Happy Birthday SOTD
Posted by Andy on June 5, 2008
Today is the first birthday of this blog. There have been 642 posts and a whole lot of comments.
Posted by Andy on June 5, 2008
Today is the first birthday of this blog. There have been 642 posts and a whole lot of comments.
June 5th, 2008 at 11:25 am
I noticed last night that Joe Mauer of the Twins drove in 2 runs on a single sacrifice fly; how common is such an event?
June 5th, 2008 at 11:39 am
even though I feel safe in saying this shouldn't have been asked here - I will give a reply - ESPN says that the Twins say the last time this was done was....05/08/2001 CIN V ARI - When you look at the box though, you'll see that something else stands out big time about that game which makes the 2 R SF appear a little less impressive.
June 5th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Here's the game:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ARI/ARI200105080.shtml
RJ had 20 Ks.
June 5th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Happy birthday, SOTD, and many happy returns.
June 5th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Prior to that it happened in 1997 and 1996.
On a related note: Here is the last player to get a sacrifice fly even though he didn't bat with a runner on 3rd.
http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/SD65
June 5th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
I wonder if this is a mistake.
http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/aGqP
Did Giambi actually knock in Velarde from first?
Or did Velarde actually advance in the previous at-bat on the play at the plate?
Anybody know?
June 6th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Raphy,
The fielder was Bernie Williams, so it wouldn't surprise me if the runner scored from first on his arm! 😉 There must either be an error in the box score, or maybe Bernie was injured on the play (but he stayed in the game).
June 8th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
test
June 8th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
There's a mistake in the game log. After singling, Velarde advanced to 2nd on the throw home, and then to 3rd when Posada fought with Phillips after their collision.
I tried posting this a few times but it won't show up for some reason. I wonder if it has something to do with my trying to paste a link. I am leaving the link out, but you can look up the NY Times game story for 8/12/99.