Pettitte hits Carlos Pena, again.
HBPs of note: June 8, 2009
Prior to yesterday, their was only one batter in the league who had been plunked twice by Andy Pettitte. It was Carlos Pena, and Pettitte hit him again last night. Pettitte has hit 44 different batters a total of 46 time. Pettitte is the only active pitcher who has faced over 10,000 batters but hit less than 50.
Aaron Cunningham of the A's also got hit by a pitch yesterday, which moved him into 2nd place on the all time HBP list for batters born in Alaska. He has a total of 2 career HBPs now, passing Shawn Chacon on the list of Alaskans who have been plunked. Josh Phelps holds the Alaskan record with 36 plunks, but those three are the only people born in Alaska who have been plunked in the major leagues.
Seven of yesterdays eight HBPs occured in odd numbered innings.
Labels: HBPs of note
posted by pbr @ 6/09/2009 06:43:00 AM
0 comments
links to this post
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
Create a Link
<< Home