batting around with some fun facts

i am always happy to participate in a good ol' blog bat around! in diamond jesters original post yesterday, matt wrote about a series of fun statistical facts that were not intuitive based on our primary conception of certain players, even bringing it back to madison bumgarner to match the original version of the concept. i decided pretty quickly after reading matt's post to give it a try! 

i will start with mookie betts

who has more regular season 3 home run games (6) than reggie jackson (2)

who has as many championship series home runs (6) as kiké hernandez (6)

who has finished more regular season games as a pitcher (6) than walker buehler (5)

who has more career home runs (1) than don sutton (0)

who hit fewer batters with a pitch (82) than madison bumgarner (89)

for reference, don sutton had 1,559 plate appearances to walker buehler's 195, and sutton faced 21,631 batters while bumgarner only pitched to 9,098 batters.

this was pretty fun. the only stat i was aware of before i started was that betts had more 3 homer games than mr. october - the other facts i discovered along the way. baseball reference truly is the greatest website.

thanks for the inspiration matt!