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The definitive guide to 103 HBP ... a few notable items:
• Seriously high leverage: 44 of the 103 HBP came on two-strike counts!
• The record was set despite Sizemore and Garko combining for 11 fewer HBP than they did in 2007.
• Verlander hit an Indian six times, twice as many as any other pitcher.
• The Tigers hit the Indians 21 times, next highest team only had 12. The Indians hit the Tigers only 7 times, and probably three of those were intentional. Five different Tigers delivered their first career HBP to an Indian this season.
• Out of 72 different pitchers plunking an Indian this season, not one was a former Indian, unless you count Foulke.
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Jay
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Verlander hit an Indian six times, twice as many as any other pitcher.
that’s double the sheffield system. shouldn’t we be allowed to stab him or poke his eye out or something now?
by Brick. on
Oct 2, 2008 10:25 AM EDT
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44% of Detroit’s HBP came against Cleveland (21) and Chicago (9). That’s twice the percentage of their total games that they played against those two teams.
by FredOx on
Oct 2, 2008 1:21 PM EDT
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Imagine if Detroit’s pitchers could actually throw it where they intended. They’d have hit us 50 times at least!
by peter m on
Oct 2, 2008 1:24 PM EDT
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That’s gotta be photoshopped right? Did he farm his mustache from his eyebrows?
by rockemsockem on
Oct 3, 2008 9:23 PM EDT
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I’d like to think I would photoshop something so subtle. But alas.
Steel Nick
by nickjs21 on
Oct 4, 2008 12:36 AM EDT
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