Mark Lemke
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Lemke is a word that appears in Homestar Runner cartoons now and again.
Origin
Taken from an interview with The Brothers Chaps
...there was an old local grocery store commercial, and we live in Atlanta, and it advertised the Atlanta Braves. It was like, “the Atlanta Braves hit home runs, and you can hit a home run with savings here!” And so there was this player named Mark Lemke, and they said something like “All star second baseman for the Braves.” And our friend knows nothing about sports, and so he would always do his old timey radio impression of this guy, and not knowing any positions in baseball or whatever, he’d just be like, “Homestar Runner for the Braves.” And we were just like, “Homestar Runner? That’s the best thing we’ve ever heard!”
Mark Lemke was a regular for the Braves from 1990 through 1997 and no longer plays in the majors. According to MLB's website, he was never an all-star.
Lemke's Career Stats: (Baseball-reference.com)
Batting Glossary
Year Ag Tm Lg G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG TB SH SF IBB HBP GDP
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
1988 22 ATL NL 16 58 8 13 4 0 0 2 0 2 4 5 .224 .274 .293 17 2 0 0 0 1 1989 23 ATL NL 14 55 4 10 2 1 2 10 0 1 5 7 .182 .250 .364 20 0 0 0 0 1 1990 24 ATL NL 102 239 22 54 13 0 0 21 0 1 21 22 .226 .286 .280 67 4 2 3 0 6 1991 25 ATL NL 136 269 36 63 11 2 2 23 1 2 29 27 .234 .305 .312 84 6 4 2 0 9 1992 26 ATL NL 155 427 38 97 7 4 6 26 0 3 50 39 .227 .307 .304 130 12 2 11 0 9 1993 27 ATL NL 151 493 52 124 19 2 7 49 1 2 65 50 .252 .335 .341 168 5 6 13 0 21 1994 28 ATL NL 104 350 40 103 15 0 3 31 0 3 38 37 .294 .363 .363 127 6 0 12 0 11 1995 29 ATL NL 116 399 42 101 16 5 5 38 2 2 44 40 .253 .325 .356 142 7 3 4 0 17 1996 30 ATL NL 135 498 64 127 17 0 5 37 5 2 53 48 .255 .323 .319 159 5 6 1 0 9 1997 31 ATL NL 109 351 33 86 17 1 2 26 2 0 33 51 .245 .306 .316 111 8 5 2 0 10 1998 32 BOS AL 31 91 10 17 4 0 0 7 0 1 6 15 .187 .232 .231 21 1 2 0 0 0
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
11 Seasons 1069 3230 349 795 125 15 32 270 11 19 348 341 .246 .317 .324 1046 56 30 48 0 94
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
162 Game Avg 489 53 120 19 2 5 41 2 3 53 52 .246 .317 .324 159 8 5 7 0 14 Career High 155 498 64 127 19 5 7 49 5 3 65 51 .294 .363 .363 168 12 6 13 0 21
Special Batting Glossary
Year Ag Tm Lg PA Outs RC xR xR27 xW OWP BA *lgBA OBP *lgOBP SLG *lgSLG OPS *lgOPS*OPS+ psOPS SB%
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1988 22 ATL NL 64 50 4 | .224 .262| .274 .326| .293 .384| .567 .711| 60 0% 1989 23 ATL NL 60 47 5 | .182 .257| .250 .325| .364 .383| .614 .708| 72 0% 1990 24 ATL NL 266 198 19 | .226 .271| .286 .338| .280 .407| .567 .746| 53 0% 1991 25 ATL NL 308 227 25 | .234 .264| .305 .333| .312 .396| .617 .729| 70 33% 1992 26 ATL NL 491 356 40 | .227 .266| .307 .332| .304 .391| .611 .724| 70 0% 1993 27 ATL NL 569 403 56 | .252 .273| .335 .339| .341 .416| .676 .755| 81 33% 1994 28 ATL NL 394 267 46 | .294 .277| .363 .344| .363 .433| .726 .777| 89 0% 1995 29 ATL NL 453 327 46 | .253 .273| .325 .343| .356 .425| .681 .768| 79 50% 1996 30 ATL NL 562 393 51 | .255 .277| .323 .347| .319 .433| .642 .780| 67 71% 1997 31 ATL NL 397 288 34 | .245 .273| .306 .345| .316 .428| .622 .773| 63 100% 1998 32 BOS AL 100 78 5 | .187 .272| .232 .340| .231 .432| .463 .773| 22 0%
+--------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+----+
11 Seasons 3664 2634 335 | .246 .272| .317 .340| .324 .417| .641 .757| 71 36%
- indicates the value is park adjusted
Fielding Glossary
Year Ag Tm Lg Pos G PO A E DP FP lgFP RFg lgRFg RF9 lgRF9
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
1988 22 ATL NL 2B 16 47 51 3 11 .970 .980 6.12 4.58
1989 23 ATL NL 2B 14 25 40 0 7 1.000 .980 4.64 4.43
1990 24 ATL NL 3B 45 20 71 1 7 .989 .947 2.02 2.31
2B 44 70 121 3 22 .985 .983 4.34 4.28
SS 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.00 4.00
1991 25 ATL NL 2B 110 159 205 8 39 .978 .982 3.31 4.28
3B 15 3 10 2 1 .867 .949 0.87 2.31
1992 26 ATL NL 2B 145 236 325 9 56 .984 .981 3.87 4.27
3B 13 0 10 0 0 1.000 .952 0.77 2.29
1993 27 ATL NL 2B 150 329 442 14 100 .982 .980 5.14 4.49
1994 28 ATL NL 2B 103 209 300 3 58 .994 .981 4.94 4.56
1995 29 ATL NL 2B 115 205 305 5 61 .990 .984 4.43 4.58
1996 30 ATL NL 2B 133 228 410 15 71 .977 .981 4.80 4.40
1997 31 ATL NL 2B 104 191 309 10 65 .980 .980 4.81 4.31
1998 32 BOS AL 2B 31 38 71 0 15 1.000 .978 3.52 4.14
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
Position Total 2B 965 1737 2579 70 505 .984 .981 4.47 4.40
3B 73 23 91 3 8 .974 .948 1.56 2.31
SS 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.00 4.00
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
Overall Total 1039 1760 2671 73 513 .984 .980 4.26 4.25
Postseason Batting
Year Round Tm Opp WLser G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG SB CS SH SF HBP
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1991 NLCS ATL PIT W 7 20 1 4 1 0 0 1 4 0 .200 .333 .250 0 0 0 0 0
WS ATL MIN L 6 24 4 10 1 3 0 4 2 4 .417 .462 .708 0 0 0 0 0
1992 NLCS ATL PIT W 7 21 2 7 1 0 0 2 5 3 .333 .462 .381 0 0 0 0 0
WS ATL TOR L 6 19 0 4 0 0 0 2 1 3 .211 .250 .211 0 0 0 0 0
1993 NLCS ATL PHI L 6 24 2 5 2 0 0 5 1 6 .208 .240 .292 0 0 0 0 0
1995 NLDS ATL COL W 4 19 3 4 1 0 0 1 1 3 .211 .250 .263 0 0 0 0 0
NLCS ATL CIN W 4 18 2 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 .167 .211 .167 0 0 0 0 0
WS ATL CLE W 6 22 1 6 0 0 0 0 3 2 .273 .360 .273 0 1 1 0 0
1996 NLDS ATL LAD W 3 12 1 2 1 0 0 2 0 1 .167 .167 .250 0 0 0 0 0
NLCS ATL STL W 7 27 4 12 2 0 1 5 4 2 .444 .516 .630 0 0 0 0 0
WS ATL NYY L 6 26 2 6 1 0 0 2 0 3 .231 .231 .269 0 0 2 0 0
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2 Lg Div Series 2-0 7 31 4 6 2 0 0 3 1 4 .194 .219 .258 0 0 0 0 0 5 Lg Champ Series 4-1 31 110 11 31 6 0 1 14 15 11 .282 .368 .364 0 0 0 0 0 4 World Series 1-3 24 91 7 26 2 3 0 8 6 12 .286 .330 .374 0 1 3 0 0 11 Postseason Ser 7-4 62 232 22 63 10 3 1 25 22 27 .272 .335 .353 0 1 3 0 0
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WLser shows whether the player's team Won or Lost the series.
Appearances on Leaderboards and Awards Glossary
Awards are Year-League-Award, Stats are Year-Value-Rank
Sac. Hits 1992-12-6
Intentional Walks
1993-13-4
1994-12-7
Grounded into Double Plays
1993-21-4
1995-17-5
HOF Standards: Batting - 11.7 (1423) (Average HOFer ~ 50) HOF Monitor: Batting - 16.0 (841) (Likely HOFer > 100) Overall Rank in parentheses.
Act.- Denotes rank among active players, Car. - Denotes career rank Click on the Car, Act or Year to see the career, active, or league leaderboard.
Appearances
- When you go to Main Page 14 and let the shower get all fogged up, the word "LEMKE" will appear.
- Also, in the Homestar Runner Theme Song you see Pom Pom and Homestar crack open a couple of cold ones in a nondescript room that has a pennant on the wall reading "LEMKE".
- In "Everybody to the Limit", when the words "come on" flash on the Visor Robot, just before the scene changes, "come on" changes to "lemke".
- In stunt double, the newspaper has a picture of Mark Lemke.
