O-o-T-S -- Week of 6/13

[Frayed Knot]

Cubs @ Nationals in the first of three
Scherzer perfect thru 5 w/9 Ks on less than 60 pitches.
1-0 Nats - middle 5th.

[Frayed Knot]

Perfect game got busted up by a HR with one out in the 6th. Scherzer wound up going 7 in a combined 2-hit 4-1 win for the Nationals.

One thing about being now five full games behind the Nats is that they'll have their complement of Cubs games out of the way before we even have our first - and that's not a good thing.

[seawolf17]

Fish/Padres tonight, which means we could wind up with our first Battle of the Seawolves, as Tom Koehler starts for Miami. Travis Jankowski left last night's game with an injury, though, so I don't know if he'll get in tonight.

[Frayed Knot]

Two hits for Ichiro this afternoon (although in a Marlins loss) which moves him ahead of Pete Rose if all his Japanese & MLB hits are counted.
And he's now just 21 short of 3K for his ML career

[Zvon]

Frayed Knot wrote: Two hits for Ichiro this afternoon (although in a Marlins loss) which moves him ahead of Pete Rose if all his Japanese & MLB hits are counted. And he's now just 21 short of 3K for his ML career

An amazing baseball player. If he started playing here at 21 or so he would have past Pete, no doubt.

And who'd a thought Petener would be so territorial about his record.

[Frayed Knot]

Zvon wrote: An amazing baseball player. If he started playing here at 21 or so he would have past Pete, no doubt.

Hard to tell because of the different leagues, eras, conditions, countries that they grew up in.
Ichiro was playing in the NPL as an 18 year old and was a full-timer by 20, something that's virtually unheard of here. That's what allowed him to be a FA by age 26 (even under the more restrictive rules in Japan) and then have as long a career as he has over here. Pete came up in 1963 at the beginning of the most dominant pitching time since the dead-ball era; Ichiro shows up in the 2000's just as MLB offense was at its peak. On the other hand they play shorter seasons in Japan, yadda, yadda.

Pete, not surprisingly, is being a bit of an ass about it when asked, possibly because most of his clothing has 'HIT KING - 4,256' embroidered on it somewhere.