Luis Urias to Red Sox
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Thanks. Can you believe it.
@Brand Name any advice on how to determine if grand slams on two consecutive pitches has ever happened before? I wouldn’t begin to know how to look that up.
I don't think so, he could take 12 pitches in a row and walk or K. Consecutive pitches is right, and I can't imagine it has ever been done before.
Also, his final at bat may have been more impressive than the grand slam. Got down 0-2 and ended up working a walk. Numbers obviously still aren't great overall, but he's a professional hitter who seriously lengthens the lineup.
Also Jim Gentile on May 9, 1961. Believe those are the only prior two.
Thank you! So this one is in part tough to truly know to an extent since counts in the regular season were first only officially recorded in 1988. Really. Dodgers games are a bit better there in this regard though, since statistician Allan Roth would track this back in the 1950s, way ahead of his time.
But it does help that we'd know consecutive grand slams first, since that clearly limits a lot of names. Took a little unconventional bits to find the 1961 name as much.
Urias with the Sox so far:
10 g, 36 pa, 31 ab, 4 r, 8 h, 1 2b, 0 3b, 2 hr, 9 rbi, 4 bb, 9 k, .258 avg
Off to a good start for Boston.
10 g, 36 pa, 31 ab, 4 r, 8 h, 1 2b, 0 3b, 2 hr, 9 rbi, 4 bb, 9 k, .258 avg
Off to a good start for Boston.
On the radio broadcast Will and Joe mentioned several more names for GSs on consecutive pitches, including Fernando Tatis Sr when he did it in the same inning back in ‘99
(Just looked it up — that wasn’t consecutive pitches, as the second came on a full count. So maybe all the names they mentioned were consecutive at bats…)
(Just looked it up — that wasn’t consecutive pitches, as the second came on a full count. So maybe all the names they mentioned were consecutive at bats…)
If there was the name Josh Willingham in there, he was the most recent for consecutive at-bats before today.
That or it's possibly multiple grand slams in the same game...which the Red Sox have done this the last three teams by an AL team: Urias 2023, Mueller 2003, Nomar 1999. Which is funny given the two retrospective threads we've had of late are about those guys. Beyond that, Jim Tabor in 1939 and Rudy York in 1946 also had two slams in the same game for the Sox.
@Brand Name curious if you have tried any of the AI tools for stats? Google Bard makes quick work of annoying things like “what were the Red Sox records after X games in the last 20 years?”
I have not! This is genuinely the first I'm hearing of them, so certainly haven't tried them. Thanks for this.
And another " This is why I love this place" moment is upon us. Thanks, Uncannymanny!I have not! This is genuinely the first I'm hearing of them, so certainly haven't tried them. Thanks for this.
This sounds like the figment of someone's aggrieved imagination. Why would anyone have applauded acquiring DeJong? He's been terrible since mid-season 2019 and was acquired by the Jays for a single minor leaguer who's a non-prospect only because they were worried about an injury to Bichette. Sure, he performed even worse in Toronto, but it turned out they had no need for him anyway.
There were people who want Tim Anderson at the deadline and he can’t hit , field or fight. When Story went down people wanted shortstops that haven’t been good in years.
But they had to win a series to get to the ALCS
Doing a quick search of DeJong's name in the trade deadline threads here, there were a few mentions of him as a possible target for the Sox in the lead up to the deadline. To be fair, it seems like most mentions were as part of a package that included a starting pitcher (Flaherty, Montgomery, etc). Kind of a fill all the holes in one deal thing. So while he wasn't necessarily a direct target, he definitely got more mentions than Urias as a desirable target to address the middle infield at the deadline.
I don't know if that is quite indicative that people would be "applauding" a trade for him, but it's not as though he wasn't on people's radar.
Bradley Blalock was added to the Brewers 40-man roster today.
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