It’s not often I get content for this blog from my softball cronies.  But this article came across the kucklehead telegraph today and is full of great baseball trivia. My only question now is which one of these guys reads the Wall Street Journal.  Here are some highlights.

• Marlins Jorge Cantu stared the season with at least one hit and one RBI in each of the Marlins first 9 games.- Never done before.
• A-Rod: 13 seasons; 30 HRs and 100 RBIs in each one;  A-first

There have been 173,383 MLB games since 1903

• No player has ever hit 3 grand slams in one game
• No player has ever hit for the cycle in two consecutive games
• A game has never had two players hitting for the cycle
• In 49 years, the Mets have never had a no-hitter (Seaver for the Reds, Cone for the Yanks, Ryan for several, Gooden for the Yanks).  In 18 years, the Marlins have 4
• 40 pitchers have throw the immaculate late inning (9 strikes to 3 consecutive batters).  But No pitcher has done it two innings in a row.
• 26 batters have come to bat 3 times in 1 inning.  But none of them made all 3 outs in the inning.
• Twice, not once, a game has ended with an unassisted triple play – Last year and 1927.