He still has not been beaned since the creation of this blog. That is very frustrating. Melky hit for a cycle to bring a ray of light to the Yankees after this very dark weekend of baseball. I'm somewhat busy at work today so here are a few quick thoughts:
Peter Abraham has a great piece on CC's reaction to his 3rd inning yesterday. Being able to shut a team down after they rough you up for an innings is so important. Many pitchers never achieve greatness because they are not able to simply put a bad inning behind them. CC apparently is very good at doing just that.
I have a sunburn on my shoulders. I'm really happy about it.
And the biggest story of the weekend for me was Melky's cycle. Why do no hitters get so much more credit than a cycle? I am by no means discrediting a no hitter as they are incredibly impressive, but I see the cycle as equally impressive. There have been 263 no-hitters and 286 cycles in the history of baseball. On any given day during the baseball season there are just 30 chances for a no-hitter one per starting pitcher of each team, but there are 270 chances for a cycle (nine hitters per team). The event-per-opportunity ratio for a cycle is significantly smaller than it is for a no-hitter. If a pitcher threw a no hitter yesterday ESPN would run an outside the lines special on him all day today. Melky will get a 20 second clip showing his 4 hits and maybe a sentence spoken through a translator. (Why can Robinson Cano speak fine English and Melky not a word?) Hopefully Espn doesn't show THIS wonderful clip of melky in a hotel room with a B list pornstar.
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