Random Baseball Musings

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Rafael Devers has as many strikeouts in the 2025 season as Tony Gwynn had the entirety of the 1995 season.

Striking example of how the game has fundamentally changed.

[Radbird]

Click to read the rest of the story. I’ve copied it below in case you’d rather not do that.

Story by Mark Grace....
Rick Sutcliffe gave up back-to-back Home Run`s in Cincinnati. And in Cincinnati, they shoot off fireworks after a Red hits a home run. Sutcliffe was pretty intense on the day he pitched. So Eric Davis takes him deep, and Paul O'Neill takes him deep right after that. So Sutcliffe is all mad, and pitching coach Billy Connors comes out to the mound and Sutcliffe yells at him,
"I know I gave up back-to-back home runs, but get your ass back in the dugout and tell Zimmer to settle down too!"
Billy looks at him and says,
"I know you have everything under control, Rick. I just wanted to give that guy running the fireworks a little more time to reload."
With apologies to Mr. Sutcliffe, still my favorite baseball story!

[CardsofSTL]

[Fat_Bulldog]

John Tudor was my favorite as a kid.

[CardsofSTL]

John Tudor was my favorite as a kid.

no me