A Hammer in Hot'lanta

Yikes.  No Greg Maddux slander on LDOT's watch; the man has receipts.

Also I may be over-analysing this, but I'm not even sure the logic of "I'm not throwing at a guy until I'm done batting because I'm afraid they'll throw back at me" makes much sense.  Maybe I just don't remember what NL baseball was like before the DH, but I feel like retaliatory HBPs were almost always against a real hitter, not against the pitcher himself.  A quick perusal of stathead indicates there have only been 26 pitchers in my lifetime who got hit by a pitch more than once.  That seems to somewhat support my memory, maybe.

So ... Greg Maddox pitching for the Cubs on opening day against the first batter he faced in an 0-1 count purposefully hit Dykstra... Who played the rest of the game. And probably broke his wrist in a roid rage incident in the dugout later.

Damn that Greg Maddux what a dick

let's have fun with stats!

1991 - 6 hit batters, 2 in the 3rd inning, 3 in the 5th, 1 in the 7th
1992 - 14 hit batters, 4 in 1st, 1 in 2nd, 1 in 3rd, 1 in 4th, 3 in 5th, 3 in 6th, 1 in 8th
1993 (first in ATL) - 6 hit batters, 1 in 1st, 1 in 2nd, 1 in 4th, 2 in 5th, 1 in the 7th
1994 - 6 hit batters, 1 in 1st, 2 in 2nd, 2 in 7th, 1 in 8th
1995 - 4 hit batters, 1 in 1st, 1 in 3rd, 2 in 6th
1996 - 3 hit batters, 1 in 5th, 1 in 6th, 1 in 7th, must have been the revenge year after winning the WS for... reasons
1997 - 6 hit batters, 1 in 1st, 2 in 3rd, 1 in 5th, 1 in 6th, 1 in 7th
1998 - 7 hit batters, 1 in 1st, 1 in 3rd, 1 in 4th, 1 in 6th, 2 in 7th, 1 in 9th
1999 - 4 hit batters, 1 in 1st, 2 in 2nd, 1 in 4th, see, love always wins out
2000 - 10 hit batters, 2 in 3rd, 2 in 4th, 2 in 5th, 3 in 6th, 1 in 9th
2001 - 7 hit batters, 1 in 1st, 1 in 2nd, 1 in 3rd, 1 in 4th, 2 in 6th, 1 in 7th
2002 - 4 hit batters, 1 in 1st, 1 in 2nd, 1 in 3rd, 1 in 4th, seeeeeeeee loooooooove wins ooooooout
2003 - 8 hit batters, 2 in 1st, 3 in 3rd, 1 in 4th, 1 in 5th, 1 in 6th
2004 (back in CHC) - 9 hit batters. 2 in 1st, 4 in 3rd, 1 in 4th, 1 in 5th, 1 in 6th

so across 14 seasons here we have:

94 hit batters
16 in the 1st inning (17%)
8 in 2nd inning (8.5%)
18 in 3rd inning (19.1%)
10 in 4th inning (10.6%)
14 in 5th inning (14.9%)
15 in 6th inning (16%)
9 in the 7th inning (9.6%)
2 in the 8th inning (2.1%)
2 in the 9th inning (2.1%)


42 in the first third of the game (44.7%)
39 in the middle third (41.5%)
lucky 13 in the last third, 2 being in the 9th when I'm sure he's gonna risk his CG, possible SH, by hitting a batter (13.8%)

during this time, 435 starts with 3,057 and 2/3 innings pitched meaning averaged 7+ IP per start yet somehow this monstrous asshole who hits people late when he's not going to bat again later, did this less than once a season and of the innings you could expect him to pitch through during this time, only the 2nd inning had fewer HBP

But poor Lenny Dykstra's wrist got a boo boo on the 2nd pitch of the season in 1992 so Maddux is an asshole, not the roided up team of assholes and certainly not this guy: 


In 1991, Dykstra crashed his red Mercedes-Benz SL 500 into a tree on Darby-Paoli Road in Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, after attending the bachelor party of Phillies teammate John Kruk. Dykstra suffered broken ribs, a broken collarbone and a broken facial bone, in addition to second-degree burns on his left arm and lower back. Darren Daulton, also a teammate, was a passenger in the car at the time; his injuries included an injured eye and a broken facial bone. According to Radnor Township Police, Dykstra's blood alcohol content was measured at 0.179% shortly after the crash, over double the legal limit of 0.08% in the state. Dykstra was charged with "driving under the influence of alcohol, speeding and reckless driving".


In 1999, he was arrested for sexual harassment of a 17-year-old girl who worked at his car wash. The criminal charges were later dropped.

In January 2011, Dykstra was accused of sexual assault by his housekeeper. She alleged that he had forced her to perform oral sex on him. The woman told investigators "she needed the job and the money, so she went along with the suspect's requests rather than lose her job".

In April 2011, the Los Angeles Police Department Commercial Crimes Division arrested Dykstra on separate grand theft charges related to the purchase of vehicles. He was held on $500,000 bail. On April 13, 2011, Dykstra was arrested for investigation of grand theft by Los Angeles police at his Encino home on suspicion of trying to buy a stolen car, the day after Dykstra, in an unrelated federal complaint, had been charged with embezzling from a bankruptcy estate. He faced up to five years in federal prison if convicted. Federal prosecutors contended that after filing for bankruptcy Dykstra hid, sold, or destroyed more than $400,000 worth of items from the $18.5 million mansion in question without permission of a bankruptcy trustee.

On August 25, 2011, Dykstra was charged with indecent exposure. The Los Angeles City Attorney accused him of placing ads on Craigslist requesting a personal assistant or housekeeping services. The victims alleged that when they arrived, they were informed that the job also required massage service and that Dykstra then exposed himself to them. He was given a nine-month sentence for lewd conduct.


On July 13, 2012, Dykstra pleaded guilty in federal court to three felonies: one count each of bankruptcy fraud, concealment of assets, and money laundering. He admitted to hiding, selling, or destroying over $400,000 worth of items that were supposed to be part of his bankruptcy filing. On December 3, 2012, he was sentenced to six-and-a-half months in prison and 500 hours of community service, and was ordered to pay $200,000 in restitution.

On May 23, 2018, Dykstra was arrested for drug possession and for uttering terroristic threats. He allegedly held a gun to his Uber driver after the driver refused to change destinations.

Dykstra sued Darling for defamation in April 2020 but the case was dismissed on June 1, 2020, with the judge citing Dykstra's documented reputation as being "among other things, racist, misogynist and anti-gay, as well as a sexual predator, a drug-abuser, a thief and an embezzler" as the reason.


Never change, Philly

lenny was a gamer and the Phillies don’t get to the series in 1993 without him.

How was Greg Maddux likable exactly? Seems like a smug prick to me, with his 88 mph heater