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Former New York Yankees and Oakland A\u2019s slugger Reggie Jackson hit 18 home runs in 318 postseason plate appearances. Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy has 15 homers in the postseason, in 323 plate appearances.<\/p>\n
Should those statistics be given equal treatment on a World Series broadcast\u00a0\u2014\u00a0or is further context necessary?<\/p>\n
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Jackson made it clear how he would answer the question. He slammed Davis\u2019 comparison of Muncy\u2019s 15 homers to those of Babe Ruth, who also slugged 15 in 167 career plate appearances in the World Series.<\/p>\n The guy b-casting now on World Series. What\u2019s his name, I know Smoltzy. How\u2019s he say Muncey has same postseasn HRs as Ruth??What r you talking about. Ruth hit 15 HRs, all World Series HRs, Mickey had 18 WS hrs If they\u2019d played 4\/5 series in those days like today, Babe and\u2026<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/mroctober\/status\/1984805703371096135?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n \u201cThe guy b-casting now on World Series. What\u2019s his name, I know Smoltzy. How\u2019s he say Muncey has same postseasn HRs as Ruth??What r you talking about. Ruth hit 15 HRs, all World Series HRs, Mickey had 18 WS hrs If they\u2019d played 4\/5 series in those days like today, Babe and Mickey would have 50-100 hrs get it right please. embarrassing, what the Babe and Mickey did in the WS. I think there\u2019s a 3 gm a 5 gm and 2 7 game series That\u2019s 22 games a year, not (7) your info is ?? and it\u2019s all right there in front of you with someone else to look it up for ya.\u201d<\/p>\n When is one player\u2019s postseason home run total not comparable to another? It depends on who you ask.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Davis isn\u2019t wrong. Ruth and Muncy hit 15 home runs in their postseason careers. There are a number of ways to caveat those statistics beyond what Jackson took time to recognize.<\/p>\n Ruth never had to face Black American or Latin American pitchers. Muncy\u2019s teams never got to advance to the World Series directly \u2014\u00a0but he had just as much control over the playoff format, the number of teams in the league, and his opponents\u2019 ethnic background as Ruth.<\/p>\n How much context does the average World Series viewer need? There\u2019s no right or wrong answer, but Jackson certainly made his point of view clear.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former New York Yankees and Oakland A’s slugger Reggie Jackson hit 18 home runs in 318 postseason plate appearances. Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy has 15 homers in the postseason, in 323 plate appearances. Should those statistics be given equal treatment on a World Series broadcast\u00a0\u2014\u00a0or is further context necessary? MORE: One image…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":116431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"\n\n