You Don't See This Every Day.

Ichiro gets tossed for the first time ever.

Pujols' Grand Slams this Year

Grand Slam Records Single Season Records
Record	Lg	Name(s)	Team(s)	Data
Most In A Season	AL	Travis Hafner	Cleveland	6	2006
		Don Mattingly	New York		1987
	NL	Ernie Banks	Chicago	5	1955
		Albert Pujols	St. Louis		2009

Table from www.baseball-almanac.com


04/11/09: HR #2, vs. Houston
04/25/09: HR #7, vs. Cubs
06/21/09: HR #25, @ KC
07/03/09: HR #31, @ CINN
08/04/09: HR #36, @ NYM
Video links to MLB.com

Reynolds Breaks Strikeout Record. Again.

"So what? We won the game today, I got 100 RBIs, it was a good day." -Mark Reynolds
Link to MLB.com article (with video).

Mark Reynols: Second Ever to Reach 200 SO (the First Was... Er... Mark Reynolds)

Mark Reynolds just became the second player ever to reach the 200 SO plateau for one season.  Just the kind of guy I would love to play wiffleball with.  


The first ever to do it was, well, Mark Reynolds, last year, when he fanned 204 times.  With over a week and a half of regular-season play left, he's right on track to break his own record. 


Could this be the worst MLB hitter ever?  Well, he does have 42 HR this year, second only to Albert 'El Hombre' (by the way, is he really an hombre, or is he a droid of some sort?), Pujols.  Reynolds also has 92 RBI, which puts him among the top 10 in the NL this year.  So he's not a bad hitter; it's just that he only likes to get extra base hits (less than 50% of his 147 hits this year so far have been singles).  Singles are for weaklings, like Ichiro and Jeter.

Here is the ladder that Reynolds has climbed this year: the all-time single season strikeout leaders list (for batters) as of opening day this year:

Rank	Player	Strikeouts	Year
1	Mark Reynolds	204	2008
2	Ryan Howard	199	2007
	Ryan Howard	199	2008
4	Jack Cust	197	2008
5	Adam Dunn	195	2004
6	Adam Dunn	194	2006
7	Bobby Bonds	189	1970
8	José Hernández	188	2002
9	Bobby Bonds	187	1969
10	Preston Wilson	187	2000

Link to Andrew Bagnato's Washington Post article.

Amazing

Ichiro sets MLB record on infield grounder.

Mariners star reaches 200 hits for ninth straight season.

Link to MLB.com article.