For some odd reason, here’s something I had a perverse fascination with and monitored all year: Not once this season did #Mariners field a lineup at any point of any game where all nine hitters had an average at .200 or above. (more)
Not with the use of a pinch-hitter, not with mid-game replacements, not with a guy starting the game under .200 but getting hits in the game to move above the Mendoza Line. (more)
They came agonizingly close to doing it on July 1 (I told you I had a perverse fascination). Dylan Moore was hitting .198 (34-for-172) going into the game with Toronto. If Moore had gotten a hit in his first at-bat against Ryu, voila, his average would have lifted to .202. (more)
That would have done it! The Mariners would have had all nine players in the lineup over .200! Alas, Moore struck out, and his average dipped to .197.
Turns out, this .200 bonanza would have been over in a flash, anyway. Two batters after Moore was Luis Torrens. He was at an even .200 (25-for-125). But Torrens flew out in his first at-bat against Ryu in the second inning to drop to .198. So much for everyone over .200. (more)
Torrens got a hit in the 6th to raise his average back to .203. But by that time, Moore was 0-for-3 to fall to .194. The moment of truth had passed. Moore never approached .200 again. And the Mariners never fielded that ever-elusive all-.200 lineup.
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