Commemorative No-Hitter Card
One of those players who tends to fly under the radar is Seattle's James Paxton, whose 16-strikeout game against the Athletics got relegated to a brief mention in last week's post after a Dodgers no-hitter and Gerrit Cole's one-hit shutout. Well, he'll show us, won't he? On Tuesday Paxton threw the season's third no-no (on May 8!) in shutting out the Blue Jays 5-0. That feat was even more remarkable given the "bandbox" reputation of Rogers Centre; it's only the third no-hitter thrown there. The last was by Justin Verlander seven years and one day earlier, and the first was by Oakland's Dave Stewart on June 29, 1990, famous as The Day With Two No-Hitters (Fernando Valenzuela). And Paxton-- who hails from Ladner, British Columbia-- became just the second Canadian native to throw a no-hitter, joining Dick Fowler in 1945. Fowler missed most of the 1943-45 seasons while serving in the Canadian Army, and his no-hitter for the Athletics on September 9, 1945, was his first start in the majors in three years. That game was at Shibe Park against the St Louis Browns....
Crunchy Stick Of Gum
...Who of course would become the Baltimore Orioles within a decade, and for whom Dylan Bundy started Tuesday's game against the Royals. Bundy's designs on throwing a no-hitter disappeared in three pitches when Jon Jay beat out an infield single. It was really the next six batters that were an issue. Bundy walked two of them... and the other four all homered. He was pulled after seven runs, five hits, and zero outs recorded. Only one other starter in Orioles/Browns history had given up seven earned runs and not recorded an out, Joe Coleman in Cleveland on July 6, 1954. And Bundy became the first pitcher (starter or reliever) in major-league history to throw 0 IP and give up four homers.
The Royals would go on to pile up the first double-digit inning in the majors this season, and the second 10-run 1st inning in team history. The other was August 23, 2006, against the Indians, and they ended up losing that game in extras after allowing four runs in the 9th. The Orioles had not given up a 10-run 1st since September 20, 1983, in Detroit.
The second of those four homers off Bundy came from Mike Moustakas, who would go on to hit a two-run dinger in the 5th and drive in five runs. Only one other Royal has had a 2-HR, 5-RBI game at Camden Yards... and it's Mike Moustakas (September 12, 2015). For even more synergy, those are the only two games in Moose's career where he's had that line.
Bundy did rebound on Sunday to throw seven shutout innings and defeat the Rays (if by "defeat" you mean just the second 17-1 victory in Orioles/Browns history). However, you've gotta think he was offering a knowing nod to the opposite dugout, where reliever Andrew Kittredge entered in the 4th inning after Ian Snell had been tagged for three homers. Kittredge faced seven batters, allowed six hits and a walk, and six of the runs scored. Look familiar? Aside from the seventh run being stranded, it's Bundy's exact line from Tuesday (0 IP, 7 BF). The last time any two pitchers did that within a week of each other was when the Pirates' John Hope (not the late Weather Channel hurricane guy) and Montreal's Gil Heredia posted that line on July 1 and 7, 1995. In similar fashion, one (Heredia) was a starter and one did it as a reliever. If you narrow the window to six days, it goes back to July 7 and 11, 1913, when Earl Moore of the Phillies and Doc White, appropriately of the White Sox, both managed it.
I Think I Have This Guy Already
Thursday's Royals/Orioles game looked a lot like Tuesday's, with Chris Tillman surrendering six runs and getting pulled after four outs. The difference this time is that the O's fought back with eight unanswered runs off Ian Kennedy and ended up winning 11-6. The Orioles hadn't won a home game where they gave up four in the top of the 1st since September 15, 2009 (vs Rays), and Kennedy was the first Royals pitcher to allow nine runs and three homers after having a four-run lead (at any point).
The Royals' first four batters all reached base, culminating with Salvador Perez's grand slam to give them the 4-0 lead. That was the fifth grand slam in Royals history to be hit by their fourth batter of a game (which of course is the earliest it can happen); the previous one was by Jermaine Dye on April 26, 2000.
As for Tillman, it was a familiar refrain for both him and Orioles fans; he gave up seven runs on three outs in his previous start in Anaheim. Only one other Orioles/Browns pitcher in the live-ball era has had back-to-back starts with six runs and four or fewer outs; that was Zach Britton in 2011, and he had a DL stint in between them (July 8 and 30).
The Orioles' comeback was led by the top two in the order, Mancini and Adam Jones, who each had three hits and three runs scored. The franchise hadn't had its 1- and 2-hitters each do that since Bob Dillinger and Ray Coleman on June 24, 1947, and the last time it happened where both also homered was by Chet Laabs and Johnny Lucadello against the Yankees on September 16, 1940.
Wait, Maybe I Have Three
Aside from the venue being Cleveland and not Baltimore, amazingly Friday's Royals game started much like Thursday's. Kansas City did come up with four runs in the first three innings, but Jason Hammel gave up longballs to Jose Ramirez, Yonder Alonso, and Michael Brantley for a 9-4 deficit in the 4th. Yep, that would be nine earned runs and three homers-- exactly the line that Ian Kennedy posted the day before. Since earned runs were first kept officially in 1912, only one other team has had starters do that in consecutive games. Howard Ehmke and Hooks Dauss pulled it off for Detroit on June 13 and 14, 1921.
However, unlike Thursday's game, it would be Kansas City who would score six unanswered runs and end up winning the game 10-9. Lucas Duda, with three doubles, joined George Brett (1988) and Hal McRae (1974) as the only Royals to do that against Cleveland. It's also worth mentioning that Brantley's homer was a grand slam that knocked Hammel out of the game. He thus became the first Clevelander to hit a grand slam in a loss since... Michael Brantley did it last week against Texas. Only two others have done it twice in a season, Andre Thornton in 1979 and Al Rosen in 1951.
Dangit, Stop Giving Me This Guy
The Royals' pitching woes continued through the weekend, with Jake Junis's 4-run start on Saturday looking like a relative masterpiece (though they still lost). On Sunday it was Danny Duffy's turn to take one for the team, once again posting nine earned runs-- though, showing improvement, only two homers this time. Together with Kennedy and Hammel, it was the first time any team had three starters give up at least nine earned runs in a four-day span since 1951. The Senators did it in three straight games over Memorial Day weekend that year, with Connie Marrero, Sandy Consuegra, and Al Sime pulling it off at Fenway Park.
Yan Gomes and Jose Ramirez each took Duffy deep for a three-run homer and a double, something two Indians teammates hadn't done in the same home game since August 27, 2010. That was also against the Royals (although off different pitchers), by Chris Gimenez and Jayson Nix.
Wish I Had His Rookie
Scooter Gennett had a few respectable seasons in Milwaukee beginning in 2013, but made the league minimum for four years and was eventually waived during spring training last year. The Reds gave him a home and Scooter took to it immediately, famously breaking out with his four-homer game last June. On Thursday he led the Reds to a win at Dodger Stadium with three hits, three RBIs, and an 8th-inning homer for the final run. On Friday he did it again, except change three hits to four (and the homer to the 5th inning). That was after going deep in two games against the Mets earlier in the week, and created Scooter's first career four-game homer streak. But as for Thursday and Friday, Scooter is the first Reds hitter in six years to have three hits, three RBIs, and a home run in back-to-back games. Brandon Phillips did it against Cleveland on June 13 and 14, 2012. But the last to do it where both games were on the road? That's none other than Davey Concepcion in 1979-- and (with an asterisk) on the same dates also (May 10 and 11). The asterisk is that the May 10 game with the Cubs was suspended after nine innings due to a travel curfew and wasn't resumed until July 23. So even though it counts as a continuation of the May 10 game, Concepcion didn't get his third hit until 2½ months later. If you want to avoid the asterisk, the last to do it without disturbing the time-space continuum is Johnny Bench at the Astrodome, May 30 and 31, 1972.
Special Double Card
Aaron Nola and Vince Velasquez of the Phillies aren't blipping anyone's radar of "big stars", and you can credit the San Francisco offense for much of this, but they combined to strike out 24 Giants as Philadelphia swept the four-game series. Nola's outing on Tuesday was just the second time in the live-ball era that a Phillies pitcher had fanned a dozen Giants and allowed no more than one run. The other is that rookie card you wish you had-- Steve Carlton on April 25, 1972 (Carlton gave up a leadoff single in that game for the only hit). On Thursday Velasquez also had two hits at the plate, the first Phillie to do that and have a dozen strikeouts since Cliff Lee in 2013. But the combination was the first time since at least 1907 (probably ever) that two Phillies pitchers have each recorded a dozen strikeouts in the same series.
Incidentally, the opener of that series on Monday ended with an 11-0 shutout in which four different Phillies hit a multi-run homer. That latter part hadn't happened since Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, Jimmy Rollins, and Raul Ibañez did it against the Cardinals on July 26, 2009. And the 11-0 score matched the largest home shutout in Phillies history against the Giants; the other such game was played on May 12, 1899.
Fabulous Feats
Last week we could have issued a special commemorative "milestone" card to acknowledge Albert Pujols' 3000th hit. In lieu of that we're going to throw in a bonus action card of George Springer, who on Monday became the first player-- for any team, including the A's-- to have a six-hit game at Oakland Coliseum. On the obverse we'll dig up some old photos of Hall of Famer Joe Morgan, because he owns the only other six-hit game in Astros history. That came July 8, 1965, in Milwaukee (the Braves' final year there), and took 12 innings. Springer also scored four runs and drove in three, becoming just the sixth leadoff batter ever with that line. Charlie Blackmon, whose six-hitter during the first week of the 2014 season comes up at least once a month in these pages, had the last one; Ian Kinsler (2009) and Willie Harris (2007) also did it; and the first two were both White Sox (Lance Johnson in 1995 and Rip Radcliff in 1936).
You could also double up Springer's card with Andrew McCutchen's six-hit game on the other side of the Bay on April 7. Not only is it the first time there have been two such games in the Bay Area in the same season, but there had only been two total in the previous 60 seasons of baseball in northern California. Rondell White of the Expos (1995) and Jose Cardenal of the Cubs (1976) had the others, both at Candlestick Park.
All-Stars
So about that Charlie Blackmon game coming up all the time... well, here's the May edition.
Francisco Lindor of the Indians, runner-up in 2015's Rookie Of The Year voting and who will almost certainly make his third All-Star Game this summer, was a one-man wrecking crew in Saturday's win over the Royals (in which, as mentioned earlier, Jacob Junis "only" gave up four runs). Lindor led off the game with a double, scored three pitches later, homered in his own right in the 3rd, led off the 6th with another double-- scoring four pitches later this time-- homered again in the 7th, and then was stranded on deck to end the game. Count 'em, that's four extra-base hits and four runs scored, the first Cleveland leadoff batter to do that in (again, at least) the live-ball era. Only six other Indians hitters have ever done it, the last being Kelly Shoppach on July 30, 2008, and the others being Manny Ramirez (1999), Joe Carter (1986), Rocky Colavito (1959), Bobby Avila (1951), and Pat Seerey (1945).
Toss in the two runs Lindor drove in, and since RBI became an official stat in 1920, Lindor is just the ninth leadoff batter ever to post that line. The previous one? There's your Charlie Blackmon six-hitter (April 4, 2014).
On Sunday Lindor collected three more hits and got plunked once by the Danny Duffy Express mentioned earlier. Although he had only one extra-base hit, it did mean he reached base four times again, something no Cleveland leadoff batter had done in consecutive games in exactly three years. Jason Kipnis did it May 12 and 13 of 2015 against the "Cards".
Intermission
Part of the original thought for this post was a collection of things those "Cards" did this week. Then they didn't really do anything interesting and we folded. They did, however, finish Tuesday's game with a Jose Martinez home run and a Francisco Peña single as their only offense... while also committing three defensive miscues. That gives them the first "1-2-3" linescore in the majors since the Reds did it at Wrigley on July 9, 2008. And that was so long ago it even predates the Britney Spears song.
The Rare Misprint
Chicago is famous for its "L" (or "el" for "elevated", depending on whose style you go with), so it's somewhat appropriate that both Chicago teams have catchers with "L" issues. Willson Contreras-- who has two L's in his first name instead of the common spelling with one-- celebrates his 26th birthday on the day of this post, and he made the most of his last few days of being 25. On Wednesday he legged out two triples and a double in the Cubs' 13-4 beatdown of the Marlins, the first Cub to post that line since Billy Williams against the Cardinals on June 29, 1969. No Cubs catcher had run that far (we're counting homers as more of a "jog" here) around the bases since Hall of Famer Gabby Hartnett did that against the Cardinals on May 9, 1936... 82 years to the day before Contreras's game. The last Cubs catcher to just have the two triples was Steve Swisher on August 11, 1976.
Contreras came back on Friday with his best Francisco Lindor impression, capping a 5-run 1st inning with his second career grand slam, and then tacking on an automatic double, a 6th-inning solo homer, and another two-run double in the 7th to finish the Cubs' 11-2 win. That's four extra-base hits and a whopping seven runs batted in. (The automatic double (commonly referred to as a "ground rule" even though it's not) would have been an eighth had the runner not been forced to return to third on the dead ball.) Only one other player in Cubs history had recorded 4 XBH and 7 RBI in a game, and it was another catcher, George Mitterwald against the Pirates on April 17, 1974. He became the first Cub with back-to-back 3-XBH games since Billy Williams also did that later in the 1969 season (September 8 and 10). And even the four hits (never mind the extra-base part) and seven driven in hadn't been done at Wrigley since Andre Dawson against the Astros on June 2, 1987.
On Saturday he cooled off just a bit, only posting a home run and two singles, but still driving in three. That was a back-to-back first (3 H, 1 HR, 3 RBI) since Sammy Sosa did it on August 10 and 11, 2002. Contreras also became the first Cub with a three-game streak where he had three hits, at least one of which was for extra bases, at least one run scored, and at least one RBI, since Mark Grace in August 1998 (and two of his games were at Coors).
Naturally, on Sunday, his actual birthday, Contreras went 0-for-3 with a walk. It's no fun getting old.
Meanwhile, across town, Welington Castillo-- who has only one "L" instead of the usual two, and who used to be a Cub, further confusing things-- had two homers and three runs batted in on Tuesday against the Pirates. Castillo did that in September 2013 during his Cubs days, and joins George Bell, Jay Johnstone, Vance Law, Ron Santo, Sammy Sosa, and Geovany Soto on a list of seven players to have such a game for both teams. (Soto, of course, is the only other catcher on the list.)
Award Winner
Sparky Lyle, who won the 1977 AL Cy Young while helping the Yankees to a World Series title, was until recently a manager in the indie-ball league near us (not with our friends the Long Island Ducks, but the same league). But imagine our surprise when he popped up as the answer to two different notes this week.
The Yankees, of course, ended their remarkable stretch of 17 wins in 18 games, with the finishing blow to the streak being dealt by Boston's J.D. Martinez, who started the 8th inning on Thursday with a solo homer that would hold up for a 5-4 win. That, however, came on the heels of a 4-run Yankee 7th that made us think they were up to their old comeback tricks again. They hadn't scored at all off starter Eduardo Rodriguez, who joined Josh Beckett (2009) and Ray Culp (1968) as the only Red Sox starters to hold the Yankees scoreless on ≤ 1 hit over any number of innings. But Martinez's blast was the first time the Red Sox had homered to lead off an inning numbered 8 or higher, after the Yankees had just tied the game in the prior inning, since April 8, 1973. Holding a 3-2 lead after 8, Felipe Alou scored on an error in the 9th to tie it, but then Orlando Cepeda homered off Sparky Lyle as the first batter of the 9th for the walkoff.
Sparky, however, was one of those rare players who was traded to the Yankees from the Red Sox, being dealt during spring training in 1972 for backup infielder Danny Cater and minor-leaguer Mario Guerrero, who actually made his MLB debut in that game of April 8, 1973, and singled off Lyle in the process. (That would remain the last trade between the two rivals until the Don Baylor deal in 1986.) And while playing for Boston, Sparky was on the opposite end of our next note.
The finale of that Yankees 17-in-18 streak was made possible by Brett Gardner's 8th-inning triple on Wednesday (just the third three-bagger ever allowed by Craig Kimbrel). It turned a 6-5 deficit into a 7-6 lead, and was the first such triple for the Yankees since Johnny Damon hit one in Philadelphia on June 20, 2006. But the last Yankee with an 8th-or-later triple against Boston to change a deficit into a lead? That's off the bat of Roy White, but the arm of Sparky Lyle, on June 21, 1969.
That triple was Gardner's third hit of the game, and the other two times he was content to stop at second. Since the current version of Yankee Stadium opened in 2009, only one other player-- for any team-- has recorded a triple and two doubles in the same game there... and it's Brett Gardner. That happened June 12, 2011, against the Indians, and since the move across the Harlem River in 1923, only one other player has ever had two such games in the Bronx. Third baseman Red Rolfe recorded them in June 1936 and June 1939.
Gardner's triple was followed by (of course) an Aaron Judge home run for the final 9-6 margin. That meant the top two batters in the Yankee order each collected three hits, three runs scored, and two RBIs. And that hadn't happened in the same game since Hank Bauer and Jerry Coleman did it in a 20-6 win in Baltimore on August 14, 1955.
Legends Of The Game
You don't necessarily have to be a baseball fan to know the story of Honus Wagner and why his baseball cards are so rare. (In the early 1900s cards were distributed with cigarette packs, not sold by themselves, and Wagner-- while not totally anti-tobacco as is commonly thought-- demanded that he not be included.) So it was a fun find this week (and sort of the inspiration for the theme) that Corey Dickerson of the Pirates pulled off something so rare that Wagner was the last to do it.
Admittedly this is largely a quirk of scheduling, since interleague play (other than in the World Series) didn't exist until the mid-1990s. But Dickerson collected four hits in Tuesday's game with the White Sox. That's all. Just your standard average four-hit game. One of them was a double. Meh. Except the Pirates and White Sox don't play all that often, and Pittsburgh had never had a four-hit game at either incarnation of Comiskey Park (never even played a game at the old one). In fact, Tuesday's game was the first time the Pirates had ever scored 10 runs there without hitting a home run. But even though the White Sox are now commonly referred to as the South Siders, fans of stadium history will know that before moving to Weeghman Park (now Wrigley Field) in 1916, the Cubs played at a field called the West Side Grounds, which is now the site of the UIC Medical Center. It's six blocks south of Madison which is the zero line. And the Pirates did play the Cubs for all those years. So the last Pittsburgh batter with a four-hit game on the "South Side" of Chicago? Yep, it's Honus Wagner, in the team's final visit to the West Side Grounds on September 5, 1915.
Special bonus card, and one you might put in your bicycle spokes only to regret it later, to Colin Moran, who on Wednesday became just the second Pirate ever to hit a go-ahead homer against the White Sox in the 9th inning (or later). Freddy Sanchez walked off against them at PNC Park on June 29, 2006.
Braves Future Stars
Ronald Acuña and Ozzie Albies are held up as two of the best young stars in the league (at least for now), and being on a Braves team that's finished 71 games under .500 over the past three years doesn't hurt. But they each had a notable game this week, and in unusual fashion, it wasn't the same game.
Acuña hit a solo home run in the 3rd inning at Tropicana Field on Tuesday to open the scoring in this week's interleague series. Six innings later, it would turn out Acuña also closed the scoring; that home run would stand up for a 1-0 victory. The Braves hadn't won a 1-0 game via solo homer since Evan Gattis hit one against the Marlins on August 31, 2014. They'd only done it once before in an interleague game-- and you might be old enough to remember that one. It was David Justice's World Series clincher in 1995 Game 6.
Acuña is also the youngest player whose solo homer was responsible for a 1-0 team victory since 19-year-old Phil Cavarretta did it for the Cubs at Sportsman's Park in St Louis on September 25, 1935.
By Thursday the Braves had headed across Alligator Alley and beat up on the Marlins 9-2 thanks to a 7-run 6th inning that included an Albies grand slam. Going all the way back to the start of the Braves franchise in 1876, only one player younger than Albies has hit a slam for them, and like most things Braves- and age-related, the answer is Andruw Jones. That happened at Fenway Park on August 31, 1997.
Freddie Freeman also had five hits in the Thursday win, but the only time he scored was when he also homered in that big 6th inning. The last Braves batter with a five-hit game that included a homer, but who only scored that one run (i.e., got stranded or retired on the other four trips around), was Mark Kotsay against the Cubs on August 14, 2008.
And Sean Newcomb put together two tremendous starts this week, his first one on Tuesday overshadowed by the yin and yang that were Paxton and Bundy. After seven innings of two-hit ball against the Mets on May 2, Newcomb throw six more innings of two-hit ball at Tropicana Field on Tuesday, and then one-hit the Marlins for six innings on Sunday. He thus became the first Braves pitcher in (at least) the live-ball era to throw 6+ scoreless innings with ≤ 2 hits in three consecutive outings. The last to do it twice in a row was Greg Maddux in 1999.
Bottom Of The Bag
⚾ Eric Lauer, Friday: First Padres pitcher to allow four homers in a game at Petco. Last at Qualcomm was Brett Tomko vs Cubs, May 2, 2002.
⚾ Carlos Carrasco, Wednesday: First American League pitcher in DH era to throw a complete game with 14 K and have an RBI on offense. Previous was Nolan Ryan vs Rangers, July 27, 1972.
⚾ Lucas Giolito, Sunday: Second pitcher in live-ball era (and the definition of an SB changed a lot before that) to allow five stolen bases and uncork three wild pitches. Other was Nolan Ryan vs Reds, October 1, 1982.
⚾ Josh Donaldson & Justin Smoak, Friday: First Jays teammates ever to strike out four times each in a win.
⚾ Charlie Morton, Saturday: With Gerrit Cole and Justin Verlander, first time three Astros pitchers have had a 14-K game in same season. Team already has 12 double-digit-strikeout games, halfway to team record of 24 set in 1969.
⚾ Brent Suter, Tuesday: First relief pitcher (for any team) to homer against the Indians in the DH era. Previous was Spaceman Bill Lee for the Red Sox, September 11, 1972.
⚾ Brent Suter, Saturday: Third pitcher in Brewers history to have a homer and a double (either order) in back-to-back games. CC Sabathia did it in July 2008, and Yovani Gallardo had three such sets.
⚾ Carlos Santana, Wednesday: First Phillie with 5 RBI on 0 homers, 0 triples, and ≤ 1 double (no limit on singles) since Delmon Young at Dodger Stadium, June 28, 2013. First to do it at home since George Vukovich vs Padres, May 6, 1982.
⚾ Justin Bour, Sunday: Hit Marlins' third pinch-hit homer this season; Bour has all of them. Only other Marlins with three in a season: Wes Helms 2006, Preston Wilson 1999.
⚾ Nick Williams, Sunday: Hit Phillies' second pinch-hit homer this season; Williams has both of them and both have put team ahead. Last Phillie with two go-ahead pinch-hit homers in a season: Tony Longmire 1995.
⚾ Cole Hamels, Friday : Second starter in Rangers/Sens history to work at least 4 innings and allow more hit batters than actual hits. Ferguson Jenkins in a CG-2 vs OAK, Apr 22 1975.
⚾ Mike Trout, Saturday: First Angels batter to draw four walks in a game since... Mike Trout, May 1 vs Orioles. Only others to do it twice in a season are Chris Iannetta in 2013 and Fred Lynn in 1984.
Did You Know?
As the saying goes, Mets gonna Met.
Their actual submitted batting order on Wednesday started Nimmo-Cabrera-Flores-Bruce-Gonzalez. Brandon Nimmo struck out on three pitches, no big deal. Wilmer Flores grabs a bat and strikes out on three pitches, no big deal. Asdrubal Cabrera doubles off the wall and the Reds finally say, heyyy, wait a minute here.
So who's out for missing his turn? The Reds actually played this smartly, because in a way it's both Cabrera and Jay Bruce. There are three potential spots where they could have intervened: If it was noticed (most likely by the Mets) while Flores was batting, he can just be pulled back, and Cabrera finishes the at-bat correctly with whatever the inherited count is. If the Reds had appealed after Flores struck out, but before a pitch to Cabrera, then yes, Cabrera would have been out for missing his turn, but Flores would get to bat again since it now really is his turn.
Under rule 6.03(b)(5), the pitch to Cabrera (even though it shouldn't have been Cabrera) legalizes Flores's improper at-bat. So his strikeout stands and Cabrera's original number-two spot is just skipped. Two down.
But now, since Cabrera doubled, and we haven't thrown another pitch yet, hold everything. Under 6.03(b)(7), once Flores was established as the "correct" previous batter, then the next one up should be Jay Bruce. So when the appeal is made after the double, it's actually Bruce who gets called out for missing his turn and thus ends the inning. (Under 9.09(b)(6), this putout goes as a 2-unassisted since there have to be 27 outs accounted for.)
So who leads off the 2nd inning? Back to 6.03 again, since Bruce was called out for missing his turn, and another pitch was not thrown (which would legitimize yet another improper batter), the order is now allowed to "reset". Bruce is out to end the 1st, and the order picks up after his spot, with Adrian Gonzalez (who legitimately singled).
And of course the Mets ended up losing that game on a walkoff. Because, well, Mets gonna Met.
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