Dedicated to Craig Biggio and his (probably unintentional) Quest to break the all time major league career record for getting hit by pitches.
Nobody got plunked in the all-star game yesterday, and there isn't any baseball today - not even anything baseball-like, except maybe in the minor leagues, so quit hanging around the internet and go read a book or something.
| 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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1 Comments:
I just want to say one thing: You might be able to take steroids so you can hit more home runs, or steal more bases, or have a better batting average, but no matter how much drugs you take, it's NOT going to help your plunk totals. You still have to stand there and take the pitch, and the pitcher still has to bean you. Sure, a drugged-up ball-player might be more insensitive to pain, but they also have to be a good enough ball player to stay in the big leagues long enough to accumulate their impressive list of plunks, and that takes skill. You have to be a good enough hitter that the pitcher wants to intimidate you to get you to shy off. Nobody beans a guy who can't hit ... or at least, that's what I believe (Although I think I know a guy who could correlate plunking percentages against batting average and see if the rate of plunking is statistically lower for hitters who are currently batting poorly). Hitters get plunked, but good hitters get plunked more, because they get to hit more, and they are a threat to the pitcher. That's my theory.
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