It's Bartolo Colón and the Minnesota Twins visiting Luis Severino and the New York Yankees. The game is well underway this Wednesday afternoon, already in the top of the third.
The count runs full and Mauer is fouling pitches away as I look up the numbers on Joe D. Another foul.
Yogi never struck out more than 35 times. His career OPS was .830.
Sánchez out to the mound again.
"I'm telling you, when they finally stop this it'll be the Sánchez rule," says Suzyn.
Another foul. John guesses that's five fouls on the 3-2 count. Mauer steps out. Base hit—one run crosses the plate in the person of Kennys Vargas. That's Mauer's 66th RBI. Larry Rothschild will visit the mound. Mauer has fanned 74 times this year. His career OPS is .835.
Jorge Polanco singles, two runs score, it's 3-0 Twins. There's some runs for you to work with, Gut!
Severino is laboring. He's at 77 pitches in the third inning. Sewell's salad days were with Cleveland. He had a .935 OPS in 1923. Buxton strikes out. In his career Sewell scored ten runs for every strikeout he recorded. Not bad!
But hey, it's much more important to the Rockies that this game take a long time to complete than it is to me. The Rockies' lead over Milwaukee in the NL Wild Card race has winnowed to one game. It'll be a half-game lead if they don't start scoring some runs this afternoon in San Francisco.
Yankee HOF Strikeout Totals
There's no score but the Twins have the bases loaded with one out, Joe Mauer at bat. John and Suzyn are talking Joe DiMaggio and Yogi Berra, a couple of Hall of Famers who didn't strike out much. The highest single-season strikeout total for Joltin' Joe was 39, in his rookie year. His career OPS was .977—not bad!The count runs full and Mauer is fouling pitches away as I look up the numbers on Joe D. Another foul.
Yogi never struck out more than 35 times. His career OPS was .830.
Sánchez out to the mound again.
"I'm telling you, when they finally stop this it'll be the Sánchez rule," says Suzyn.
Another foul. John guesses that's five fouls on the 3-2 count. Mauer steps out. Base hit—one run crosses the plate in the person of Kennys Vargas. That's Mauer's 66th RBI. Larry Rothschild will visit the mound. Mauer has fanned 74 times this year. His career OPS is .835.
Jorge Polanco singles, two runs score, it's 3-0 Twins. There's some runs for you to work with, Gut!
A Different Hall of Famer Named Joe
I wanted to mention, in the midst of this strikeout talk, a player referred to on one of the broadcasts last night, I can't recall which one. The player was Joe Sewell, a shortstop, a Hall of Famer in his own right. Sewell never struck out more that 20 times in a season. In 1925, he logged 608 at-bats, walked 64 times and struck out four times! That's the golden sombrero not over the course of one game but over the course of an entire season! Sewell had nine seasons of single-digit strikeout totals, his at-bats in those seasons ranging from 353 to 608. In his career he walked 842 times and struck out 114 times. His career OPS was .804.Severino is laboring. He's at 77 pitches in the third inning. Sewell's salad days were with Cleveland. He had a .935 OPS in 1923. Buxton strikes out. In his career Sewell scored ten runs for every strikeout he recorded. Not bad!
Golden Gate Bridge?
Rockies at Giants is the only game in town. In the top of the fifth, it's 3-0 Giants. Arenado, FO 6. With 24 outs remaining, this game needs to go 117 minutes to bridge the afternoon to the evening slate. At 4.875 minutes per out, that's equivalent to a full game runtime of over four hours—not likely, assuming extra innings aren't in the offing.But hey, it's much more important to the Rockies that this game take a long time to complete than it is to me. The Rockies' lead over Milwaukee in the NL Wild Card race has winnowed to one game. It'll be a half-game lead if they don't start scoring some runs this afternoon in San Francisco.
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