Stadium 15. Safeco Field and baseball randomness

Baseball is very very random. I love it but people are usually bored during games and will sit there and go after the stats. I am a statistics person, so I love it. There are so many of them that it just makes you go nuts. This is where you find out random things and go wow. Records will be broken in games that you never even knew there were records of!

Every year after Christmas, but before the New Year, Jayson Stark of ESPN comes out with an article detailing the Strange but True events of the previous year in MLB. Most of it is very random but makes you chuckle. Especially the dumb injuries.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/12081854/mlb-strange-true-2014

There are some quality gems in there.

So lets start with the Marlins yesterday who are the one team that has scored the least amount of runs this year so of course they score 14 runs yesterday on 17 hits.

-The Marlins set a franchise record 10 runs scored in an inning when they teed off the Red Sox with 10 runs on 10 hits in the frame.



- JT Realmuto set a franchise record of RBIs in an inning with 5. I thought that mark would of been hit already.
-JT also hit a home run, triple, and a single but was short of a cycle.

-There have been 306 cycles in MLB History

-No Marlin has ever hit for a cycle in the 23 seasons of Marlins baseball.

-The San Diego Padres are the only other franchise that hasn't had a player hit for a cycle and they have been playing 47 seasons out there.

-There are also 291 no hitters in MLB History. The Marlins can claim 5 of those. The Padres can claim none....

In even weirder baseball news. On Tuesday the home team won every single baseball game and went 15-0! That feet has never occurred in baseball history and the closest we have come to that was 12-0 in 1914! The home team wins about 54 percent of their games so the probability of it happening was .000968 or .00968 percent. It was probably even lower since the Marlins were one of those home teams....

This event was capped off when the Mariners walked off in extra innings at.....

15. Safeco Field! (love that transition?)

Located in the South downtown district (SoDo) of Seattle and neighboring Qwest Field, Safeco Field is easily accessible by train from downtown Seattle and Tacoma. Safeco opened in the middle of the 1999 season. 

Safeco has great views of the city from the first base side and sounds of the train station right behind it. 

It was the last stop of my 32 stadium tour which does bring a smile to my face . The seafood selection at the park was outstanding but the park does not quite have that baseball feel. The biggest debbie downer was the alcohol police roaming around the stadium making sure there was no underage drinking. I have never ever seen that at a stadium. I even saw them harass some kids with pop because they swore that they spiked their drink. How is that even remotely ok??

The late sunset over the city really makes this a great sight to see and I was happy that this is where my tour ended up. Safeco still falls in the middle of the pack because there are just stadiums and experiences better than this!

Next up: RAWR!