Baseball by the numbers 4/9/06
96 -- Wins the Cardinals have averaged per season over the last six.607 -- Career double hit by Craig Biggio Friday night in Houston, moving into tenth place on the all-time list. For the record, Pete Rose is 2nd on the list with 746. Not bad for a "singles hitter."
541 -- Reason that I despise ESPN: This morning they did two minutes of highlights and analysis of the Oklahoma Sooners spring football game.
91 -- Number of Opening Days held at Wrigley Field. And evidently, it's finally run out of hot water for the visitors' locker room. After Friday's game played during 30 degree temperatures and a 25 mph wind, the Cardinals returned to a clubhouse with five minutes of warm running water. CF Jim Edmonds called playing at Wrigley "a complete Class A experience."
37 -- Combined number of games the Cardinals finished ahead of the Cubs in 2004 and 2005. No connection to the previous item, I'm sure.
498 -- Reason that I despise ESPN: Their obvious belief that the rules of news and entertainment separation don't apply to sports journalism, i.e. Bonds on Bonds.
0 -- Strikes taken by new Cardinals Aaron Miles and Juan Encarnacion in the ninth inning of yesterday's game, trailing 3-2.
12 -- Hitless at-bats to start the season by the Cubs' new rightfielder Jacque Jones, including 6 strikeouts. Let me take this opportunity to propose this trade to Cubs fans-- Jones for Encarnacion ??
176-6 -- Greg Maddux's career record when he gets five or more runs of support. Like an idiot, I thought the Cardinals still had a good chance of winning Friday when, down 5-0, Edmonds led off the seventh with a home run and Scott Rolen walked.
9/2/86 -- Date Maddux recorded the first of his 319 wins in the majors. How far back does Maddux go in Cubbydom? His first victory came in relief of a game suspended by darkness, two years before lights were installed at Wrigley Field.
1-50 -- Reasons I despise ESPN: Chris Berman
5-0 -- The Milwaukee Brewers' record this morning.
0 -- Number of nights I've lied awake so far this season worrying about the Brewers.
posted by CM @ 10:33 AM
2 Comments:
Here's some more - updated a little more than 12 hours after the original post....
3: Number of RBI's Jacque Jones got for his 1st hit as a Chicago Cubs, from a 4th inning HR.
3: Number of walks given up by Cardinals bullpen leading off the 8th inning with a 4-3 lead. All 3 scored on a grand slam by Michael Barrett.
3: Number of games the Cubs have won over the Cardinals so far this year.
1908
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