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I just love it during a game when the stat guy feeds things to the announcers. Last night the Giants had a rookie at Short Stop named Casey Schmitt. He was playing in his third big league game, filling in for Brandon Crawford who has a mild calf tightness and should return soon.
Well Schmitt has started off with a bang hitting his first home run and totalling eight hits in his first three games. He was four-for-four last night including his first career double and his second home run. That ties a record stat that has been kept since 1901. He is tied with Willie McCovey. Imagine three games into your career and you are in the record books next to Willie Mac.
Hopefully he has a long and great career with the Giants.
Bristlecone
(10,490 posts)4-4, with 1st double, and second HR?
8 hits in 1st 3 games?
Willie Mac didnt play in 1901, so wonder who set whatever record this is?
Not criticizing in any way. Just want to know.
Also, sometimes these stats are just silly.
Mr.Bill
(24,795 posts)Rereading my post, I admit I wasn't clear on this. And yes, some stats are kind of silly.
It reminds me of a scene in the movie Mr. Baseball with Tom Selleck. He's an aging baseball star and they tell him he's been sold to a Japanese team. He doesn't like this, and he says "I was the MVP in the All-Star game!" (OR World Series, can't remember) The coach says "That was three years ago." Selleck counters with "I led the division in triples in August!"
Being in the NL West myself Ill have to keep my eye out for him.
Appreciate it.
ProfessorGAC
(69,898 posts)...are still interesting. I think this is one of them.
Being only one of 2 to accomplish anything in 122 years is inherently interesting. But, it sure isn't predictive of anything.
He's not going to be a career .615 hitter! Pretty sure, anyway.
Mr.Bill
(24,795 posts)In the first four games of a career, that puts him in a 25-way tie for second place with nine hits. There are ten players who have ten.
10 guys had 10 hits in their first four games?!?!?
I think that's an amazingly high number.
I would not have guessed 10 if I had all day to consider an answer.
I would have been trying to decide between 1, 2 or 3.
Mr.Bill
(24,795 posts)Wilie Mays went 0 - 12 in his major league debut. He broke the streak with a home run.
Brother Buzz
(37,814 posts)Willie Mays holds the record for hitting home runs in the most different innings. Mays hit at least one home run in every inning from one to sixteen. His first-inning and sixteenth-inning home runs, both off Warren Spahn, are the most noteworthy. The one in the first inning was the first of Mayss career, and the sixteenth-inning blast broke up one of the all-time great pitching duels and provided a 1-0 victory for Juan Marichal.
Mr.Bill
(24,795 posts)but I think Ihave heard that they estimate Marichal threw something like 285 pitches that day.
Brother Buzz
(37,814 posts)Both high-kickers would agree, "That Pitch count thingy is for wussies".
Warren Spahn was 42 years old, and two years later he finished his career with the Giants. Oh, but to be a fly on the wall when Spahn met Mays and Marichal.