Steve Gann
Sandra 1Halfway To Joe
May 13th 2009 00:56
Baseball is without a doubt a numbers game. What was the first thing that you did with a new baseball card? Turn it over and read the stats of course. Players also keep up with stats to reach personal milestones and to help punch their ticket into the Hall-Of-Fame.
Three-thousand hits or five-hundred homers has generally been the benchmark for hitters: with three-thousand strikeouts or three-hundred wins separating good from great pitchers.
But arguably, along with Ripken's consecutive games played, the greatest number in baseball is the number fifty-six. This of course is the number of games that Joe Dimaggio was able to sneak a ball past an opposing player to safely reach base. This is the one the historians claim will stand the test of time and steroids. The closest anyone has come is the mark of forty-four by Willie Keeler and Pete Rose.
We now have another contestant who is halfway to proving the experts wrong. Nationals third baseman has hit safely in twenty-nine straight games with the chance for thirty coming this week in San Francisco. He may be halfway there, but with each game the pressure and the cameras increase.
Follow me at http://twitter.com/stevegann for live updates from tonight's game
UPDATE: Zimmerman wasted no time in stretching his streak to thirty games with a first inning single off of Giant's pitcher Matt Cain.
Three-thousand hits or five-hundred homers has generally been the benchmark for hitters: with three-thousand strikeouts or three-hundred wins separating good from great pitchers.
But arguably, along with Ripken's consecutive games played, the greatest number in baseball is the number fifty-six. This of course is the number of games that Joe Dimaggio was able to sneak a ball past an opposing player to safely reach base. This is the one the historians claim will stand the test of time and steroids. The closest anyone has come is the mark of forty-four by Willie Keeler and Pete Rose.
We now have another contestant who is halfway to proving the experts wrong. Nationals third baseman has hit safely in twenty-nine straight games with the chance for thirty coming this week in San Francisco. He may be halfway there, but with each game the pressure and the cameras increase.
Follow me at http://twitter.com/stevegann for live updates from tonight's game
UPDATE: Zimmerman wasted no time in stretching his streak to thirty games with a first inning single off of Giant's pitcher Matt Cain.
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