tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post4650405360508761801..comments2024-03-28T07:19:18.670-07:00Comments on the joy of sox: G68: Astros 7, Red Sox 1allanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04673233312198832937noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-33412057146316268372017-06-17T20:01:16.151-07:002017-06-17T20:01:16.151-07:00I also discovered that the MLB record for most hit...I also discovered that the MLB record for most hits allowed in a season (since 1901) is 412, by Joe McGinnity of the 1901 Giants. Of the top 26 seasons, though, only one is from the last 87 years. And that is Wilbur Wood (#6), who gave up 381 hits in 359.1 innings for the 1973 White Sox.<br /><br />If we look at all seasons since 1871, we find that John Coleman, a 20-year-old rookie, allowed 772 hits for the 1883 Philadelphia Quakers (National League). (There are 215 individual seasons from 1871-1900 that top McGinnity's 412 hits allowed!)allanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673233312198832937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-14622742467557974862017-06-17T12:07:22.995-07:002017-06-17T12:07:22.995-07:00Along with my usual issue with the "leading a...Along with my usual issue with the "leading after..." stats (which is that they're never given with context), I don't like how they don't go by half-inning. Let's say you're down 1-0 after 8. You bat in the top of the ninth and take a 2-1 lead. Your closer comes in and blows it in the bottom of the ninth. And let's say that happens 25 times. NONE of those games count toward the "when leading after 8" stat. Yet you're blowing games all the time in the very last inning, which is presumably what the stat is trying to tell you.Jerehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13448619048422750447noreply@blogger.com