Chris Coghlan tears up his knee throwing a pie
Posted by Andy on July 27, 2010
No kidding. ESPN.com has the story.
So, let's see. Kendry Morales broke his leg landing on home plate. Now Chris Coghlan was injured throwing a pie. What else?
Posted by Andy on July 27, 2010
No kidding. ESPN.com has the story.
So, let's see. Kendry Morales broke his leg landing on home plate. Now Chris Coghlan was injured throwing a pie. What else?
July 27th, 2010 at 3:04 pm
What's next? A broken tooth from an overzealous go at the postgame buffet?
July 27th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
Not related:
Can anyone explain to me why Orel Hershiser's consecutive scoreless inning streak is 59 and not 60? He did pitch in 59 complete innings scoreless, but he got the third out to start the streak, and then the first run he gave up was with 2 outs? (granted, that was at the start of the next season, so I can understand why you might set it up as a one season record or something)
July 27th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
My turn.
Middle-relief guy gets his feet tangled up pitching from the stretch with no runners on, avoids the balk but messes up his wrist trying to keep from falling.
July 27th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Russel Branyan was recently attached by a table.
http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/07/15/russell-branyans-toe-attacked-by-hotel-room-table/?ncid=txtlnkusspor00000002&xid=si_mlb
July 27th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
Thomas, I don't think you can count partial innings in a scoreless streak because teams get three outs to play with in attempt to score. Getting an out in an inning in which runs score shouldn't be considered part of a scoreless streak. It looks like MLB changed this at some point, because Drysdale's record used to be considered 58.2 IP, and is now considered 58. If a reliever entered partway through an inning, I think you could credit him with 1/3 or 2/3 scoreless IP, but not someone who starts the inning.
If you include the postseason, Hershiser got to 67 consecutive!!!
July 27th, 2010 at 6:07 pm
This never happened when Soupy Sales was still alive.
July 27th, 2010 at 6:34 pm
I was unaware Drysdale's count had been changed. Thanks JT!
July 27th, 2010 at 7:22 pm
OT, but can i suggest Larry Walker for a future HOF poll, if he hasn't been the subject of one already?
i remember some ESPN announcer flatly stating toward the end of his career that his numbers for the hall "just aren't there", because he had been hurt so much. i'm not sure i agree.
also, Todd Helton, though i highly doubt he'll get in (via the writers anyway.)
July 27th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
M S Burton posted a very long list of weird injuries to the Usenet newsgroup rec.sport.baseball on 12 June 2003, Subject header: Injury of the week. It starts with
"Carleton Loewer dislocated his left ankle and broke two leg bones after falling 15 feet when he stepped back off a deer stand." You should be able to find it by searching Google Groups. Steve Yaver posted a long list, taken from the Baltimore Sun, to the statlg-l discussion list on 30 January 2004, Subject header: A quick Google Search for.... It includes "Larry Anderson: Strained a rib cage muscle getting out of a Jacuzzi
"Bret Barberie: Rubbed chili juice into his eye
"Wade Boggs: Injured ribs pulling off Cowboy Boots"
and many more. statlg-l posts are archived online.
July 27th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
I seem to recall one about John Smoltz burning himself while ironing a shirt - that he was wearing.
July 27th, 2010 at 11:58 pm
@2 Johnny answered your question, but in case you're interested in a little more info this issue was actually discussed on the blog almost 3 years ago: http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/452
(Check out comment #1 there - the avatar makes no sense 🙂 )
July 28th, 2010 at 8:11 am
Larry Walker would be an interesting poll for HOF.
July 28th, 2010 at 8:33 am
Don't forget Matt Latos...on the DL for hurting his arm while sneezing.
July 28th, 2010 at 11:51 am
Not baseball related, but the greatest injury of all-time remains Gus Frerotte getting a concussion when he head-butted a wall in celebration of a TD pass.
July 28th, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Thanks Raphy!!!
July 28th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
There was a Cubs minor leaguer a few years back who tripped over his Playstation II controller cord while getting up in the middle of the night to take a leak. Obviously not celebrating but interesting nonetheless.
July 28th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
Not professional baseball but UCLA's Tyler Rahmatulla broke his wrist in a dogpile after UCLA made it to the CWS and couldn't play in Omaha
July 28th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
I'd rather see a pie on a dude's face than shaving cream.
July 28th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
The shaving cream to the face is neither original or funny. Maybe this will put an end to that ignorant practice.
July 28th, 2010 at 8:12 pm
I predict Erik Bedard getting a paper cut and missing another year. Check out http://www.thefantasybaseballguru.com leave comments ask qs and tell me what you think.
July 29th, 2010 at 10:58 am
I believe it was Glenallen Hill who injured himself while thrashing around in bed while having a nightmare about spiders.
July 29th, 2010 at 11:01 am
I think Hill claimed to have put his hand through a piece of glass while sleepwalking, having a nightmare about spiders.
July 31st, 2010 at 7:45 am
I remember a couple of recent incidents (coincidentally both involving the Cubs), although I can't remember exactly when they were.
-Sammy Sosa threw out his back during a sneezing fit.
-Carlos Zambrano had some wrist or hand injury (carpel tunnel?) from having too many AIM conversations with his family back home.
Also, didn't somebody get injured playing Guitar Hero recently?