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Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · Aug 4

Retrosheet is pleased to announce its semi-annual summer 2025 release. Too much great stuff to fit in a skeet. See here for details: www.retrosheet.org/summer2025re...

Enjoy!

Summer 2025 Release

www.retrosheet.org

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Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 1d

Also been to maybe a dozen games where I wasn’t necessarily a fan of either team. They were all great!

Because watching a baseball game at a baseball park is great!

Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 1d

Only visit to Fenway, watched the Red Sox beat the Cubs 19-0. My favorite moment: Cubs gave up and put DH Matt Mervis on the mound.

Woman behind me: “Why is he pitching like that?”

Me: “Well, he’s not a pitcher. He’s our DH.”

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Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 1d

Went to Skydome because the Orioles happened to be in town. Lots of fun!

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Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been to two Brewers home games where I rooted for the other team: vs. the Orioles at County Stadium on my honeymoon; at Miller Park vs. the Cubs for my son’s 12th birthday. Had a great time both times!

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Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently, the discourse tonight is about rooting for the visiting team at a baseball game. I’ve done this a few times and always enjoyed it and enjoyed the folks there with me (mostly rooting for the other team, of course).

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Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 1d

“this would be the [FIRST] World Series”. Nothing worse than finding a typo after hitting “send”!

Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 1d

Andrew Vaughn is bringing Chicago baseball fans together. Something the Northside and Southside can agree on! Boo, Andrew Vaughn!

Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 1d

If the Brewers beat the Dodgers, I believe this would be the World Series to involve two teams younger than me (I was born in 1968, one year before MLB went to divisions).

The ALCS matchup is between the first two expansion teams that I remember starting.

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Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to the Milwaukee Brewers! Go make the NL Central proud!

Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 1d

I was just thinking: “I wonder if he’s related to Alan.” Thanks for answering that!

Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 1d

Cubs. I lived on the North Side of Chicago for 27 years.

Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 1d

These are the gladdest of possible words:
Hoerner to Swanson to Busch
Trio of bear cubs and fleeter than birds:
Hoerner to Swanson to Busch
Ruthlessly pricking their gonfalon bubble,
Making a Brewer hit into a double,
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble,
Hoerner to Swanson to Busch.

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Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to the Mariners and their fans. Fantastic game!

Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 2d

I live in Maine. I like Janet Mills. She’s been a good governor. There is zero chance that I will vote for her.

I’m 57. Political leaders should mostly be younger than me. Not old enough to be my parents.

Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 3d

Orval Overall references always demand a repost.

Related, Swanson to Hoerner to Busch fits perfectly into that famous poem:

Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Brewer hit into a double,
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble,
Swanson to Hoerner to Busch.

Frustrated Fan @frustratedfan.bsky.social · 3d

Daniel Palencia now has 3 postseason wins, tying him with Jon Lester and Orval Overall on the franchise’s all-time leaderboard behind only Jake Arrieta and Mordecai Brown (5 each).

Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 3d

This round of playoffs has worked out very nicely. We get one series winner each of four consecutive nights: Blue Jays, Dodgers, TBD, TBD.

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Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 3d

It’s fairly common, of course, for children to rebel against their parents - hah, Dad, I’ll show you, Mr. Cubs fan: go, White Sox!

But I’m greatly amused that Hal Steinbrenner’s rebellion against his “3 managers per season” father is to never fire a Yankees manager.

Jake (Real) @jakemhs.bsky.social · 4d

Anyway this is entirely academic since Boone's extension doesn't even kick in until next season and Hal would rather eat en entire tin can than pay someone for three years to do nothing. He's got the job as long as he wants it.

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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 4d

Tomorrow is the 77th anniversary of the Steve Gromek/Larry Doby photo from the 1948 World Series. I wrote about it today--its importance in "Our Team" and how a research discovery almost sunk the climax of my book. Enjoy. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Staging of One of Baseball’s Most Famous Images

The Steve Gromek/Larry Doby Photo Revisited

substack.com

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Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 8d

This really highlights how remarkable the Brewers win today was.

Scored first - Cubs
Homers - 3-0, Cubs
% of Brewers runs scored via HR - 0%

Final score: Brewers 9, Cubs 3

I suppose someone has to be the “2” in 7-2!

slangsonsports.bsky.social @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 8d

so far this postseason:

- Teams to score first are 9-6
- Teams to out-homer opponents are 7-2 (23-8 in ‘24 PS)
- 33.3% of runs have been scored via HR (was 41.1% in ’25 RS, 47.0% in '24 PS)

Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 11d

It is. You can have the same thing happen on a walk - basically, in reverse. The pitcher who throws most of the balls is charged with the walk. But the batter who takes ball four gets credit for the walk.

Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 11d

The third strike was thrown by Vesia. But it was a swinging strike by Miguel Andujar.

Vesia and Andujar replaced Emmet Sheehan and Will Benson with the count 1-2.

Benson was charged with the K because the first 2 strikes were against him.

Vesia got credit for the K because he threw strike 3.

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Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 11d

If a pinch hitter comes up with two strikes already on him and strikes out, the K is charged to the batter who got the first two strikes.

But for a pitcher, the pitcher who throws the third strike gets the strikeout.

(Reverse is true for a walk.)

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Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 11d

Fun scoring quirk just happened.

Officially, Alex Vesia just struck out Will Benson even though Vesia never threw a pitch to Benson.

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Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 12d

Sometimes I wish I lived in the alternate universe where he didn’t have a stroke.

Remember Some Guys @remembersomeguys.bsky.social · 12d

J.R. Richard
Pitcher
Debut: 1971 - Retired: 1980
HOU

J.R. Richard at baseball-reference.com

Career stats of J.R. Richard

baseball-reference.com

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Tom Thress @retrosheettom.bsky.social · 13d

There were documented interracial games there starting in at least 1930. But, yeah, the legendary Paige-Dean 12-inning battle; nope, sad to say, I’m almost positive that one didn’t happen.

www.retrosheet.org/NegroLeagues...

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