Toronto beat the Yankees last night at Yankee Stadium to even the season series at three and three. It was an unremarkable game, really; final score 7-3.
That's not to say it was totally uneventful. Toronto third baseman Edwin Encarnacion (I don't speak Spanish, but it looks remarkably like a translation of "Second Coming of Butch Hobson") made his 11th error, booting a ground ball.
Encarnacion has split his time between third and first base, starting 16 games at the hot corner. In those 16 games, he's committed eight errors. For those whose maths skills are roughly the equivalent of E-squared's fielding skills, that's an error every other game, a remarkable feat. The most errors committed at third in the past 100 years is 43, a record that EE would not only break over a full season, but bury the pieces.
How bad is EE's glovework?
ESPN had a list of other Strangegloves who have played third (e.g., Butch Hobson, who made the aforementioned 43 miscues), and their abysmal fielding percentages were generally between .850 and .899.
It's awful to have a FA below .900 (meaning you boot one of every ten plays).
Encarnacion's fielding average this hear is below .800 (.784). This means that one of every five balls hit to Encarnacion results in an error.
That's not particularly good for someone playing in Pony League.
Oh - for good measure, E-squared has made three errors in 60 innings of play at first base.
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