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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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The Baseball Scene in the Core - Sean Green vs My Captain
Sean Green reached base in 11 consecutive plate appearances against my captain, that wasn't the record. As far as we can tell based on the data we have, the record is actually 17 consecutive plate appearances. Pinky Higgins, no relation to producer Dylan Higgins, reached base against Roxy Lawson in 1938 and 1939. That's a fun bit of trivia. Again, beginning on May 3rd, 1938 and ending on August 19th, 1939. Here is the sequence of plate appearances Higgins versus Lawson walk, walk, walk,. single, single,single, single, home run, walk, single, double, single, one, single,walk, single. It was right on right, although
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