Miracle averted, Jeff Francoeur avoids 3-walk game

Jeff Francoeur does not walk much. Coming into last night's game, he had 7 walks in 223 plate appearances. Pitcher Jamie Moyer has 6 in 25 plate appearances. He holds a career 4.9% walk rate (for reference, Dontrelle Willis has a career 5.2% BB rate), with this year being a career low 3.2%. Pretty ridiculous

As of this post, Jeff Francoeur has never walked more than twice in a game. Including tonight, he has 11 multiwalk games (each with 2 walks) in 604 career games, with two walks in each game.

2009: 2
2008: 2
2007: 6
2006: 0
2005: 1

According to Las Vegas odds, the Phillies pitching staff has a better chance of throwing back to back perfect games than Francoeur does of getting 3 walks in a game.

Tonight/last night, Francouer was putting up his normal 1-4 line through 9 innings. But that's when he broke out. He walked in 10th inning on an intentional walk, which is stunning as this guy has struck out on balls to the backstop, pitchouts, and pickoff throws to first. Then in the 12th inning, he walked again, this time unintentionally.

All of baseball watched with bated breath to see if Francoeur would get another chance at history. The game went to the 13th, the 14th, and finally Frenchy got another chance in the 15th.

He then failed at a sac bunt. Pathetic. He then managed to score the winning run, ruining his chance at history.

Viewers were left disappointed, but enjoyed their chance at seeing something that is slightly more common than a no hitter but rarer than hitting for the cycle (since Francoeuer entnered the league, there have been 6 no hitters and 17 cycles)

(I apologize for the comparatively serious posts from me lately that are more "that's true and really sad" than "here's some hyperbole to make it funny")