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Baseball Taking Much-Needed Milestone Break [Baseball Records]
Published 5/12/2008 by Leitch at Deadspin
... very quickly. Weighting the 618 PA scenario as 40%, and the other three as 10%, 30%, and 20%, respectively, we come to odds of 1 in 546. If he keeps this up (unlikely), some enterprising gambling site will probably offer odds on whether he'll hit .400. I'll be interested to see what they are, although I'm sure they'll be absolutely terrible. If they were listed now, I think they'd probably be along the lines of 50:1, maybe even 25:1. To be fair, Chipper is already 3-for-3 today. Baseball is entering a stage now when records will fall at a far ...

The Griddle: Waste a lot, want a lot
Published 5/12/2008 at The Griddle
The Pittsburgh Pirates won the first game of their doubleheader at home against the Atlanta Braves today by a 5-0 margin . The Braves managed to leave 15 runners on base in the game. The Braves got 8 hits, 6 walks, and had 2 batters reach on errors. One of the runners was erased on a double play. The last team to leave 15 runners on base in a 9-inning game and not score was Colorado back on August 13, 2005 against Washington. The record for most runners left on base in a 9-inning shutout is 16. Seattle did it against Toronto on May 7, 1998 and St. Louis did it against Philadelphia on May 24, 1994 .