Wednesday, April 7, 2004
Notes After Two Giants Games (2-0)
Barry Bonds sucks. His average plummeted from 1.000 to .571 in just one day.
• Neifi Perez went four-for-four? Can't tell if this is a good thing or a bad thing. Don't want to give Felipe any ideas.
• While the Giants' David Aardsma is now the #1 player listed alphabetically in Major League Baseball history, Hank Aaron will still be listed first, because the Baseball Encyclopedia lists batters and pitchers in different sections. Aardsma will take the #1 spot in the pitchers list from Don Aase. And never fear, Dutch Zwilling fans: Your fave is still dead last. And just dead (as of March 27, 1978). And with the failure of Joe Xavier to make the majors back in the 1980s, there is still nobody with a last name starting with X in the all-time registry.
• Starting pitcher Victor Zambrano of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays already has two victories. When was the last time a starter had two victories in his team's first three games? Sounds more like a Grover-Cleveland-Alexander-era stat.
• Kaz Matsui hit a home run on the first major league pitch he saw. Twenty players have done this in major league history, and strangely, six were pitchers. It's also happened once a year for the last five seasons.
• I'm picking Padraig Harrington to win the Masters. (Yes, this note has nothing to do with the Giants or baseball. But technically it does come after the first two Giants games.)
