BASEBALL I’m playing around with the subscriber data site on Baseball Reference. I had trouble with my initial search on in the park home runs. So instead I decided to look at hit by pitch numbers since Fister has so many in under 1/3 of a season. Currently Fister has the 45th highest number of […]
MoreBASEBALL There were some good plays in this game. Avisail Garcia threw out Coco Crisp at the plate when he tried to score from second on a single. Fister hustled to cover first when Fielder knocked down a ball and had to range to get it. But, there was some awful play, too. Coco Crisp made […]
MoreBASEBALL Jhonny Peralta hit a home run in the second after Delmon Young walked and Raburn doubled. Later Peralta hit another home run for insurance. Meanwhile Fister struck out 9 in an 8 inning start. (We know because we bring K signs to hold up in road parks.) When we arrived Downs and Pickens were […]
MoreBASEBALL The Tigers are 3-12 this year in the slot in the rotation that is normally filled with Doug Fister. This includes 2 of Casey Crosby’s starts and all 3 of Adam Wilk’s starts. While Fister has not pitched well lately- or at least not gotten good results- the 0.200 winning percentage shocked me. I […]
MoreBASEBALL The memorable part of this game was a Fister error. The Pirates pitcher Burnett bunted and Fister had an easy play at the lead runner at third. A bad throw and a bad pick up up Delmon Young led to the Pirates third and fourth runs. This would have been particularly frustrating except the […]
MoreBASEBALL You know things are going your way when: You get to Gate C at 5:18 and season ticket holders get full run of the stadium at 5:20. Your children win the race to the right field bleachers. The Tigers forget to send a ball boy up there like they usually do at 5:15 and […]
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