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Lou Gehrig, with 1,515 runs batted in as a cleanup hitter, has "cleaned up" the most bases of any cleanup hitter in Major League Baseball history. In baseball, a cleanup hitter is the fourth hitter in the batting order. The cleanup hitter is traditionally the team's most powerful hitter.
In the 1943 World Series he batted .294 as the clean-up hitter, but St. Louis lost the rematch with the Yankees. In 1944 , Cooper's average dipped only slightly to .317 as the Cardinals won their third straight pennant , facing the crosstown St. Louis Browns in the World Series ; again batting cleanup, he hit .318 in the Series and scored the ...
In 1869, another early baseball proponent, Alfred Wright, published an end-of-season summary that included the average number of times a batter had "clean" hits on a per game basis. [3] In 1871, a writer for the New York Clipper , Hervie Dobson, proposed that a batter's "average is found by dividing his total 'times first base on clean hits' by ...
The main pressure on the eighth hitter comes when there are two outs: in this case, he must battle the pitcher to get on base so that the ninth hitter can come up. That way, even if the ninth hitter gets out, the top of the order comes up next. Very often the #7 hitter is a catcher, commonly the slowest baserunner on a team whose lack of speed ...
The idea is simple. Once a game, a manager gets to put his best batter at the plate regardless of where the batting order stands. So imagine, as a pitcher facing the Dodgers, you get Shohei Ohtani ...
The Cubs went from 1972 (Milt Pappas) to 2008 (Carlos Zambrano) without a no-hitter, but have five in the past 16 years: Jake Arrieta (2015 and 2016), Alec Mills (2020) and the 2021 combined no-no ...
The game ended as Esteury Ruiz grounded to third baseman Josh Donaldson, who threw to first baseman Anthony Rizzo to record the final out. [8] Germán recorded his 500th career strikeout during the game. [16] It was the fourth perfect game in Yankees history, after games thrown by Don Larsen in 1956, by David Wells in 1998, and David Cone in 1999.
It was exactly 64 years ago that the first baseball game was broadcast on television in color. WCBS-TV in New York City broadcast the Boston Braves beating the Brooklyn Dodgers by an 8-1 score.