Stat of The Day: "Strike 3"

Most Home Runs in a season while striking out fewer than 10 time?

Tommy Holmes in 1945

Year	Age	Tm	G	AB	H	2B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP
1945	28	BSN	154	636	224	47	28	117	15	70	9	.352	.420
11 Seasons			1320	4992	1507	292	88	581	40	480	122	.302	.366

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He hit 28 HR and only struck out 9 times. He had a great season in 1945 hitting .352. He finished 2nd in 1945 NL MVP voting. He only played for 11 seasons, but he ended up with a lifetime BA of .302.

Rookie Sensation

Record: Most Home Runs in a season by a rookie

Held by: Wally Berger & Frank Robinson

Number of HR: 38

Year set: 1930 & 1956

The only player that was close of tying or breaking the record was Albert Pujols in 2001. Pujols had 37 Home Runs in his rookie season, he was 1 HR away from tying the record.

Its pretty rare to see a rookie hit 25 HR in a season, only 22 players have. 38 just sounds ridiculous for a rookie to do.

Robinson had a great career getting a total of 586 Home Runs and 57 hits shy of 3000 hits.

Stat of the day: K%

Stat: Lowest Career Strikeout Rate(minimum 8,000 AB)

Held by: Joe Sewell

Career Strikeout Rate: 1.6%

Played: 1920-1993

Team: N.Y. Yankees & Cleavland Indians

I bet you thought Ted Williams would've held this record but his K% is 9.2%, a longshot from 1.6%. Pretty amazing Joe Sewell struck out 114 times in his 1,903 or every 16 games. In 1932 he struck a unimaginable 3 times, yeah 3 times and this aint a typo.

Joe had a career BA of .312 2,226 hits and his OBP% was .391 ranking 42nd in the All-Time OBP(min:8,000 AB). I think this record is unbreakable and will stand the test of time.

Stat of the day: 7-23-09

Player: J.R. Richard

Record: Most Strikeouts in a Pitchers debut

Amount: 15 strikeouts

J.R. dominated the MLB in the late 70's with his pitching skills. He had all the stuff a 100 + Mph Fastball & a 90+ nasty slider. He was having great season from 76-79. He had a great 1st half during 1980 season being selected to his first All-Star Game. On July 30th tragedy struck when J.R. suffered a massive Stroke. He tried a comeback but it wasn't successful. Life was hard for JR when he was living homeless for 2 years until becoming a minister.

Stat of the day: Streak with SO>=10 K, as Starter

Player: Pedro Martinez

Team: Boston RedSox

Streak: Most consecutive games with at least 10 strikeouts when being the starter

Games: 10 straight games as a starter with at least 10 or more strikeouts

Dates: 1999-08/19/1999 - 04/09/2000

Pedro was on a hot streak during the end of the 99 season and the beginning of the 2000 season. 11,15,11,15,17,14,12,12,11,12 were the strikeouts of each of the 10 games. Its pretty amazing he had 2 15K games and a 17k game, and 5 shutouts during the streak.