By "W"
Tue, Aug 16, 2022 11:12 a.m.
mlb: looks like Rizzo let himself get hit by pitch
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mlb/article-11116335/Yankees-star-Anthony-Rizzo-incredible-dugout-meltdown-screwed-Rays-defeat.html
As a commentator noted, if you watch the slo-mo video, you can see that Rizzo moved into the pitch. So the umpire was right this time.
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Remember Ron Hunt?He was the Babe Ruth of being HBP.Over 50 times,I believe in one year.He couldn't hit that well,so to contribute to his on base percentage,he took a welt once every three games to help the team.White guy,of course.
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(wikipedia)On September 29, 1971, against the Chicago Cubs at Jarry Park, Hunt was hit by a Milt Pappas pitch to give him 50 on the season, obliterating the post-1900 record of 31 by Steve Evans. Pappas argued to home plate umpire Ken Burkhart that the pitch was directly over the plate, that Hunt got hit by the ball without even trying to get out of the way. Earlier in the year, Pappas had also contributed #27 in the Hunt collection, prompting Cub manager Leo Durocher to cry foul after home plate umpire Augie Donatelli awarded Hunt first base on that pitch. Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson had a similar complaint after Hunt was hit by a Jim McGlothlin pitch on August 7 of that year; the HBP was Hunt's 32nd of the season, which broke the National League record set by Steve Evans of the 1910 St. Louis Cardinals.
On April 29, 1969, Hunt tied a Major League record with three HBPs in a game against the Cincinnati Reds. At the time, he was only the fifth player to be hit by a pitch three times in one game. The feat has since been done 17 times as of the end of the 2013 season.
Upon his retirement, his 243 HBPs were a post-dead-ball era career record. Hughie Jennings holds the all-time record with 287. Don Baylor would break the live-ball record in 1987 and retire with 267 HBPs. Craig Biggio would break Baylor’s record in 2005 and retire at the end of the 2007 season with 285 HBPs.[6]
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