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How rare is this?

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Tuesday, 28 June 2011, at 5:12 p.m.

In Response To: OT -- Amazing Baseball Hitting Occurrence (Bill Riles)

I suspect such an (undetected) double hit happens every several games, or something like once every other day over all of MLB. Of course winding up on base (and credited with a hit) would surely be much rarer -- maybe a few times per season? And I would expect those to be infield hits, so this one (outfield single) could be ("ballpark" :) a once-per-season occurrence.

Those are just my WAG's. Anyone else?

In order to make an accurate estimate I think one would be helped quite a bit to know how often a bat is broken. (I don't know the answer to that, but I'd guess 2 or 3 per game.)

Messages In This Thread

• OT -- Amazing Baseball Hitting Occurrence
  Bill Riles -- Monday, 27 June 2011, at 1:58 p.m.
  • OT -- Amazing Baseball Hitting Occurrence
    Casper van der Tak -- Monday, 27 June 2011, at 2:15 p.m.
    • OT -- Amazing Baseball Hitting Occurrence
      Bill Riles -- Monday, 27 June 2011, at 2:56 p.m.
      • OT -- Amazing Baseball Hitting Occurrence
        Casper van der Tak -- Monday, 27 June 2011, at 3:09 p.m.
      • OT -- Amazing Baseball Hitting Occurrence
        Jason Lee -- Tuesday, 28 June 2011, at 12:05 a.m.
  • How rare is this?
    Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 28 June 2011, at 5:12 p.m.
    • How rare is this?
      Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 28 June 2011, at 6:40 p.m.
    • How rare is this?
      Jason Lee -- Tuesday, 28 June 2011, at 7:35 p.m.
      • +1 *NM*
        rory -- Tuesday, 28 June 2011, at 8:01 p.m.
    • How rare is this?
      Bill Riles -- Tuesday, 28 June 2011, at 7:44 p.m.
      • How rare is this?
        Stick -- Wednesday, 29 June 2011, at 2:34 a.m.
        • How rare is this?
          Bill Riles -- Wednesday, 29 June 2011, at 4:43 p.m.
          • How rare is this?
            Henrik Bukkjaer -- Wednesday, 29 June 2011, at 9:00 p.m.
          • How rare is this?
            bob Koca -- Thursday, 30 June 2011, at 2:00 a.m.
    • Seeking another opinion...
      Chuck Bower -- Wednesday, 29 June 2011, at 3:24 p.m.
      • And yet another -- first response, more later
        Chuck Bower -- Wednesday, 29 June 2011, at 5:52 p.m.
        • Not a scientific answer, but an observation
          Joe Russell -- Thursday, 30 June 2011, at 1:58 a.m.
          • Not a scientific answer, but an observation
            Bob Koca -- Thursday, 30 June 2011, at 2:01 a.m.
            • Not a scientific answer, but an observation
              adambulldog -- Thursday, 30 June 2011, at 2:04 a.m.
              • Not a scientific answer, but an observation
                Stick -- Thursday, 30 June 2011, at 3:54 a.m.
            • Not a scientific answer, but an observation
              Joe Russell -- Thursday, 30 June 2011, at 3:22 a.m.
              • Not a scientific answer, but an observation
                Backgame -- Thursday, 30 June 2011, at 5:23 a.m.
              • Not a scientific answer, but an observation
                Henrik Bukkjaer -- Thursday, 30 June 2011, at 7:36 a.m.
              • Not a scientific answer, but an observation
                Bill Riles -- Thursday, 30 June 2011, at 1:55 p.m.
                • Not a scientific answer, but an observation
                  Joe Russell -- Thursday, 30 June 2011, at 3:03 p.m.
            • 1985 US Open
              Chuck Bower -- Thursday, 30 June 2011, at 1:40 p.m.
              • 1985 US Open
                Michael Petch -- Thursday, 30 June 2011, at 9:43 p.m.
  • OT -- Amazing Baseball Hitting Occurrence
    Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 28 June 2011, at 9:56 p.m.
  • OT -- Amazing Baseball Hitting Occurrence
    adambulldog -- Thursday, 30 June 2011, at 1:53 a.m.