Happy Recondite Birthday (in advance)

TheJay's blog, Recondite Baseball, turns one year old in a scant three weeks.   (The odds of my remembering  on the day itself are pretty slim, so I thought I'd do this now.  Leaves everyone enough time to buy a present.)

No small feat, that:

Several studies indicate that most blogs are abandoned soon after creation (with 60% to 80% abandoned within one month, depending on whose figures you choose to believe) and that few are regularly updated.

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The Perseus report noted above indicates that 66.0% of surveyed blogs had not been updated in two months, "representing 2.72 million blogs that have been either permanently or temporarily abandoned".

Anyway, here's my present:

In the brief history of Miller Park, only six players have recorded five or more hits in one game.  Of those six, only one was a Brewer, although a future (and now ex-) Brewer also accomplished the feat.   (Feel free to guess who those two were; click the link to see the full data.)

Only one out of the six, Geoff Blum, did not have a home run as one of his five hits.  This was fortunate for the Brewers, as Blum was the only player in the list to get five hits yet lose the game. The Astros lost 3-2, and not once did Blum come around to score.