Dedicated to Craig Biggio and his (probably unintentional) Quest to break the all time major league career record for getting hit by pitches.
Chris Capuano was able to put the clamps on the Astros offense last night and the Brewers avoided a sweep with a 7-2 win. Craig Biggio hit a sacrifice fly driving in 1 of the Astros 2 runs, but he did not get hit by any of the 13 pitches thrown his way.
| Hughie Jennings | 287 |
| Craig Biggio | |
| Tommy Tucker | 272 |
| Don Baylor | 267 |
Games left =
Updated to include games through
Last Plunk:
| Reader | Date |
| Softball Chic | May 25 |
| DM | June 20 |
| Deputy Marshall | July 3 |
| Justin | July 8 |
| Kenny | July 18 |
| RETED | July 21 |
| Lionstone | July 29 |
| Lord Elicani | August 2 |
| Dave | August 6 |
| Ted | August 10 |
| Kate | August 12 |
| Matt | August 18 |
| Cletus | August 20 |
| Two Dogs | August 29 |
| Blue Genie | Sept 1 |
| Wesley | Sept 8 |
| Cat | Sept 11 |
| Cletus's Mama | Sept 30 |
| Reader | Date |
| Lionstone | June 17 |
| Robert | June 19 |
| DM | June 20 |
| RETED | June 21 |
| Kate | June 23 |
| Matt | June 26 |
| ACTUAL! | June 28 |
| Kim | June 30 |
| Lord Elicani | July 1 |
| Cletus's Mama | July 2 |
| Dave | July 4 |
| Ted | July 6 |
| Wesley | July 7 |
| Justin | July 8 |
| Cletus | July 10 |
| Softball Chic | July 14 |
| Kenny | July 18 |
| Deputy Marshall | July 22 |
| Cat | Sept 11 |
| Two Dogs | Sept 16 |
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2 Comments:
Here's a good plunking question: do we have any data on the the relative likelihood of being plunked by a left-handed pitcher vs. a righty? I guess I'd imagine that a right-handed pitcher might be a bit more likely to hit a right-handed batter than would a left-handed thrower, but I wonder if the stats bear that out. And how about for Our Man Biggio specifically?
I touched on this briefly last year - Biggio's current count is 220 plunks from right handers and 55 from lefties. What I don't have complete data on is how many plate appearances he has against each, so it's hard to pinpoint how much of that is facing more right handers and how much is right handers hitting him at a greater rate. If you look at the partial career splits on retrosheet, the sample they have of 121 plunks shows that he's been hit 0.023 times per plate appearance against right handers and 0.015 times per plate appearance against lefties. Looking at Fernando Vina, the most plunked left handed batter in recent history, his splits show 0.054 plunks per plate appearance against lefties and 0.030 against right handers. These splits are partial, but they're probably a big enough sample to be representative, even if Vina had a whole lot more plate appearance against right handers.
Also, take a look at Roger Clemens and Randy Johnson. Clemens hit 1 per 125 right handers he faced but only 1 of every 170 left handers. Johnson hit 1 in 33 lefties in the sample, and only 1 in 111 righties.
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