If there used to be some truth behind the old saying about baseball’s guarantee of something new every night, there isn’t any longer. It is very often personally true, of course. It’s just hardly ever technically so. By now, professional baseball’s scale is simply too great. The historical sample sizes have begun to feel cartoonish, with 19,489 MLB players and 14,950,455 at-bats; 3,909,110 hits and 109,631 hit batsmen; 664,801 doubles and 387,330 double plays. And these are just the recorded numbers. (Through Sunday, at least.) Everything has happened. Oh, sure, plays are unfolding all the time in different ways with different guys and different storylines.
Where Baseball's Walked Before: Michael Wacha Made History Monday (Well, Almost)
