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The question is not who won 3 straight its just appeared in 3 straight. So far the Cubs (1906-08 L-W-W), A's (1988-1990 L-W-L, 1972-1974 W-W-W, 1929-1931 W-W-L), Orioles (1969-1971 L-W-L) and Cardinals (1942-1944 W-L-W) have been correctly removed from the list.
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This makes sense from the standpoint of SD trying to give their fans something else to talk about besides that their team just gave up on the season.
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This is not true because as soon as a batted ball hits a runner the play is dead, the runner is out and the batter gets first base and is credited with a hit.
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Bases loaded, ball hit in play, no one touches it; batter passes runner on first, 1 out, runner on 1st passes runner on 2nd, 2 out, runner on 2nd passes runner on third, triple play. There are lots of ways for this to happen.
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Question: Which of the following teams has never played in 3 straight World Series? A's Cardinals Cubs Giants Orioles Reds Tigers
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Awesome...just awesome...Baseball Boogie
topper09er replied to 44Fishy's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Anything that was considered cool or popular in the 80s is so hilarious today. -
I agree 100%, I was pretty mad Hall was hitting with Baun on deck. Although I dont think it cost us the game, its not very likely Cousell would get on and Braun gets an extra base hit, it did take away any chance of winning.
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Dropped third strike rule question
topper09er replied to Patrick425's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I think actually if say the pitcher is in the windup, say Hideo Nomo, and the runner takes off with a HUGE jump and touches 2nd base before the batter strikes out then first base is not occupied anymore and they batter is not out on a dropped third strike until he is tagged or put out at first base. -
In this scenario Braun is hitting out of order but as soon as they throw ball 1 to Hardy Braun became the legal hitter which means Fielder is now the legal batter and Hardy is hitting illegally for Fielder. Once hardy's at bat is over with a walk and before the next pitch if the defense asks for an appeal they would get it because Hardy would be out for hitting out of order so actually Fielder is credited with an out and whoever is due up after Fielder is the proper hitter, not Braun... but you had the right idea.
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Wow, it is so weird that I asked this and then the only possible way it could occur actually happened tonight when Bourn hit out of order. The way batting out of order works is that only after the at bat is completed the defense can appeal only before the next the pitch. If the next pitch is thrown then the illegal at bat counts as a legal at bat and whoever is up after the guy who hit out of order is legally up. So, Bourn led off while batting illegally for Matsui with a single and say the brewers did not notice this and threw a pitch to Matsui. Now Bourn's at bat is legal and the proper batter would be Lance Berkman because he is hitting after Bourn in the starting lineup. But like what happened tonight say the Astros did not notice this so they send Matsui up there to bat for Berkman illegally. Say Matsui strikes out and then the brewers throw a pitch to Berkman. When the brewers failed to appeal Matsui hitting out of order he became the correct hitter so the hitter listed after him in the starting lineup, Michael Bourn, is now the proper batter....but he is on first base.
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One more for today: Is it possible to be on base when it is your legal turn to bat (and explain)?
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Pretty creative with ToeKnee ArmAss, but he never won a batting title
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these are obviously not right but Bartolo Colon, Rollie Fingers, Jim Palmer, Cory H(e)art I think of 2 possibilities who I think won batting titles: Dick Groat and Hienie Zimmerman
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4 is the right answer with the last being 60 in 1927 but the others are wrong They are: 1919: 29 HRs with BOS 1920: 54 HRs with NYY 1921: 59 HRs (this is the greatest single season anyone has ever had, check out the stats http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/ruthba01.shtml) 1927: 60 HRs
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OK heres another one: How many times did Babe Ruth set the single season HR record (bonus for seasons and totals)?
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Similar thing happened to McGwire in '97, he hits 58 Homers but was traded and didnt lead either league. Also, I suggest that we use the honor system and people only post here if they knew the answer without looking it up (Im assuming GodSpeed did not remember that Eddie hit .330 and McGee hit .335 while in the NL and .324 overall, if you did then thats impressive and sorry)
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Well I guess I can just post the answer here and hopefully people will think about the answer before scrolling down. You were close, they are: 1901 Milwaukee Brewers (who moved to St. Louis as the Browns in 1902 and then moved to Baltimore as the current Orioles in 1954) 1969 Seattle Pilots (who obviously moved to MIlwaukee in 1970) This happens to be a Milwaukee related question but I will post league-wide questions in general.
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I really like baseball trivia so I figured there must be other people here who do to so I'll try to post some good questions from time to time for fun. Im not sure if this belongs here or not so the moderators should move this or delete it if they want to. 1. What are the only 2 times (city and season) when a major league baseball team played in a city for only 1 year in the modern era (1900-present)?
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Not that we would still have him but the Yankees agreed to trade Alfonso Soriano (as a prospect) for Dave Nillson to help their pennet run and Wendy Selig came down from the owners box and vetoed the trade because she didnt want it to affect ticket sales and give the fans the impression they were giving up on the season.
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Im sorry, but I have played a lot of baseball and bunting a fastball in the strike zone is easy, especially if you have the hand-eye coordination of a major league baseball player. It is easy for me so it should be easy for Kendall. Nice win!
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No, the problem was that he failed to bunt which is not difficult to do, the first pitch of the AB was easy to bunt, I could have bunted it to the 3rd basemen. Then counsell hit a SF which would be huge right now. Bunting in that situation with Kendall-Counsell-Weeks due up is not marginal at all, it is the ONLY good option you have. Would you really prefer to see kendall chop into a 5-3 doiubleplay there? Macha thought it was a bunting situation so I guess you know more than he does.
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That kind of inning happens to every team; does that mean we aren't going to have a champion this year? You can only win in the playoffs if you can play small ball, we are not good at that and need to get better. Most teams dont score in those situations because they dont even try to play small ball which is stupid. The fact that we tried and failed is bad.
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WALK PUJOLS
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If we cant score runs in games like this in an inning like that we are not going to win the World Series. They better learn from this and not fail to score these FREE runs late in close games very often.
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If some billionare built a hotel/casino/baseball stadium and included the ticket prices into the hotel room rates how many of us would be going to the brewers vs gamblers series in vegas every year...probably about 90%.
