Saturday, June 15, 2013

The Doubles King

Orioles third baseman Manny Machado doubled twice off of Red Sox starter Ryan Dempster tonight, giving him 30 on the season. ESPN Stats & Info tweeted this interesting piece of trivia after Machado?s second double of the night in the Orioles? 2-0 victory:

Any time you can be mentioned in the same breath as Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio, you?re doing a good job.

The single-season record for doubles is 67 by Earl Webb in 1931. Machado needs just 37 doubles over his team?s final 94 games to tie the record, a rate of one double every 2.5 games. If he continues at his current rate of doubles, 1 per 2.27 games, he would wind up at 71 doubles.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/06/14/manny-machados-30th-double-puts-him-with-ted-williams-joe-dimaggio/related/

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