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Wednesday, August 08, 2018
Pittsburgh Press, August 8, 1918: Harold (Hal) Chase, captain and first baseman of the Cincinnati club, has been indefinitely suspended because of indifferent playing, it was announced last night by Manager Mathewson. Chase was under a similar charge in 1913 while playing on the New York Americans and was traded by Manager Frank Chance to the Chicago Americans.
Air quotes weren’t a thing yet in 1918, so I guess peering between the lines was left to the readers. Hal Chase wasn’t indifferent at all, from what I can tell. Sometimes he tried as hard as he could to win, sometimes he tried as hard as he could to lose.
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1. Jefferson Manship (Dan Lee) Posted: August 08, 2018 at 09:50 AM (#5722997)C: Jocko Milligan (20.57 WAR)
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4 3 3 3 : Three players did this five times each. Two are Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. The third is a post-WW2 NL RHB slugger that I guess I'd put in the HOVG; he was very good, anyway, despite a somewhat unpleasant surname
4 3 3 4: Only one hitter has done this five times. He's a star on a major-league roster right now, so he might still add to his 4334s some day; but oddly for a holder of such a record, he has fewer than 4,000 big-league PAs
4 3 3 5 : Two men have done this three times apiece, two RHB HOVG sluggers, relative free swingers (baseball-wise at least) whose prime years were in the 1990s
4 3 3 6 : Four have done this twice. Babe Ruth and Ted Williams, and then two others not in the HOF. Let's see: both RHB. Both played multiple infield and outfield positions. One played in all the years of the 1950s and the other in all the years of the 2000s. Both were at their best in the first round of the playoffs, one batting .500 and the other .388 in such games. Both played for the Cubs, Giants, and Braves
4 3 3 7 : 24 men have done this once, most recently Ryan Braun in 2016
4 3 3 8 : seven have done this once, most recently Jayson Werth in 2008
4 3 3 9 : Sammy Sosa is the only one with this line, in 2002
4 3 3 10 : achieved on two grand slams plus a 2-run homer in 1999 – anyone remember who?
Too bad he never played with The Crime Dog, Fred McGriff. If that were a TV show, I'd watch it.
Cespedes?
Oh sure, "only" 8 RBI for the game, but then he did pack all of that into one inning.
Weren't both of them off the same pitcher (Chan Ho Park, perhaps)?
Ah geez. My father got a ticket to that game and flew from Philly to Chicago to see it. I was in Dallas watching on TV. Of course it was a fiasco. How could it have been anything but. I was so sorry for him. He wasn't too happy, himself :)
Now I'm older than he was then. Ah geez.
Nah, I just didn't want to reflect on either guy's extracurricular proclivities.
I guess you could make a reasonable case that his best seasons were in the aughts, but he did hit 129 home runs in 1998-99.
EDIT: although I may be thinking of his 4-homer game...
Mark DeRosa?
Nomah
Mark DeRosa is one of the 4336 leaders.
Nomar Garciaparra had the 4 3 3 10 day: the three home runs plus a foul out and a walk. He drove in ten of the Red Sox' 12 runs (Seattle scored four). It seems like an inordinate number of these weird high-RBI games are by Red Sox.
Other guesses not correct. That just leaves the guy from the 1950s who had two 4336 games, played IF and OF, was a Cub, Brave, and Giant, and hit .500 in playoff games.
Absolutely guessing
Looking it up so you know you are correct and then responding would be cheating.
Knowing a utility guy from the 50s is some pretty deep baseball knowledge.
Sometimes I do that, but I also still post my guess even if I'm wrong.
I don't know that he was a "utility" player as much as just a versatile regular. Thomson came up as a third baseman, but was adaptable enough to be a regular at CF and LF too.
The Giants' lineups in 1951-52 are very interesting. Thomson started nearly every day in '51 and truly every day in '52, and always had a set position, but the set position kept changing (unlike a utility man who might fill in on a daily basis, like DeRosa). Thomson began '51 in CF, then to LF so that Willie Mays could play CF, then 3B so that Monte Irvin could play LF, then back to CF in '52 when Mays went into the service.
ETA: all to say I disclaim any particularly deep baseball knowledge
The second most famous rain delay in Cubs history!
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