Quentin faces Shoppach in battle for HBP lead
Carlos Quentin and the Chicago White Sox face Kelly Shoppach and the Cleveland Indians last night, with Shoppach and Quentin tied for the Major League HBP lead with 8 each. Obviously with these two facing each other the only outcome could be... that Mark DeRosa got hit by a pitch. That makes 41 for his career, if anyone's counting.
There were only 4 games yesterday, and 5 hit batters in them, so we might as well look at something else. Pablo Sandoval of the Gianst hit 3 foul balls yesterday, bringing him to 121 on the season. He's 5th in the majors in total foul balls, behind Ian Kinsler, Andre Ethier, David Ortix and Carl Crawford. Meanwhile the Washington Nationals hit 26 foul balls yesterday, bringing their season total to 864, which is 4th in the majors. Clearly the Nationals don't mind wasting taxpayer money by hitting their baseballs into the stands. (I'll just go ahead and assume they're a federal agency). The Nationals average a league leading 27.9 foul balls per game.
The Braves hit 35 foul balls yesterday, bringing them out of last place in the league foul ball standings, up to 714. They're now ahead of the Tigers and Phillies in foul balls, but neither of them played yesterday. Atlanta is still in last place in foul balls per game with 22.3.
Labels: HBPs of note
posted by pbr @ 5/12/2009 06:28:00 AM
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You appear to have missed one, and it's a doozy:
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090512&content_id=4682504&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb&partnerId=rss_mlb
Yes, Josh Wilson got hit by a pitch, and at that point he was in the game as the pitcher when he normally plays short stop, but it would have been more notable if he had hit a batter. Or, if he got hit before he pitched so maybe he could have fired back. But Lincoln hit him in the bottom of the 9th with an 8 run lead, so it was unlikely that Wilson would get to "bean him back". Fun though.
On my old site I tracked down the last position player to hit an opposing batter while called into pitching duty, but nobody has done it this year, despite a pretty high number of incidents of position players being called on to pitch.
Thanks for the link and the tip!
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