After a long week of work, terrible Bulls basketball, and baseball blogging, I'm exhausted. So, this will be a shorter post. Earlier tonight, Kris Bryant hit a long homer (449 fit) in his first at-bat at Fenway Park.
As I was thinking about how cool that would be to experience, I remembered that Derek Jeter's last at-bat came at Fenway. 36,879 fans—a mix between Yankees and Red Sox supporters—saw Jeter crack his 3,465th hit on September 28, 2014. Jeter was quite bad in his final season: .256/.304/.313 in 145 games.
As I was searching for Jeter footage, I came across Ted Williams' final at-bat at Fenway Park—a home run—on September 29, 1960. 10,454 fans were there to see the 41-year-old legend hit the 521st homer of his career. Williams played 113 games in his final season. His OBP? .451.
Shout out to John Elliot for his analysis. Not to be confused with our brother.
Baseball is here! And more importantly, that means the over/under game is back. It seems as though everyone is an expert this time of year. Somehow we convince ourselves that we are better at predicting baseball outcomes than everyone else. Well, AFITB is putting that to the test for the third year in a row. Think you know more about baseball than us? You probably do. But go ahead and prove it anyway.