Why would I? Postseason stats dont count. If Ohtani hit five homers in a World Series game it wouldn’t be the single game homerun record. It would be irrelevant.
Nonsense, of course they count. Post-season and regular seasons stats aren’t commingled, but they are both certainly real things that reflect actual events that really happened and are recorded.
“Whoops, you got me on a technicality.”
That’s all you gotta say.
Is that true? I believe that records like “most home runs in a season” only include the regular season. That makes sense, because some players would be at a disadvantage for having fewer games to try to set the record.
Would a single-game record not count if it was in the postseason? There’s no advantage to it; a game is a game.
When I said ‘ghost runner era’ the postseason became irrelevant because there isn’t a ghost runner in the postseason. It’s not exactly complicated.
In a word, no. Separate record/statistics are counted for postseason games.
But…I’m not sure that there currently are any postseason or WS individual records that exceed regular season records.
I think @Munch is right, he got you on a technicality. The ghost runner era began on a certain date and continues to today. The era doesn’t get put on hold when the playoffs commence. The ghost runner, however, does.
Which just points out how ridiculous the rule is. Are they saying, well, regular season games aren’t that important, so we can have this Mickey Mouse rule, but when we get to the postseason, it’s time to get serious?
See NHL overtime regulations.
As well as the NFL.
For that matter see much of soccer. For example, there are no penalty kicks to decide ties in the group games.
Who had more inside the park home runs, Rickey Henderson or Prince Fielder?
Pitchers by WAR who did not win a Cy Young Award, bearing in mind Satch can’t be on the list because Negro League players didn’t play enough regular season games to pile up their numbers:
- Cy Young, 166
- Walter Johnson, 155
- Kid Nichols, 199
- Grover Cleveland Alexander, 117
- Lefty Grove, 113
- Christy Mathewson, 101
- Phil Niekro, 97
- Bert Blyleven, 96
- Tim Keefe, 89
- Eddie Plank, 88
If we go by pitchers in the Cy Young Award era:
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Phil Niekro, 97
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Bert Blyleven, 86
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Nolan Ryan, 84
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Mike Mussina, 83
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Curt Schilling, 81
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Don Sutton, 68
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Kevin Brown, 68
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Rick Reuschel, 68
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Luis Tiant, 66
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Tommy John, 62
Ha, guess I’ll take that back! I always underestimate the deadball era and prior pitchers, because they could rack up so many innings and games each season, with relatively low counting stats in other categories. I mean, in 1896 Cy Young led the league in Ks with all of 140 over the course of 414 IP (which didn’t even lead the league!).
Cy WAS legitimately great though. If you change his innings pitched to more 20th century standards he’s still piling up value, basically as great a pitcher over his career as Bob Gibson. The real knock against him is I’m not sure the NL in 1892 is “major league baseball” but I guess you have to draw a line somewhere.
Kind of a new occurrence just happened:
The Cubs/Blue Jays game was rained out in Chicago yesterday. The Cubs went on the road to New York for a series against the Mets. The game today was rained out.
When was the last time that occurred?
According to Google, a team hadn’t been rained out two successive games in different cities since the Detroit Wolverines vs. St. Louis Browns (October 20–21, 1887).
That is unbelievable.
I never would have guessed. You’d figure it had to have happened at least once between now and then.
Well, really. Especially considering there were no domed stadiums until the Astrodome opened in 1965. And even today there are only eight, out of 30.
And there are often road trips to very nearby cities that could be impacted by the same storm system, particularly in the northeast. It is honestly one of the most unbelievable stats I’ve ever read. If someone had asked me how often it happens, I would have guessed somewhere between 1x every year to 1x every 2 years.
I actually am struggling to believe this, but this is a weirder thing to verify than you might think, and Google is shit.
One cite said the Phillies endured ten rainouts in a row in 1909. I went to the season results and of course they didn’t. The claim was that August 18 was their tenth in a row - but they played a game on August 18, and had played one on August 14.
That said this seems SO unlikely to me, especially when back in the day you had more games between teams in parks close enough to one another that they’d be affected by the same weather systems.,