What's the Flukiest Accomplishment in Baseball History?

[Ken]

On May 13th, battling severe stomach ulcer pain, Necciai threw a no hitter, striking out 27 batters

9 innings?

[Sour Masher]

Yes, a 9 inning game, though a passed ball led to an extra base runner and a 4k 9th, so technically, not every single out was a K.

[rhd]

9 innings?

Yes, 9 innings. But not all of the outs were Ks, tho, as there was a batter safe on a dropped 3rd strike. I think the other out was a ground out. Necciai's K/9 that year was an unbelievable 22.8!

[Ken]

Yes, a 9 inning game, though a passed ball led to an extra base runner and a 4k 9th, so technically, not every single out was a K.

Neat info, thanks for bringing this one up!

[Judge Jude]

Khris Davis hitting exactly .247 in 4 straight years.

Eddie Murray OPS+
1981 - 156
1982 - 156
1983 - 156
1984 - 157 (led AL)

then a "collapse" to 149 in 1985

Adam Dunn HR
2005 - 40
2006 - 40
2007 - 40
2008 - 40
then "only" 38 in 2009 and again in 2010

Mookie Wilson AVG
1983 - .276
1984 - .276
1985 - .276
career AVG of .276 - until his final, poor year dropped it to .274

Lloyd Moseby's HR totals starting with his first MLB season: 9-9-9-18-18-18

Don Buford scored 99 runs three straight years - but never reached 100

[Pauly]

How about Yermin Mercedes coming in to pitch today

[Sour Masher]

How about Yermin Mercedes coming in to pitch today

Ohtani who?!

[Ken]

Ohtani who?!

I think Ohtani is a better pitcher than Yermin.

[hacko]

"Even if they're still playing baseball in the next geological epoch, it will never happen again."

Reggie Jackson, 1977 World Series-deciding Game 6. not a fluke, but let me know if someone ever beats it:

three pitches
three pitchers
three homers

My brother love Reggie and wanted to name his 2 nd kid after him. While watching this game he tried to talk his pregnant wife into agreeing to the name. She didn’t want to but when he came up after hitting 2 already she said if he hits another then yes. She was pretty confident that wasn’t going to happen. No sooner had she uttered those words then bam - no 3 on its way.

[Ken]

My brother love Reggie

Related to McLovin?

[Sour Masher]

I think Ohtani is a better pitcher than Yermin.

Hmm, the sample size is too small for Yermin for us to know that .

[Ken]

Hmm, the sample size is too small for Yermin for us to know that .

I dunno, check reddit for the spin rate

[Judge Jude]

My brother loves Reggie and wanted to name his 2nd kid after him. While watching this game he tried to talk his pregnant wife into agreeing to the name. She didn’t want to but when he came up after hitting 2 already she said if he hits another then yes. She was pretty confident that wasn’t going to happen. No sooner had she uttered those words then bam - no 3 on its way.

this reads like she got REALLY excited about that third homer - what did they name the third kid nine months later?

[revo]

I'm pleasantly surprised we're on page 2 and no one's mentioned Brady Anderson's 50 HR season yet, which is probably the flukiest 50 HR season ever (Jose Bautista's 54 HR season probably was at the time, but obviously he continued to hit with prodigious power).

I wonder how it felt being the guy who drafted Anderson in 1996, and then how it felt being the guy who drafted Anderson in 1997 (he still had a good season, but he was back to his prior power levels, and hit just 18 HRs).

[revo]

Esteban Loaiza's 2003 is one of the flukiest great seasons by a pitcher in recent memory. I don't know what happened that season (maybe he snorted a ton of coke?), but not only was he mediocre literally the rest of his long career, but that season was sandwiched in between two largely typical seasons for him:

2002: 9-10, 5.71 ERA, 1.52 WHIP, 5.2 K/9
2003: 21-9, 2.90 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, 8.2 K/9
2004: 10-7, 5.70 ERA, 1.57 WHIP, 5.8 K/9

It was as if he shoehorned every good game of his career into that 2003 season.