Sports: A Game Of Inches

We are four humble men who love sports, but hate sports commentary. Peter Gammons is our hero and John Madden is our enemy. If you were to ask us our purpose, our answer would be simple: "We are forever locked in Mortal Kombat for the souls of sports fans everywhere. Statistics are our science and 'the immeasurable character of men' is the obsolete religion of blind faith. Our job is to prove that God doesn't exist and that athletes are merely cold, metal machines with no hearts or souls."

Minor League Hitting Streak

Jamie McOwen has a 44 game hitting streak for class-A High Desert Mavericks. This is the longest hitting streak in the minor leagues in 55 years. It is still 12 games from Joe DiMaggio’s 56 game hitting streak, and obviously not as good because it is against minor leaguers and not major league pitching, but still impressive to have a streak for that long. Let’s see if he can extend it to 56 games. Jamie McOwen is a minor leaguer who was selected by the Seattle Mariners in the sixth round in 2007. Now the real question is will Joe DiMaggio’s record ever be broken?

2 comments:

saBEERmetrics said...: Thats pretty impressive; July 10, 2009 at 8:54 AM
Adam Kaplan said...: What's even more impressive is if this dude can get to the big leagues

and Joe DiMiggio's record will NEVER be broken; July 11, 2009 at 2:36 PM