Finding stats on MLB postponed games is trickier than I thought

Data is from @Retrosheet + Mark Booth's https://t.co/WLr57HH2fS

Ballparks w/ Most Rainouts* since 2017:
29 Progressive Field
25 Yankee Stadium
25 Citi Field
25 Comerica Park
21 Nationals Park

*also snow, hail pic.twitter.com/htNOJS2xyE

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) September 27, 2024

Physicists have experimented w/ tweaking the traditional design of baseball bats for decades...who knew?

1985: Spalding debuts "Tidal Wave," a water-filled bat

1994: Jeff DiTullio, an aerodynamics instructor at MIT, obtains a patent for a bat that is dimpled like a golf ball https://t.co/EYr4tERiBq pic.twitter.com/cOYQeRLSWa

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) March 31, 2025

Players who threw glove into the stands
Bob Ojeda NYM 4/19/88
Turk Wendell NYM 9/10/00
Willie McGee STL 8/6/90
Luis Tiant NYY 5/30/80
K. Farnsworth CHC 8/28/04
Preacher Roe BRO 8/5/54
Raul Sanchez CIN 8/20/57
Ed Figueroa NYY 7/6/80 pic.twitter.com/bmHzAp8zvB

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) May 30, 2024

Only 5 pitchers in MLB history have started All-Star Game for both the AL & NL

Vida Blue:
1971 OAK
1978 SF

Roger Clemens:
BOS 1986
NYY 2001
HOU 2004 (NL)

Randy Johnson:
SEA 1995, 1997
ARI 2000-01

Roy Halladay:
TOR 2009
PHI 2011

Max Scherzer:
DET 2013
WAS 2017-18, 2021

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) July 13, 2025

Only one player in MLB history has gone 5-for-5 on his birthday and he did it twice.

Fernando Viña went 5-for-5 on his 29th & 31st bdays:
1998-04-16 MIL @ MON
2000-04-16 (2) STL @ COL

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) May 16, 2024

Most strikeouts by a starting pitcher on their birthday:

15 Gerrit Cole 9/8/19 (HOU vs SEA)
14 Randy Johnson 9/10/00 (ARI @ FLA)
13 Stan Williams 9/14/60 (LAD @ PIT)

Here are Cole's 15 Ks on his 29th birthday in 2019 https://t.co/WNPhQumYSi pic.twitter.com/ot0GkDA0br

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) September 8, 2024

Ichiro is one of 4 lefty hitters w/ a lifetime batting avg. above .300 against LHP (since 1974; min. 8000 PA)

Left-handed hitters: Highest Batting Average vs LHP

1) .329 Ichiro Suzuki
2) .325 Tony Gwynn
3) .316 Rod Carew
4) .306 Larry Walker
5) .298 Todd Helton

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) January 23, 2025

Orioles 2024 pinch hitting numbers are extraordinary

After Mouncastle's single, O's pinch hitters:

.328 AVG (40-for-122) / .385 OBP / .443 SLG
11 XBH, HR https://t.co/a9DDrGlsld

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) September 25, 2024

Active MLB players with the same name:

1. Logan Allen + Logan Allen
2. Diego Castillo + Diego Castillo
3. Luis Garcia, Luis Garcia, Luis Garcia + Luis Garcia
4. Luis Ortiz + Luiz Ortiz
5. Will Smith + WIll Smith pic.twitter.com/zZRMjzUJd3

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) July 16, 2024

2 Teams, 2 Games, same day

5/30/1922 Cliff Heathcote - STL, CHC
5/30/1922 Max Flack - STL, CHC
8/4/82 Joel Youngblood - NYM, MON
10/11/92 Deion Sanders - ATL nfl, ATL mlb
4/11/21 Javy Baez* - CHC, NYM

*Didn't play 2 games in 1 day; records make it look so b/c of suspended game

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) July 28, 2024

Aaron Judge kicked off an unusual 8-4-3 double play yesterday from CF

There are only two other 8-4-3 double plays in Yankees history since 1920:

5-26-1928 @ PHA
Earle Combs>Tony Lazzeri>Lou Gehrig

8-31-1950 vs. CLE
Cliff Mapes>Jerry Coleman>Johnny Mize pic.twitter.com/yxJUJZgY75

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) August 27, 2024

David Cone is the only pitcher to record 20-win seasons w/ both the Mets (1988) and Yankees (1998) pic.twitter.com/qg0cYjE7wG

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) July 24, 2024

Angel Hernandez Career Ejection Stats

101 total ejections:
-47 managers
-42 players
-11 coaches
-1 Steve McMichael

1st = Bobby Cox 5/26/92
last = Oli Marmol 3/8/24

Most ejected:
5 Bobby Cox
3 Devon White
3 Joe Torre
3 Ron Gardenhire

Season w/ most = 2006 (7)

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) May 28, 2024

Max Fried is the first player named Max to play baseball for the New York Yankees

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) December 11, 2024

Walker Buehler has 2nd-lowest career walk rate among pitchers named "Walker" (live-ball era)

5.8 BB% Jamie Walker (BAL,DET,KC)
6.5 BB% Walker Buehler (LAD)
7.4 BB% Ryan Walker (SF)
7.8 BB% Roy Walker (STL)
7.9 BB% Tom Walker (CAL,DET,MON,STL)
7.9 BB% Walker Lockett (NYM,SD,SEA)

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) October 28, 2024

Don Zimmer was in uniform for Don Larsen, David Cone and David Wells' respective perfect games - all three!

He was a young infielder on the Dodgers' bench in 1956

As Joe Torre's bench coach for Wells' perfecto in 1998 and Coney's in 1999 https://t.co/mLyMoKQiXK

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) December 18, 2025

In his 1st postseason start Michael King allowed 0 runs and just 1 XBH over 7.0 IP

King is 1 of just 3 SP to pitch 7+ scoreless and allow 1 or fewer XBH in their 1st postseason start since 1920:

Mike Boddicker - 1983 ALCS G2
Mike Scott - 1986 NLCS G1
Michael King - 2024 WC G1

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) October 2, 2024

Since 1920, Stewart + Valenzuela are the only two to pitch a no hitter on the same day.

No hitters have been thrown on the same date in different years

6 of 'em on Apr. 27:

1944 Jim Tobin
1968 Tom Phoebus
1973 Steve Busby
1994 Scott Erikson
2002 Derek Lowe
2003 Kevin Millwood https://t.co/GAk4aYOsE1

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) June 29, 2024

What Cal Raleigh is doing is special--we've never seen consistent slugging like this from a catcher

MLB catchers: most HR in a season
60 Cal Raleigh - 2025
48 Salvador Perez - 2021
45 Johnny Bench - 1970
43 Javy Lopez - 2003
41 Todd Hundley - 1996
41 Roy Campanella - 1953

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) September 25, 2025

MLB games disrupted by earthquakes

7/27/80 OAK @ DET
6/10/87 MIL @ DET
10/18/89 OAK @ SF (WS G3)
4/6/90 OAK @ SF (exhibition)
4/22/92 CIN @ LAD
5/2/96 CLE @ SEA
6/14/10 TOR @ SD
7/5/19 SD @ LAD

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) April 5, 2024

LA's starting pitcher tonight is Burbank native Jack Flaherty

Since 1967, 4 guys have started World Series Game 1 in their hometown. They shoved:

1976 Don Gullett -7.1 IP, 1 ER
1989 Dave Stewart -9 IP, 0 ER, WS MVP
1991 Jack Morris -7 IP, 2 ER, WS MVP
2000 Al Leiter -7 IP, 2 ER https://t.co/7JyTRGYOfl

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) October 25, 2024

Patrick Bailey is the 6th player to hit a walk-off inside-the-park homer since 2000. Fun footage of the other 5 walk-off ITPHR:

1. Bobby Abreu (PHI) 8/27/00
2. Ken Griffey Jr. (CIN) 8/20/01
3. Rey Sánchez (TBD) 6/11/04
4. Ángel Pagán (SFG) 5/25/13
5. Tyler Naquin (CLE) 8/19/16 https://t.co/K6AUADdLfc pic.twitter.com/EJLuhKbneO

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) July 9, 2025

This is the 3rd time Shohei Ohtani & Aaron Judge have both hit HRs in the same game while playing each other:

6/29/2021 - LAA 5 @ NYY 11*
8/29/2022 - NYY 3 @ LAA 4
5/30/2025 - NYY @ LAD (tonight) *Ohtani 2 HR

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) May 31, 2025

Jazz is the 12th player in Yankees history to hit 25+ HR in his first 100 games as a Yankee

39 Babe Ruth
35 Roger Maris
33 Gary Sanchez
30 Aaron Judge
29 Luke Voit
26 Mark Teixeira
26 Jason Giambi
26 Juan Soto
25 Johnny Mize
25 ARod
25 Kevin Maas
25 Jazz Chisholm Jr.

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) July 1, 2025

Lots of scholarship available on physics of baseball

Earliest reference I found to the concept underlining torpedo bats is in a *1963* research paper

Stamford physicist Paul Kirkpatrick describes how shifting a bat's weight toward its handle will maximize its sweet spot https://t.co/FQQ2A5tF77 pic.twitter.com/GjCr0E2dcS

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) April 1, 2025

Baseball's Best Hitters on 0-2 counts
(min. 40 PA)

.359 Paul Goldschmidt (14-for-39)
.350 Alejandro Kirk (14-for-40)
.340 Steven Kwan (16-for-47)
.308 Alex Bregman (12-for-39)
.300 Carlos Narvaez (12-for-40)
.300 TJ Friedl (12-for-40)

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) May 28, 2025

brothers-in-law in baseball.....lots of teammates marrying their teammates' sister(s) pic.twitter.com/dayZTLNJNi

— Erica Block (@EricaDaleBlock) September 20, 2023