Comments on: 45 up, 45 down

By: John

John — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:09:24 +0000

The hitters retired in Buehrle’s streak are as follows:

In the game on 18-July against Baltimore, he retired Nick Markakis to begin the streak.

On 23-July against Tampa (the perfecto), the list goes as follows, in the batting order:

B.J. Upton, Carl Crawford, Evan Longoria, Carlos Pena, Ben Zobrist, Pat Burrell, Gabe Kapler, Michel Hernandez, and Jason Bartlett (all three times)

On 28-July @ Minnesota, he began the game with seventeen outs, who were:
Denard Span, Joe Mauer, Justin Morneau, Michael Cuddyer, Joe Crede, Brendan Harris, Carlos Gomez, and Nick Punto (all twice) and Alexi Casilla (once)

In all, he retired nineteen different batters in his forty-five consecutive out streak:

Nine batters three times (the TB lineup from 23-July)
Eight batters twice (the first eight batters in the MIN lineup from 28-July)
Two batters once (Nick Markakis (18-July) and Alexi Casilla (28-July))

Brian Roberts was the last person to get on base off of Buehrle before the streak, singling in the top of the 8th inning on 18-July

Alexi Casilla broke up the streak, walking in the bottom of the sixth inning on 28-July.

By: AP

AP — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:38:58 +0000

NICE JOB
DID YOU HAVE A LIST OF THE RETIRED HITTERS?

By: B

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:12:44 +0000

Those graphs are awesome. Congratulations to Buehrle.

By: sean

sean — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:30:50 +0000

Not really. He was a bit generous for Buehrle, but still missed some calls low in the zone. It helped that it wasn’t a tiny zone and the Twins started swinging at everything.

By: Tom B

Tom B — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:05:43 +0000

he was certainly helped yesterday by quite a few strike calls off the sides of the plate. still impressive, but the ump is yesterdays game was just awful…