Very Late Original Shea

[dinosaur jesus]

Do switch hitters count if they hit more than 23 from the left side?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Not for the quick-and-dirty purpose of this quiz, no.



Who might have done that? Carlos Beltran? Howard Johnson?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Not for the quick-and-dirty purpose of this quiz, no. Who might have done that? Carlos Beltran? Howard Johnson?

Todd Hundley?

[Frayed Knot]

A ridiculous 35 of Hundley's 41 1996 HRs were hit off RHPs, and in '97 it was 27 of 30, so, yeah, on both accounts.

I remembered his splits as being lopsided, but not to that degree.

[Edgy MD]

I checked. Beltra, Hojo, and Hunds all hit more than 23 lefthanded at least once.



When Hundley hit his 41, a full 35 of them were lefthanded.



Jeff McNeil hit exactly 23 back in 2019.

[Frayed Knot]

Beltran once: 2006 = 33 vs RHP / 8 vs LHP

HoJo did so twice: 1989 = 29/7, 1991 24/14

[Willets Point]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Willets Point wrote: My family took a 10-day trip to Ireland in September 1979 so I might have been there or getting ready to depart. I missed a couple of weeks of first grade but back then no one had conniptions about "learning loss." The first Mets game I remember attending was in June 1980 (The Steve Henderson Game) and we sat in the orange field level seats. Were those installed/repainted in the 79-80 offseason? They replaced the original wooden seats with plastic seats sometime around 1981. I have, in my basement, a couple of fragments of the original wooden seats. There was a big pile of them, free for the taking, against a wall just inside one of the gates. My friends and I each gathered a few pieces on our way out of the stadium one day.

I guess my memory of orange seats was a false one then.

[G-Fafif]

The new seats came in 1980. The walls got painted blue in the second half.

[Edgy MD]

I'm pretty sure I was at the first game with the blue walls. It was pretty stunning.

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: A ridiculous 35 of Hundley's 41 1996 HRs were hit off RHPs, and in '97 it was 27 of 30, so, yeah, on both accounts.

I would suspect that was roughly in proportion to the ratio of righty pitchers he faced versus left handers. No?



Later

[Edgy MD]

Not quite, no. He was meaningfully more effective against righties.



He had 72% of his plate appearances against righties, but 85% of his homers.

[Frayed Knot]

I was gonna say, LHPs typically throw somewhere between 1/4 to 1/3 of ML innings.

[batmagadanleadoff]

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September 9, 1979. Where were youse?



That was the only run Burrris allowed that game.Mets blow a 4-1ead to the eventual WS champs. John Stearns goes 3 for 4 with a walk and a double, but was also caught stealing - the weakest part of his game.

[Fman99]

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=Fman99 post_id=58454 time=1616587466 user_id=86]
=batmagadanleadoff post_id=58452 time=1616585938 user_id=68]
September 9, 1979. Where were youse?



That was the only run Burrris allowed that game.Mets blow a 4-1ead to the eventual WS champs. John Stearns goes 3 for 4 with a walk and a double, but was also caught stealing - the weakest part of his game.

[batmagadanleadoff]

=Fman99 post_id=58548 time=1616612884 user_id=86]
=batmagadanleadoff post_id=58534 time=1616609008 user_id=68]
=Fman99 post_id=58454 time=1616587466 user_id=86]
=batmagadanleadoff post_id=58452 time=1616585938 user_id=68]
September 9, 1979. Where were youse?



That was the only run Burrris allowed that game.Mets blow a 4-1ead to the eventual WS champs. John Stearns goes 3 for 4 with a walk and a double, but was also caught stealing - the weakest part of his game.