas!
The number of instances of catcher’s interference has gone up in recent years, which I think can be attributed to the increase in the number of games and better protective equipment for catchers that let them set up closer to the batter, even if it’s by a couple of inches. However, the number of occurrences isn’t exactly staggering, although it does happen more frequently than a complete game shutout now.
...The leader among active players in catcher’s interference calls is Darin Erstad of the Astros with 13. Craig Counsell of the Brewers is engaged in a neck and neck battle with Erstad with 12 CI calls. Erstad is the only player I’ve ever seen reach on CI in person, back on July 19, 1998 when Chris Hoiles of the Orioles knicked Erstad’s bat. Or at least that’s what I believe happened as I recall also that I had to stare into the sun most of the game, so pretty much anything that happened at home plate was just a rumor to me.
...In Boston, since the Curse of the Bambino has been lifted, it’s now time to talk about the Curse of Darren Lewis. Lewis reached first on catcher’s interference back on September 13, 1998 courtesy of Tigers catcher Paul Bako. And no Red Sox player has reached on catcher’s interference since then, the longest current drought for any franchise in the majors. How much longer will the people of Boston have to suffer? (My book proposal about this has gone nowhere which shows that there is a limit in the publishing world to the number of Red Sox-themed books there can be.)
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Posted: August 21, 2008 at 08:17 AM | 6 comment(s)
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That's probably the highlight of his career. Which is really sad.
That's probably the highlight of his career. Which is really sad.
No, Berra also set a record for catcher's inhalerences in 1984 with seven grams...so there's that.
It's partly that, and partly that almost every hitter nowadays sets up as far back in the box as he can legally get.
-- MWE
Talk about obscure stats!!
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