The Dord of Darien

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You’re not going to believe this, but…

Ozzie Guillen is a crazy man. You see at the bottom of here? You see how it says the White Sox intentionally walked Ichiro Suzuki? Read that again. Let it sink in.

Intentional walk.

Ichiro.

Fun fact about Ichiro. Last season, Ichiro had 213 hits, which is a lot, and racked up a grand total of 33 XBH. 33. Thirty-three. You know what percent of 213 33 is? Zero. Zero fucking percent. Ichiro is a singles hitter — a great singles hitter, to be sure, but a singles hitter — and that is all. He is such a non-power-threat that this IBB on April 29th was his very first walk of the season. And Crazy Ozzie did it on purpose. He intentionally placed Ichiro on first base to prevent him from… reaching first base.


April 30th, 2009 Posted by | Baseball | one comment

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  1. Was there anybody on base? If say there was a guy on second it makes sense to put him on rather than let him hit, since the guy on second probably scores on a base hit, but stays put on an IBB. Also, sets up a force at any base.

    Comment by Dave | 5 May 2009

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