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Hello, and welcome to Jimmy's Three Things. My name is Jimmy. There's three topics in the world of Major League Baseball. I want to discuss. One, Devers owns call. The numbers are crazier than you are imagining. Two Jose Miranda Tiz and MLB record with twelve straight hits. Let's look at those and see the old guys who did it before him. And Luis Castillo has a new grip for his slider and I want to learn just a little bit about that. As always, Jimmy's Three Things is a production of Dan Patrick Production's John Boy Media and Workhouse Media. A little sip of the coffee and then we're gonna starter up. Okay, so welcome. First topic. Thank you. If you enjoy these, please subscribe to the channel, leave a comment, let me know if there's any ideas you want in the future. But first topic, Raphael Devers owns Garrett Cole. It is insane. I don't know if I've seen anything like it ever when I actually dove into the numbers. So first I'll show you if we go to Baseball Reference and we go to Garrett Call, and then more or versus batter okay, and then you type in devors and this is gonna give you every at bat they've had against each other in their careers, and the numbers right now, the total number at the bottom. In forty three played appearances, Devers has a three thirty three batting average three ninety five on base percentage. Those are good, but you see those a lot when players dominate a certain pitcher. Nine seventy four slugging, nine seventy four slugging in forty three played appearances, which gives you a one dot three seven zero ops. That's crazy, right, Well, Jake pointed out to me or someone on Twitter and then saw it that Devers in twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, and twenty twenty was oh for he was oh four eight against Garrett Cole and then everything changed. I don't know what changed. Some rules got changed for pitchers. Maybe that affects it, maybe that doesn't. So let's just take modern numbers since twenty twenty one. It's un it's unbelievable. I mean, I truly, I don't even really understand it at all. And let's take playoffs into account, because they've had some matchups in the playoffs. So since twenty twenty one, Devers versus Cole has a four nineteen batting average, a five fourteen on base percentage, a one dot two two six slugging, and a one dot one three three X or well that would be x slugging one dot one through three expected slugging. So the ops there, you got to combine them because they don't give it to go do math one dot seven eight no no no one dot seven three zero one dot seven three zero ops since twenty twenty one, and that's insane. Since twenty twenty one, Devers has thirty one at bats against Cole, thirteen hits, eight homers, unbelievable, well in the game over the weekend. What Boone chose to do on July sixth was uh, he chose to leave coll In to face Devers for a third time. So in the first at bat he got Devers to strike out there was no one on one two three, struck him out and call second at bat against Devers, there was a runner in scoring position on second. First base was open and there were two outs already, so you would think, why don't you just walk him, you have the open base. Instead, they pitch to him and on a one to zero pitch, he singles and they score a run. That's the second at beat. Then deverstol. Then they send Cole out to face Devers a third time with the left he warmed up and Devers is a lefty and he gets clipped for a home run. Devers hits a home run off of Garrett Cole, So I wanted to go see, okay? Well? Since twenty twenty one, what has Devers done against Cole in his third played appearance against him? And guess what in his third played appearance against Garrett Call? Since twenty twenty one, Devers has a six sixty seven batting average, a seven twenty seven on base, a two dot three three slugging, which gives him a three dot zero six zero OPS. When Devers faces Call for the third time, since the sticky stuff man or since Coal's age, whatever you want to place it on, it's uh, it's like an automatic homer man. He's got He's got nine at bats, He's got six hits, five home runs. What the two walks, five home runs one single? Unbelievable? With runners on base, he has a two dot one nine six OPS, a one dot sixty six slugging with runners in scoring position A one dot seven slugging. These numbers don't make sense at all. At Fenway, he crushes them. At Fenway he is six for thirteen with five homers. Oh no. And if there's a situation where Cole's facing him for the third time in the game and there's runners on base, that's happened five times, he's three for four with three homers in a walk. What I mean, gotta I tweeted it out that remember the Titans, now's not the time to be proud. Boonie. Call this dude gets you third time through. This is Dever's spray chart versus call when in the stretch since twenty twenty one. And for those that are listening and not watching on YouTube, you're just listening on the podcast app. Thank you appreciate it. The spray chart shows one, two, three, four, five, six homers, one single and two ground outs to the right side. Let's take a look at these thirteen hits real quick. We'll go in order. First one this pitch out of the zone and open them all up one tab at a time, and then we'll just go through them really quick and see what is he hitting in the zone. Is it the fastball always. This one is in Fenway, Boston's up six, nothing, so yeah, just pitch to him. It's a low change up out of the zone and he just dunks it in in front of judge and center. Then the next time he's in Fenway, bottom one two on first base, open with one out, O two pitch and he collabbers it. Oh my goodness, just a well. I mean it was one hundred miles per hour dead red. Look at this center dead center fastball. So as a three run homer. Okay, Well, the next one at Fenway, bottom fifth, runner on third, another fastball, center cut ninety nine miles per hour. So you're not gonna out miles per hour Devers, didn't we learn that with Chapman. He's got a home run on the fastest pitch ball or something like that his next at bat. So this is just a lot of homers in a row. Here another change up that he just pulls and keeps it within the poll. My goodness, another home run, high fastball this time. I don't know what the count is. The bugs not on the screen. Let's go to the away broadcast. Second pitch of the at bat, one high fastball, runner on base gone fastball and change up so far two on bottom five. Another change up low takes that three run shot turn a six to two game into a six to five game. I think I was at that game. Here's another home run, two outs slider. Okay, so that's our first slider homer below the zone. Here's another homer. This is a change up. Garrett Cole's got a haircut. Another low change up that gets out? What that didn't look like it was gonna get out? Devers is so strong? How does that get out? Damn? Okay? Just a ground rule double? Here another change up low? Yep. I mean you're not gonna throw like a high change up unless you're Lucas Gilito and twenty whoa. That was when the Yankees had two infielders playing the outfield. Oh boy, oh boy, two to oh you're just gonna throw that is so lucky that that's not a homer. That's a two to oh dead red fastball. Here's a single. This is on a cutter new pitch. Oh that's a single. Huh. That's a single. Huh? How the how is that a single? Scorekeeping is terrible? Next pitch, four seam fastball ninety six miles per hour boom. Boston takes the lead in the fifth inning. No way, man, this is unbelievable. And this is over the weekend. So that was a cutter inside nice pitch jams him a little bit, but he's too good for that. And then the homer at the end. Oh boy, so it's awful. He's never hit the curveball out. Let's see pitch type. Let's just see pitch type, breaking ball, and I want to see, like, does he just not swing at Cole's breaking ball or is he swinging and missing at it? Because he's not throwing a lot of breaking balls. They go into the bat, sometimes into it backfoot slider. Maybe does he throw these pitches and and Devers just spits on him or is that not thought to be the best approach. He's thrown thirty eight breaking balls U and Devers has a one to sixty seven badding average against those, but a four forty four on base and at six sixty seven slugging So how many whiffs? Six whiffs out of thirty eight pitches. So yeah, it looks like he just doesn't really He's like, ah, I ain't gonna swing at that. No, need. I'll just wait for that that fastball or that change up, which I'll just treat like a slower fastball, and you're good. So okay, all the breaking stuff has been low, not many in the zone. A couple up top. Let's see where the hit into play. So there's two we saw those. These sliders that he hit into play, those are the only hit in the plays we have here. Yeah, so this one is a three to two slider. That's a knuckle curve hit that into play for a ground out. And then this one is a slider and that's the homer we saw, right, So the knuckle curve was out. So okay, what's he done against the curve? Called strike ball? He's put the curve into play once ball, swinging strike into play, black ball called strike, foul called strike? So why don't why doesn't he throw them more breaking stuff? So right handed breaking stuff, some of his best numbers come from that. Yeah. So last in twenty twenty three, his ex slug versus right handed breaking stuff was six seventy seven, and this year it's his highest. Oh no, it's versus off speed. It was pretty good. So he he does crush breaking pitches throughout his career from Righty's which usually makes sense. But if I'm looking at I mean Cole, like he crushes your fast on your change up. Let's let's try more knuckle curves. I mean, what's the knuckle curve been doing? Looks like the knuckle curvesben balling out verst Evers. That's fine to this, I'm gonna go just knuckle curve. How many has he thrown since twenty twenty one? Look, Cole just doesn't throw it that much anymore. And if you throw that pitch a lot in the at bad, I think eventually he's gonna see it. So it's like, is col trying to get to the knuckle curve by throwing fastballs and then he's just hitting him? But some some of those fastballs were just dead red fastballs that Cole is just thinking he's gonna outvelo him and just beat him, beat him to the spot. And you're not gonna do that against Evers. He's put the knuckle curve in play one time, He's thrown it twenty seven times. He's put it in play one time, but he's only gotten four whiffs on it. I wonder how many called strikes we have Okay, so one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine balls four or ten called strikes, three foul balls, four swinging strikes. Fuck man, I mean I think, I just I think I just throw this a lot. And if you walk them on five curveballs, whatever, and if he Homer's on the curveball, okay, well now we've learned. But at least let's test this. Holy shit, he hasn't wait, so he hasn't thrown him a curveball. He threw him one this year and in that bat he went on to Homer in so the last at bat of the last game, and got the called strike high outside. I don't know, I don't know, guys. I feel like I feel like we should just spam the knuckle curve to Devers until he does something with it. He's just taking that one. He's not looking for it there at all. Are all the called strikes, like early in the count called strike one oh one, oh three to one. So that's uh, he's looking fastball one oh oh one. He did it. That's interesting. First pitch, get me over curve three to two. I mean, yeah, he's clearly not sitting curve. Here's one. Just that was the first pitch of that bat got a strike on him. Here's another that's a two to one pitch. That's a really nice pitch. He wrapped her on the outside. Okay, here's a full count curve and get that's where he got him in the pitch from you, the last series, high and away curve. I don't know if you aim there, but that's what he got him. Okay, here's the first pitch of that bat, calling that a curve. Looks more slidery, but whatever. And then here's an O one. Okay, so he's not looking. So what does his swing look like in the four swings when he swings at this pitch or five because he put one in play? One two strike? Yeah that works. Oh wait, there's a little smile there from Cole at the end. So it's low in a way and it really darts down. Devers throws his helmet and Cole looks very pleased with himself. Okay, another this is O one chases that one low awkward swing. Wow, huge swing over that one. That why is he swinging at that two to two? He thinks it's gonna be uh a change up and come like back into the bat and it just goes down, all right, Like, let's if this happens again where we face Devers, Let's just throw some throw some curve. Maybe I'll tell Boone that today. I'm talking to him right after I finished recording this, just throw just throw curves, all right, I gotta go. That was way too long I spent on that. The next topic. Okay, twins Jose Miranda tize MLB record with twelfth straight hit twelve hits in a row. Jose Miranda. It was July third to July eighth. July third starts off and he gets a hit in his last at bat and that's when it started. But his batting average in that span went from two ninety seven to three thirty three three thirty two. I just was looking directly at the number and read it wrong. Two ninety seven to three thirty two, So a thirty five point spike in his batting average. Crazy. He goes from an eight twenty two OPS to a nine to ozho eight ops in this stretch where he got twelve straight hits, and he has a twelve game hitting streak, so he got twelve hits in a row. In the middle of this, He's got a twelve game hitting streak where he's in these twelve games, he's got five fifty eight batting average, five seventy one on base, seven ninety one slugging. Here's a list of all of his hits with the expected batting average, which I wanted to see, and just some simple data. So in date order, it went single, double, single, single, double, double, single, double, single, homer, single, single, single, and the expecting batting average. There's only a couple here, like this is two oh nine, so that was not really expected to be a hit. This is one seventy seven, So we'll take a look at those and see if they're bluepy. The pitch type that he got hits off of sinker, four seam sinkers. That's three fastballs, change up, split finger, two breaking or off speed pitches, slider, breaking pitch, four seam, four seam fastball, fastball, off speed, off speed, change up, change up, fastball, knuckle curve break. So pretty pretty nice, pretty nice balance there. Here's a couple of his swings sinker up drives. That one I look like a change up. He drove that pretty pretty good. Oh okay, so that's a little swinging bunt. We'll go watch that one. That one that's off my e So that's nice left. He comes up right back up the middle. Nice hit there in the rain. He's a rain hitter. It's a nice line drive. Ball's going in. S up, Gary miss you dubin as a homer. Lowing in fastball, well gets that. Oh maybe that's the other one where this one. Those look like it could have been an out. That one bloops in there, and then curveball. Oh, pitcher didn't like that. A little slider. Oh it was that pitch from Flexen. Those might be outs. I don't know if the White Sox are still there. Let's see if this loaded all right, So this is the two to zero nine batting average, and then we got the one seventy seven. So these kept the streak alive. This one's off Kenta, little sinker, swinging bunt, Geo the happy fellow, No play, no play playing you back, you're on a heater. Now we got oh, just beat the shift here. Now that's baseball. Lowing away fastball goes with the pitch. I hate when the pitch and the defense aren't in unison, you know, especially watching a lot of cricket now where that's like the whole game, Like, if you're pitching them out side with a fastball, then why are you shifting him to pull? He's not gonna pull that pitch. Uh. He just always kind of weirded me out. Let's take a look at some of these other ones, or no, you know what I wanted to do. I wanted to go look at the previous names to do it because I love old baseball players. So, according to Bobby Nightingale Junior, the record, he tied with Walt Dropo. What a name. Okay, we'll pull up his baseball reference. Walt Dropo. Pinky Higgins. I've heard that name before and I love it. Obviously. How many pinkies do you think have been in Major League Baseball? A lot? Pinky Higgins, Pinky Whitney, Pinky Hargrave, Pinky Woods, Pinky Ward, Pinky Jorgisen, Pinky Swander. Pinky Higgins went on to be a manager as well, and Johnny Kling, Oh, oh, Johnny Kling. Did Kling go on to be a manager too? Major league? Yeah? Wow? Okay, is Miranda gonna go on to be a manager? Did Walt Dropo become a manager? Nope? All right, Walt Dropo nicknamed Moose from Moosup, Connecticut That's Cool. Buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Musap, Connecticut. Three point three war. In his career, he won the Rookie of the Year and he was a one time All Star. Shame on me for not knowing Walt Dropo. No, I don't care. People will say shame on me, but it's not a bother to me that I don't know his name. A couple of bolts led the league in RBIs when he was a rookie three twenty seven. Does this say the year he did it? In that tweet nineteen fifty two, nineteen fifty two. I don't know if I'm gonna be able to find this, because you're gonna have to find this. Whoa this stretch, look at this stretch five, it's got to be this stretch. July third, July fourteenth, July fifteenth was a double header day, and then July sixteenth, So Walt Dropo ooh he reached on error on E five, So no, that's not the start of it. Could start here July fourteenth, Walt Dropo July fourteenth and the first and he singled but then he got picked off. But then he was safe on an error. Huh okay, singled and then Walt Dropo picked off first base safe on e two runner scores that was on third. The runner scores that was on second, and Dropo goes to third base, so the catcher tried to pick him off and threw the ball way down the line to right field and everyone scored. Okay. Then Dropo got a single. Nice, So that's two in a row. And then another single off of Jim McDonald. That's three in a row. And then another single that's four in a row. And then another single. That's five in a row. He had five hits in this game. What a way to start the streak. He went five for five with two RBIs and two plate appearances. That was July fourteenth against the Yankees. The next game, July fifteenth, was the first game of a double header, and he goes four for four, all single. Still, come on, Waltz, where you at uh single in the in his first at bat, single, in his second at bat, single, in his third at bat, single to pitcher. I'm gonna say that was a botched play of sorts or like a you know, a bunt that the pitcher fielded pretty well, okay, so we're at nine hits in a row, and then the double header later that day he goes four for four. So Walt Dropo went eight for eight on this day. What a guy? What did? What did? What? A little day? Five for five and then eight for eight. So Dick Littlefield pitched in this game. Just a great name to open that guy up, Dick Littlefield. Uh single in his first step bet single, in his second at bet single, in his third at bat, another single to the pitcher. Did he just bunt at the end of games to go four for four just to get keep going? He went five for and then four for four. Oh, that was four for five. So in that second game of the doubleheader he got out somewhere to botch it because he had nine This would be ten, eleven, twelve, and then this says thirteen. This says that he got thirteen rows a single to pitcher. So I think the records are wrong. I think I just corrected history. Yeah, okay, hold up, now, I am an official scorekeeper of Walt Dropo's's let's rewind. In this game he went one for four. His last at bat he reached an error, so that game does not count. It starts on July fourteenth, okay, nineteen fifty two, and DROPO in this game goes five for five, so that's five in a row. Then the next day, July fifteenth, Dropo goes four for four, so that's nine hits in a row. Then the next game, Dropo goes four for five. But they don't have him at getting an out anywhere. Unless I read all this wrong, he goes four for five, so where's the out? Alarms going off in the building. He opened up with a triple. Oh maybe I was on the wrong page. I was on the wrong I was on the I never clicked to the next game. So he opens up with a triple. That's ten. Then then he gets another single, so that's eleven. Then it says next at bet hey, it's a double. So he started going for pop, got greedy, and then foul files out to the catcher. I did not change his stree. Let's go check out Richard Bernard Littlefield Dick Little for short, Dick Little one point nine war nice never led the league in a single category, no bold anywhere, So move on to him. I think I'm going wait. I think the third thing got cut from this video because I Got stuck. Pinky Higgins nineteen thirty eight. Everyone remembers Pinky Hitting Higgins. Michael frank Michael Franklin Higgins, three times All Star from Red Oak, Texas, nineteen thirty eight. Game log, Pinky Higgins, Where you at? Where you at? Kid? Pinky? On June nineteenth, he went three for three on June twenty first, he went four for four on June twenty four. So another so he did go. He did go eight for eight. The other guy didn't. I was wrong about that. Pinky did go eight for eight. Started on June nineteenth. His first at bat, he doubled, but I think he gets out double, single, single, intentional walk. Scared of him, sore you go. So that's three for three. And then the next game Pinky Higgins and the Socks playing the Tigers, he goes four for four. Uh walked in the first at bat, double single, single, single? Good job? Who was the third guy? Johnny Kling went on to be a manager, brother of Bill Kling. Who's better Johnny Kling? Twenty nine point one? War? Hell yeah Johnny Kling? No? Uh yeah, Johnny Kling? Bill Kling negative zero point seven war? Uh oh? Who his nickname was Noisy. Come on, give me a good reason. Let's read his bio real quick. Uh, Let's read his bio from the Saber people and type in Noisy. Okay. He kept up a steady string of chatter, earning him the nickname Noisy. Evers praise cling visibility to work with umpires on balls and strike, yet Cling avoided antagonizing the men in Blue, even warning them if an unusual player pitch was coming. Good job. Johnny Evers claimed King could tell pitchers what their best stuff was during warmups. He kept up a seti string of chatter. So where'd he go? So that's a nickname that should come back. Noisy, kind of like mouthed from Loonies. That's our second thing, you know what. I'm gonna skip the third thing, which was Castillo's new grip for a slider. I'll dive into that later because I definitely went too long here, but we do have some fun facts to round out the episode. The Astros extended their team record fourth of July winning streak to seven, So don't play the Astros on America's Birthday you will lose. The Red Sox improved to fourteen and one on Sundays very jealous of that. That means you're winning the final game of the series. It means you're getting on the bus leaving a series happy. I think winning on the last day of the series is important because you say goodbye to the team and you're happy and they're not. Even if you lose, you can get a little bit of just good momentum there. Ken Lee Jansen recorded his four hundred and thirty eighth career saves for passing Francisco Rodriguez for sole possession of fifth all right Guardian zero pinch hit homers last year, four pinch hit homers this year. Nice not bad. James McCann hit a home run off Kyle McCann. Crime Otani became the first player of the season with twenty plus home runs and twenty plus stolen bases on Sunday. Nice Padres have not six walk off victories this season, including MLB best four via the home run, which is the best, you know, celebration, So good. Padres got good vibes. Two thousand nine Yankees had vibes like that. It was awesome. Tyler phillips seven strikeouts are the most by a Phillies pitcher in a relief in a relief outing in his MLB debut and twenty three year old record held by Billy No Bill dougleby Bill Dougleby Dallas Kykele unique pitching line. Wow, Dallas Kike Cole still doing it. That's just a Dallas kyke line. That's what they should call that. Uh. It's four and a half, four and one third innings, three hits, zero runs, five walks, zero strikeouts. Justin Steele became the first Cubs left you to have a nine inning complete game with no more than ninety five pitches since Jamie Moyer on June third, nineteen eighty eight. And there you go. That was Jimmy's three things, two things plus some fun facts because I got lost in the weeds as I tend to do. Thank you for tuning in if you've got ideas for next time All Star episode. And then I'm a pre recording episode because I'm going on vacation after the All Star Game. Let me know, see yea