Shohei Ohtani has been intentionally walked four times this year — as a pitcher. Has any other pitcher ever done that? That’s tricky, since intentional walks only became an official stat in 1955. jaysonst looks into in this week's Weird & Wild ⤵️
Was I really so accustomed to the transcendent greatness of Ohtani that I almost took for granted that a major-league teamYup! And the more I thought about it … and looked into it … the more wild it felt. So why is that? I’ll tell you why.So here’s the question: What other pitcher has ever done that? Well, that’s tricky, since intentional walks only became an official stat in 1955. But in the nearly seven decades since,In a career.
But Baseball Reference also tracks unofficial intentional walks before 1955. So how could we not check to see if any other pitcher piled up four of those in a season, as a pitcher, even unofficially? And that answer is … just one … yes, Babe Ruth himself, in 1918.Again, this is highly unofficial.
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