Derek Jeter's Top 10
Derek Jeter's Top 10
April 29, 2007
Compiled by Patrick Dunne
The Yankees All-Star shortstop appeared on the "Late Show with David Letterman" Thursday night and read the "Top 10 Little-Known Facts About Derek Jeter"...
10.) In 2002, I set a major league record of 97 consecutive games without scratching myself.
9.) I can put five baseballs in my mouth.
8.) Remember I missed a game last year with a "pulled hamstring"? I actually had Streisand tickets.
7.) When Johnny Damon cut his hair, I put it in my scrapbook.
6.) I'd trade my four World Series rings for a spot on Late Show's "Impressionist Week II"
5.) When Red Sox fans shout, "Yankees suck," it really hurts my feelings.
4.) The thing I love most about being a baseball player is seeing a child's eyes light up big when I give him an autograph. ... Oh, and the crazy paycheck.
3.) Between you and me, I don't get all the [butt]-slapping either.
2.) So I'm not bothered by fans, I check into hotels under the name "Dave Letterman."
1.) Rosie quit "The View" so we could spend more time together.
From Late Show with David Letterman, WorldWide Pants, Inc.
Every Reason To Be Peeved
IPHRERBBSOERANPPeavy 720 0 3161.67116Jake Peavy was about as dominant as any pitcher could be Wednesday night but came away without a victory to show for it. Among the Padres righthander's 16 strikeouts against the Diamondbacks were nine in a row. Only a walk to Eric Byrnes on a 3-and-2 check swing call kept Peavy from tying Tom Seaver's record of 10 strikeouts in a row, set for the Mets in a 19K performance against the Padres in 1970. Worse than missing the record was what happened after Peavy left the game. Stephen Drew took all-time saves leader Trevor Hoffman deep for a two-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth for a 3-2 D'Backs victory. His performance wasted, Peavy took it in stride. "That bullpen has picked me up time and time again, and they're going to have nights like this," he told The Associated Press. "We can't expect all of them to be perfect." Peavy should be used to it. Last May, he also struck out 16 (the franchise record) in a 3-1 loss to the Braves.
Lefthanders And Carbon Dating, Part II
The night before Peavy's gem and less than two weeks after graybeards Jamie Moyer, 44, and Tom Glavine, 41, hooked up in the oldest major league matchup of lefthanders, a pair of old ex-Yankees got together Tuesday night to put that record out to pasture. David Wells and Randy Johnson, dissimilar body types but the same age (43), were a combined 87 years, 300 days old when they squared off, and pitched like it. (Moyer and Glavine were a mere 85 years, 163 days old.) Johnson was hit hard in his first start in his return to Arizona after two turbulent seasons in the Bronx. Wells, who knows all about turbulent years as a Yankee, was hit almost as hard but he and the Padres came away with a 10-5 victory.
Oh, Those Amazing Four-Homer-In-A-Row Coincidences
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The number of players who twice have been part of quartet that hit four consecutive home runs in an inning: a.k.a. J.D. Drew. Four homers in a row has only been done five times and Drew was in the middle of the past two. The Red Sox right fielder was No. 2 both in the sequence Sunday night in the third inning against the Yankees and late last season (Sept. 18, 2006) for the Dodgers against the Padres. One also describes the number of managers of a team that pulled off the feat whose father was part of a four-homer-in-row-group. Red Sox manager Terry Francona's father, Tito, was the third in a group of Cleveland Indians that went deep consecutively, all off the Angels' Paul Foytack, on July 31, 1963. ... Oh, and who ended the Braves' home run streak the night they pulled the four-peat against the Reds (June 8, 1961)? Joe Torre, then the Braves catcher, who grounded out after Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron, Joe Adcock and Frank Thomas had homered. Sunday night, Torre, watching from the dugout as Yankees manager, saw rookie starter Chase Wright join Foytack as the only pitchers to give up four consecutive homers in an inning. Contacted by Newsday, Foytack, now 76 and living in Tennessee, said: "Well, he tied me. And I thought I was going to have that record forever!"
courant.com is Copyright © 2007 by The Hartford Courant
April 29, 2007
Compiled by Patrick Dunne
The Yankees All-Star shortstop appeared on the "Late Show with David Letterman" Thursday night and read the "Top 10 Little-Known Facts About Derek Jeter"...
10.) In 2002, I set a major league record of 97 consecutive games without scratching myself.
9.) I can put five baseballs in my mouth.
8.) Remember I missed a game last year with a "pulled hamstring"? I actually had Streisand tickets.
7.) When Johnny Damon cut his hair, I put it in my scrapbook.
6.) I'd trade my four World Series rings for a spot on Late Show's "Impressionist Week II"
5.) When Red Sox fans shout, "Yankees suck," it really hurts my feelings.
4.) The thing I love most about being a baseball player is seeing a child's eyes light up big when I give him an autograph. ... Oh, and the crazy paycheck.
3.) Between you and me, I don't get all the [butt]-slapping either.
2.) So I'm not bothered by fans, I check into hotels under the name "Dave Letterman."
1.) Rosie quit "The View" so we could spend more time together.
From Late Show with David Letterman, WorldWide Pants, Inc.
Every Reason To Be Peeved
IPHRERBBSOERANPPeavy 720 0 3161.67116Jake Peavy was about as dominant as any pitcher could be Wednesday night but came away without a victory to show for it. Among the Padres righthander's 16 strikeouts against the Diamondbacks were nine in a row. Only a walk to Eric Byrnes on a 3-and-2 check swing call kept Peavy from tying Tom Seaver's record of 10 strikeouts in a row, set for the Mets in a 19K performance against the Padres in 1970. Worse than missing the record was what happened after Peavy left the game. Stephen Drew took all-time saves leader Trevor Hoffman deep for a two-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth for a 3-2 D'Backs victory. His performance wasted, Peavy took it in stride. "That bullpen has picked me up time and time again, and they're going to have nights like this," he told The Associated Press. "We can't expect all of them to be perfect." Peavy should be used to it. Last May, he also struck out 16 (the franchise record) in a 3-1 loss to the Braves.
Lefthanders And Carbon Dating, Part II
The night before Peavy's gem and less than two weeks after graybeards Jamie Moyer, 44, and Tom Glavine, 41, hooked up in the oldest major league matchup of lefthanders, a pair of old ex-Yankees got together Tuesday night to put that record out to pasture. David Wells and Randy Johnson, dissimilar body types but the same age (43), were a combined 87 years, 300 days old when they squared off, and pitched like it. (Moyer and Glavine were a mere 85 years, 163 days old.) Johnson was hit hard in his first start in his return to Arizona after two turbulent seasons in the Bronx. Wells, who knows all about turbulent years as a Yankee, was hit almost as hard but he and the Padres came away with a 10-5 victory.
Oh, Those Amazing Four-Homer-In-A-Row Coincidences
1
The number of players who twice have been part of quartet that hit four consecutive home runs in an inning: a.k.a. J.D. Drew. Four homers in a row has only been done five times and Drew was in the middle of the past two. The Red Sox right fielder was No. 2 both in the sequence Sunday night in the third inning against the Yankees and late last season (Sept. 18, 2006) for the Dodgers against the Padres. One also describes the number of managers of a team that pulled off the feat whose father was part of a four-homer-in-row-group. Red Sox manager Terry Francona's father, Tito, was the third in a group of Cleveland Indians that went deep consecutively, all off the Angels' Paul Foytack, on July 31, 1963. ... Oh, and who ended the Braves' home run streak the night they pulled the four-peat against the Reds (June 8, 1961)? Joe Torre, then the Braves catcher, who grounded out after Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron, Joe Adcock and Frank Thomas had homered. Sunday night, Torre, watching from the dugout as Yankees manager, saw rookie starter Chase Wright join Foytack as the only pitchers to give up four consecutive homers in an inning. Contacted by Newsday, Foytack, now 76 and living in Tennessee, said: "Well, he tied me. And I thought I was going to have that record forever!"
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