By Blaidd Drwg
Over the weekend, the Mariners played the White Sox. There is really nothing all that special about 2 teams that are floundering pretty badly at the plate going against each other and you would expect some pretty low scoring games, which you got.
There was, however, an interesting side bar to this series – it involved two of the career leaders in TTO% (remember that – if not check here and here) – Adam Dunn and Jack Cust. Below is a chart showing their 2011 campaigns through the end of the day Sunday (I also added in Mark Reynolds for a reason to be explained shortly).
| PA | HR | BB | SO | TTO% | |
| Jack Cust | 127 | 0 | 25 | 37 | 48.8% |
| Adam Dunn | 117 | 3 | 19 | 36 | 49.6% |
| Mark Reynolds | 127 | 3 | 16 | 34 | 41.7% |
Dunn has a slight lead over Cust right now. Here is how they both did over the weekend:
| G | PA | HR | BB | SO | TTO% | |
| Dunn | 3 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 35.7% |
| Cust | 3 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 33.3% |
I will admit – it was somewhat disappointing to see 26 PA between the 2 of them and no HRs. Dunn hit a bomb to the warning track on Saturday and Cust hit one off the CF fence on Sunday, but that was as close as either came. The interesting thing about Dunn is both his walks and none of his strikeouts came against Felix Hernandez.
Why do I mention Mark Reynolds above – well, the M’s move on to play the Orioles now, so we get to see the battle of Cust vs. Reynolds in the TTO arena.
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