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Mind-Blowing Trivia

I’m going to give you a batting line from the last two days and you try to identify who it belongs to. Ready? 

12 AB, 9 H, 2 HR, 4 RBI, 6 R. 

Reasonable guesses: 

  • Jose Bautista
  • Joey Votto
  • Albert Pujols
  • Alex Rodriguez

Less reasonable guesses: 

  • Miguel Cairo
  • Craig Counsell
  • Micah Owings

And you would still be wrong. Nope, this particular hot streak belongs to the one, the only, Corey Patterson. The same Corey Patterson who, heretofore, shocked me by residing on a Major League Roster. The same Corey Patterson who has a career sub .300 OBP and has played for six teams in the last five years. That Corey Patterson. 

Dwayne Murphy deserves a Nobel Prize and a Mercury Award and anything else you can give the guy because, after perfecting Jose Bautista, he’s given the 32-year-old Patterson a new lease on life. Patterson’s OPS is the second highest of his career, behind only his 2003 campaign where he played in only 83 games. 

The saving grace is that Patterson hasn’t drawn a walk in the last two games. Proving that some things never change. 

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