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College baseball on way to lowest scoring in 40 years, coaches call for livelier ball

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posted 3 weeks ago by Repoz to college | 27 comment(s)

Screw Lilly…we need the Jeff Ledbetter Fair Play Act of 2013!

College baseball is on pace to set a record for fewest home runs and a 40-year low for scoring and batting average. Now some coaches are calling for a livelier ball to bring the numbers back up.

The switch to toned-down metal bats in 2011 has led to an offensive decline greater than many expected.

“The game isn’t the same,” Clemson coach Jack Leggett said this week. “It’s not as exciting.”

Leggett is leading an effort to adopt ...

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1. winnipegwhip posted on February 17, 2011 at 03:13 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

You got good wood on that one Wittels!!!!!!!!!

2. Lassus posted on February 17, 2011 at 03:27 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Was Ventura's streak across seasons or just within 1987?

Streaks broken across seasons really shouldn't count.

3. Best Regards, L.M. posted on February 17, 2011 at 03:36 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Streaks broken across seasons really shouldn't count.

Of course they should.

4. Lassus posted on February 17, 2011 at 03:39 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Of course they should.

Of course?

My argument would be that the effort and exhaustion would hit you after 40 games a lot more than in the first few games of a season.

Why of course?

5. Accent Shallow posted on February 17, 2011 at 03:40 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Did anyone else interpret the headline as "Wittels will be cleared to play as soon as he manages to get charged with rape, as is required"?

6. Best Regards, L.M. posted on February 17, 2011 at 03:47 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Of course?

My argument would be that the effort and exhaustion would hit you after 40 games a lot more than in the first few games of a season.

Why of course

Because it would be hits in consecutive games played.

If DiMaggio had pulled a muscle in the middle of his streak and been out two weeks, and kept hitting when he came back, it would still count.

Records are a record of what happens, not a record of how impressive it was. And the guy who did it in one season would still hold the single-season hitting streak record, anyway, if someone cared about that.

7. Lassus posted on February 17, 2011 at 03:52 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

I guess I read (present tense) the record as hits in consecutive games, not in consecutive games played, as you do.

8. Best Regards, L.M. posted on February 17, 2011 at 03:57 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Well, that's what the record is. If the player walks in every plate appearance, that does not end a streak, either.

9. vortex of dissipation posted on February 17, 2011 at 03:58 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

I guess I read (present tense) the record as hits in consecutive games, not in consecutive games played, as you do.

MLB Scoring Rule 10.23(b) states "A player’s individual consecutive-game hitting streak shall be determined by the consecutive games in which such player appears and is not determined by his club’s games."

10. Best Regards, L.M. posted on February 17, 2011 at 04:00 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

I'd like DiMaggio's record to be broken by a pitcher.

11. Tripon posted on February 17, 2011 at 04:04 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Future Seattle Mariners player.

12. Lassus posted on February 17, 2011 at 04:13 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

I am trumped by the actual rules. Ah well.

13. Best Regards, L.M. posted on February 17, 2011 at 04:17 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

SUCK IT.

:-P

14. Davo Mastroianni posted on February 17, 2011 at 05:02 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

I'd like DiMaggio's record to be broken by a pitcher.

Tony Eusebio was the backup catcher for the Astros in 2000. He got hits in 24 straight games...over a period of 45 team games, including one he entered as a pinch hitter.

15. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) posted on February 17, 2011 at 06:36 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

SUCK IT.

:-P

Maybe not the best taunt to use in a thread about rape...

16. Something Other posted on February 18, 2011 at 04:13 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Does anyone else find it dismaying that schools often suspend players until they've been cleared of charges?

17. Crispix Attacks 2: Swag Airlines posted on February 18, 2011 at 04:24 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Tony Eusebio was the backup catcher for the Astros in 2000. He got hits in 24 straight games...over a period of 45 team games, including one he entered as a pinch hitter.

John Wehner broke the record for consecutive errorless games at third base with 99, over the course of what I think was six seasons.

18. Der_K posted on February 19, 2011 at 08:37 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

wittels went 0-for-4, streak over.

19. Athletic Supporter gangnam style posted on February 19, 2011 at 08:46 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

wittels went 0-for-4, streak over.

Ball don't lie!

20. snapper (history's 42nd greatest monster) posted on February 19, 2011 at 08:57 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Does anyone else find it dismaying that schools often suspend players until they've been cleared of charges?

I think it really depends on the charges and the how substantive the evidence appears.

If a guy is accused of shooting somebody, and they have him on tape, or raping somebody, and she's all beat up and they have his DNA, I don't think you wait for his conviction, even if he manages to post bail.

21. Lassus posted on February 19, 2011 at 09:23 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

wittels went 0-for-4, streak over.

Woohoo! Robin Ventura holds onto a piece of his immortality.

22. Der Komminsk-sar posted on July 05, 2011 at 01:58 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

He had kind of a down junior year, went undrafted, had the charges dropped (there was an extortion plot?) and signed as a free agent with the Cardinals.

23. Sleepy supports unauthorized rambling posted on July 05, 2011 at 02:30 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

If a guy is accused of shooting somebody, and they have him on tape, or raping somebody, and she's all beat up and they have his DNA, I don't think you wait for his conviction, even if he manages to post bail.

Yeah, that extortion plot probably cost the guy a good bit of money. Not sure how much I like this move, as a cardinals fan, since (even if completely innocent) that haircut/shirt/tie picture in the link just screams "sleazebag", but maybe sleazebags are the new market efficiency...

24. Gonfalon Bubble posted on July 05, 2011 at 04:16 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

A much funkier "consecutive games" situation than the multi-seasonal streak counts: the one where Hideki Matsui's consecutive games streak came to an end when he broke his wrist in the top of the first inning. But that game did NOT count as the last game of his streak, because he never had an at-bat. However, it DOES go into his "games played" column.

It's not important, but it is truly and deeply stupid.

As is the "0-for-0 with five walks = the hitting streak continues" premise. Has that ever actually happened when it mattered?

25. SoSHially Unacceptable posted on July 05, 2011 at 04:39 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

As is the "0-for-0 with five walks = the hitting streak continues" premise. Has that ever actually happened when it mattered?

Guys who can walk five times in a game don't have hitting streaks.

26. Athletic Supporter gangnam style posted on July 05, 2011 at 06:19 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

As is the "0-for-0 with five walks = the hitting streak continues" premise. Has that ever actually happened when it mattered?

Perhaps more likely: guy with a 5-game hitting streak gets the day off, pinch-hits, walks. Hits in the next [large number] games.

Or: Guy gets beaned in first PA, charges mound, ejected. (Alternatively, injured, removed from game.) Breaks streak?

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