AJ Burnett: Statistical Anomaly June 21, 2010
Posted by tomflesher in Baseball.Tags: 2 outs, Adam LaRoche, AJ Burnett, baseball-reference.com, first inning, home run, Justin Upton, Mark Reynolds, weird lines
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Tonight, A.J. Burnett had a weird first inning in a game that’s still going on as I write this. He got the first two outs fairly easily, and then surrendered home runs to Justin Upton, Adam LaRoche, and Mark Reynolds. Before he knew it, he was down 5-0 in the bottom of the first. That can’t happen very often.
I queried Baseball-Reference.com’s event finder for home runs, then narrowed it down to first inning home-runs with two outs this year. Prior to tonight, there had been 82. None of them came in three-homer games – that answers that.
Just for fun, I checked 2009 as well. In total, there were 209 2-out, first-inning home runs in 2009. Only one of those home runs happened in a three-homer game, so it didn’t happen then, either.
Poor AJ.
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I have no idea why the Yankees don’t get rid of AJ Burnet? Every time when he pitches Yankees lose…..I’ve been followinf the Yankees my entire life but now I don’t waste my time seeing Burnet!!!! loser…….