Baseball

"The fervor over San Francisco’s glorious new baseball park was cresting. It didn’t matter that the first game was delayed several weeks by a tough winter. When Opening Day at Ewing Field came on May 16, 1914, thousands of fans traversed up to Lone Mountain and poured into their new baseball home."

That one person who didn't vote for Ichiro better fess up....

That's a lot of money

And the Yankees are in the running for one of the ugliest performances in World Series history, competing with the 2007 Colorado Rockies. The 1919 White Sox put up more of a fight. In the final game, scorekeepers did New York a favor assigning only three errors instead of four. From Judge dropping a routine flyout, to Cole going on vacation instead of covering 1st, to Volpe's throwing error, etc. the Yankees have once again proven that being able to hit isn't worth a damn if you can't also play solid fundamental baseball. I don't know what the future has in store for Boone, but if I'm the owner of the Yankees, watching them piss away a World Series looking bored and defeated and making mistakes that D3 college players never make, I'd have a new manager by November 1st.

The Dodgers played solid, adaptable baseball both in the World Series and in the postseason. They went into every game ready to do the best they could do, and it produced results. Personally, I am a Braves fan, and my own team reminded me of the pennant-winning Yankees: sloppy, confused, and annoyed to still be there. So, while I am in the abstract pleased for Freddie Freeman, and happy that Shohei Ohtani now has a ring, I am now back to hating the Dodgers. I have nothing more to add. Hopefully a Dodgers fan on Lemmy can comment exultation in their victory, as is their due.

On Monday, the mayor marched down Fifth Avenue during the annual Columbus Day Parade wearing a baseball cap supporting BOTH the Yankees and Mets! The hat featured a Mets logo on one side, an "X" in between and a Yankees logo on the other side. ... "No wonder Eric Adams got indicted, that hat is a crime against humanity," one user wrote in a post on X, formally Twitter.

cross-posted from: https://fanaticus.social/post/4276069

I'm sure this has happened before, but I'm not finding any stats that tell me when. Does anyone know how to look that up?

Edit: Apparently this is the first time! https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-division-series-tied-1-1-for-first-time

LFGM

• 4,256 career hits
• 3,215 career singles
• 3,562 career games played
• 14,053 career at-bats
• 15,890 career plate appearances

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20120691

Baseball in Bhutan [3840 x 2160]

Photo by Matthew Desantis. Upscaled to 4k.

This comes from an interesting article on mlb.com explaining how one of the most remote countries on earth picked up baseball.

This year they were invited to visit New York by the Yankees, and met with the legendary Aaron Judge.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17604055

https://www.mlb.com/

https://www.mlb.com/news/2024-all-star-game-rosters

Title Edit: bottom of the 7th

Title Edit2: updated score, dodgers lost

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16723784

Title edit: format, more info, 8th inning

Josh Gibson became Major League Baseball's career leader with a .372 batting average, surpassing Ty Cobb's .367, when Negro Leagues records for more than 2,300 players were incorporated Tuesday after a three-year research project.

Gibson's .466 average for the 1943 Homestead Grays became the season standard, followed by Charlie "Chino" Smith's .451 for the 1929 New York Lincoln Giants. They overtook the .440 by Hugh Duffy for the National League's Boston team in 1894.

Gibson also became the career leader in slugging percentage (.718) and OPS (1.177), moving ahead of Babe Ruth (.690 and 1.164).

"This initiative is focused on ensuring that future generations of fans have access to the statistics and milestones of all those who made the Negro Leagues possible," baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement. "Their accomplishments on the field will be a gateway to broader learning about this triumph in American history and the path that led to Jackie Robinson's 1947 Dodger debut."

A special committee on baseball records decided in 1969 to recognize six major leagues dating to 1876: the National (which launched in 1876), the American (1901), the American Association (1882-1891), Union Association (1884), Players' League (1890) and Federal League (1914-1915). It excluded the National Association (1871-75), citing an "erratic schedule and procedures."

MLB announced in December 2020 that it would be "correcting a longtime oversight" by adding the Negro Leagues. John Thorn, MLB's official historian, chaired a 17-person committee that included Negro Leagues experts and statisticians.

MLB umpire Ángel Hernández is retiring effective immediately, ending a controversial three-decade-long career that in recent years turned Hernández into a source of consternation with players and a punching bag among fans on social media.

The 62-year-old Hernández, who in a statement confirmed earlier reports he would be retiring, reached a settlement to leave Major League Baseball, according to a source, and will leave after umpiring thousands of games since his debut in 1991.

Hernández, who worked his last game May 9 and was replaced on Lance Barksdale's crew by Jacob Metz, sued MLB in 2017, alleging the league had engaged in racial discrimination. The lawsuit was thrown out by a district court judge, a decision upheld by an appeals court last year.

With a penchant for bad calls -- during a 2018 playoff game, he had three calls reversed by replay in the first four innings -- Hernández received a disproportionate amount of odium from fans. The lawsuit only added to the animus Hernández generated, and the groundswell grew to the point that Hernández retired after missing much of the 2023 season with a back injury.