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Aug. 31st, 2005 12:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rsc... or anyone else who watches the Mariners (or even [gasp] the Yankees) on TV.
All fans know how statistics-conscious baseball broadcasters are, and how they like to tell you that this is the seventh time in the history of the game that a left-handed batter has scored exactly five runs in a day game, and interesting stuff like that.
So I'm wondering if any broadcaster has mentioned, either during last night's game or any other recent Mariners game, how many times there have been players batting successively whose first names begin with Y.
I'm referring, of course to those two Mariners immortals Yorvit Torrealba and Yuniesky Betancourt.
They need to trade with the Cardinals for Yadier Molina so they can go for the trifecta. Oh wait, Torrealba and Molina are both catchers? Well, one of them will have to DH.
All fans know how statistics-conscious baseball broadcasters are, and how they like to tell you that this is the seventh time in the history of the game that a left-handed batter has scored exactly five runs in a day game, and interesting stuff like that.
So I'm wondering if any broadcaster has mentioned, either during last night's game or any other recent Mariners game, how many times there have been players batting successively whose first names begin with Y.
I'm referring, of course to those two Mariners immortals Yorvit Torrealba and Yuniesky Betancourt.
They need to trade with the Cardinals for Yadier Molina so they can go for the trifecta. Oh wait, Torrealba and Molina are both catchers? Well, one of them will have to DH.
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Date: 2005-08-31 06:39 pm (UTC)The first night Yuniesky played was hilarious. None of them could come close to pronouncing his name and a couple of them nearly hurt themselves trying. They never did get it right.
The second night, the really smart one nailed it. I noticed last weekend that one of the rotaters was still having trouble.
But, to answer your question, they have talked about players who's names start with Y but I'm not sure they've nailed the batting successively detail. And I'm actually kind of surpised because the senior producer - he does radio and TV and has been around since forever - usually catches cool stuff like that.