Your local Talking Head News Person has probably spent the last few days telling you that it's hot outside. (Also, actually going outside would tell you this.) And once again it is that week of the mid-summer where the numbers on the time-and-temperature board aren't the only ones rising.
High Heat
Seems like every week some team reads our post on Mondays and says, hey, that's a good idea, we should try that. This week's winner was the Giants, who had an early wakeup call thanks to a rainout back on May 8 that necessitated a Monday doubleheader at Coors Field. Seems like they got enough sleep, though. After last weekend saw six 7-run innings in just four days, and a couple notes about the Giants going the longest of any team without one, well, surprise. Back-to-back homers from Brandon Crawford and Mike Yastrzemski in the 1st made it a 5-0 lead, and they finally got over the hump with 7 hits in the 3rd to knock German Marquez out of the game and post that first "7" since June 4, 2018, against Arizona. They hadn't had a 7-run frame in a road game since June 21, 2016, in Pittsburgh, and only the White Sox have gone longer without doing that.
Crawford collected another homer in the 6th and polished off the most lopsided game of the week with another 2-run single in the 9th for a final of 19-2. The Giants hadn't scored 19+ in a game since beating the Dodgers on September 14, 2013, and the Rockies hadn't allowed it in over a decade. And the last time they did it... wasn't at Coors Field. The Phillies piled up 20 runs against them at Citizens Bank Park on May 26, 2008.
Crawford's 5 hits and 8 RBI made him just the 23rd player in major-league history to officially post that line (counting RBI only since 1920), and the previous person to do it... is the one who gave up those last two runs in the 9th. Mark Reynolds, then with the Nationals, did it against Miami on July 7 of last season, and then on Monday joined Todd Zeile (2002) and Brent Mayne (2000) as the only Rockies position players ever to pitch in a game. The only other Giants batter with a 5-hit, 8-RBI line was Orlando Cepeda against the Cubs in a 19-3 win on July 4, 1961.
Yastrzemski ended up with 4 hits, 4 runs scored, and 3 RBIs, harkening back to that 2013 Dodgers game when Brandon Belt was the last Giants batter to do that. Between him, B-Craw, Alex Dickerson, and Kevin Pillar, they were the first quarter of Giants batters to have multiple extra-base hits in the same game since Jo-Jo Moore, Babe Young, Ken O'Dea, and Mel Ott did it against the Cubs on August 25, 1940. And as for Marquez, he's just the third starter in Rockies history to give up 11 earned runs and not make it out of the 3rd inning; Chris Rusin (2015 vs Mets) and Bryan Rekar (1996 vs Expos) also did it, both at Coors.
One Giant Walkoff For Mankind
(That's your required moon-landing-anniversary reference since we're writing this part on Saturday.)
Later in the week it wasn't the number of runs that was increasing for the Giants, it was the number of innings. It started slowly, with a 10-inning win on Tuesday that featured a 4-run extra frame made possible by two walks, three straight singles, and an error. There was no Big Moment such as they had the previous Friday when Buster Posey hit a 10th-inning grand slam. However, those two, combined with a 6-run outburst on June 4 at Citi Field, marked the first season where the Giants had three extra innings of 4 runs or more since 1998.
Tuesday's 10th inning was only made possible by Ian Desmond's tying homer with 1 out in the 9th, the first such homer (to tie, not go ahead) for the Rockies in the 9th since Corey Dickerson hit one in San Francisco in the final game of the 2015 season. The Rockies had gone the longest of any team without hitting one, by over a year. And Mike Yastrzemski finished with 3 hits and 3 RBI, which might look familiar from the section above. Because of the day/night doubleheader on Monday, we can't say he did it in consecutive games, but he did do it on consecutive days, which no Giant had since Pablo Sandoval against the Reds on August 23 and 24, 2010. And Yaz was the first Giants batter to do it while homering on both days since Barry Bonds, May 24-25 of 2000 against the Expos.
But back to Frisco we go for a weekend series against everyone's favorite juggernaut, the Mets. Who managed to turn a leadoff double by Jeff McNeil into a 1-0 lead, give that up on a 4th-inning sacrifice fly... and then we wait. The Giants waste a leadoff triple from Yaz in the 7th. The Mets get Robinson Cano to third with nobody out in the 10th... and then strike out three times. To be fair, most of the innings at least went 1-2-3 so we're not just wasting a lot of time and baserunners, but still, who knows if either of these teams will ever score again. Pete Alonso, who just missed a homer in the 13th, finally leads off the 16th with the third-latest dinger in a road game in Mets history. Travis d'Arnaud also began the 16th with one in Miami on April 13, 2017; the other was by Del Unser in the 17th in St Louis on April 19, 1976. The only other homer the Giants had allowed in the 16th or later since moving to San Francisco was to Doug Clarey of the Cardinals, off Mike Caldwell on April 28, 1976. Chris Mazza, who entered in the 15th and threw just 9 pitches, should be just fine to go another inning. Heh.
Alex Dickerson leadoff double. Brandon Crawford game-tying double, the first one the Giants have hit in extra innings of a home game (to tie, not walk off) since Greg Litton did it against the Reds on September 13, 1989. Mound visit. ("Yeah, everything's fine.") Donovan Solano walkoff single, their latest single by inning since Bob Brenly knocked in pitcher Greg Minton against the Dodgers on September 28, 1986. It was the first time the Giants had ever walked off against the Mets in the 16th or later, the previous record being Jim Davenport's 15th-inning homer on May 16, 1964.
And remember the Giants' 18th-inning walkoff back on April 12 against the Rockies? No, of course you don't, because you were asleep. It happened at 12:50 in the morning when a five-man infield still wasn't enough because Chris Iannetta was off the plate. The Giants have never before had two walkoffs in the same season in the 16th or later; the last time they even had two 16-inning victories was 1920. And as for the Mets scoring a run in the 16th but still losing, they managed to do that earlier this year too, on May 4 at Milwaukee when they traded 1-for-2 in the 18th. In their previous 57 seasons, how many times had the Mets pulled that off? Yeah, once-- August 10, 1992, against the Pirates.
Drop It Like It's Hot
So on to Friday, and did we mention it feels like neither of these teams will ever score again? That game, while it did feature leadoff singles by both teams (no-hitter-watch thanks you), didn't have a single half-inning with more than four batters until the bottom of the 9th, and even that was caused by a pair of walks. It's finally the bottom of the 10th when the Mets defense decides it has better things to do on a Friday night in San Francisco than play 16 more innings. We're guessing Dominic Smith and Amed Rosario didn't say "whoever catches it is buying", but of course neither one caught it and Alex Dickerson beat a rushed-and-nowhere-close relay throw for a 1-0 walkoff. The Giants had never had any 1-0 walkoff win against the Mets, and hadn't had one in extras since Melky Cabrera singled in Brandon Belt against the Phillies on April 18, 2012. The Mets' last "error-off" of any type came on May 18, 2010, in Atlanta, oddly also involving Melky Cabrera. His single, plus a wayward throw by David Wright, scored the walkoff run from second for the Braves. And the Mets hadn't lost a 1-0 game via extra-inning walkoff since the Cardinals beat them on September 15, 1986. That's when Roger McDowell issued a bases-loaded walk to Curt Ford in the 13th, scoring Willie McGee. (That season still turned out okay for the Mets.)
Neither Tyler Beede nor Jacob deGrom got rewarded for participating in this dirge; Beede threw 8 scoreless innings and allowed 3 hits, the first Giants pitcher to do without getting a win since Matt Cain hooked up with Cliff Lee in a similar scoreless tie on April 18, 2012. And it's just another day at the office for deGrom, who struck out 10 more batters and still didn't get a win. Including the postseason, it's the 20th time he's done that, finally tying Tom Seaver for the Mets' all-time "record" at such a thing.
Hot To Trot
We're not sure if it's the Giants or the Mets that just love to keep giving us more material, but just when we thought this section was done, along comes another snoozefest on Sunday. Michael Conforto did send a ball into McCovey Cove, and Amed Rosario followed with another homer before Conner Menez settled into his MLB debut. Menez would allow only one other hit, becoming the first Giants pitcher to allow no more than 3 hits and strike out at least 6 in his debut since Juan Marichal did it in 1960.
But of course, here we go again with neither team being able to score after Buster Posey and another newbie, Zach Green, both double in the 4th. And this one didn't have any five-batter inning after that; the only two runners to even get to second did so on an error and a sac bunt. Finally in the 12th "Yaz" decides he's had enough of this. The Giants' ballpark is a very nice place, but they've spent plenty of time there in the last four days. Doink, walkoff solo homer against Robert Gsellman for the Giants' third extra-inning walkoff of the weekend. They hadn't won three walkoffs in a series, and/or in four days, since beating the Braves in August 2003, and the Mets hadn't been on the wrong end of same since September 2000 against the Cardinals. But the last time the Giants had three extra-inning walkoffs in a four-day span was July 27 through 29, 1916, when they won three straight against the Reds and Pirates.
As for Mike Yastrzemski, he hit just the second walkoff homer for the Giants in the 12th or later against the Mets. You might remember the other one; it was Jim Davenport's 1964 shot that had been the Giants' latest walkoff anything against the Mets until Thursday. And it was the first walkoff homer in the 12th or later of Mike's career. Care to guess how many his grandfather had in his 23 seasons? Yep, one-- on September 14, 1965, against Cleveland.
-Two Hot
Now, true, the Giants may have started the week by dropping 19 on the Rockies on Monday, but never to be outdone, their NL West rival Dodgers played a night game in Philadelphia a few hours later and proved almost equally prolific. Unlike the Giants, they hung three 0's to start the game but then got six hits, a walk, and a double-steal to push across 6 runs in the 4th. Cody Bellinger and Max Muncy added back-to-back homers in the 7th before another big frame in the 8th drove the final score to 16-2. The last time the Dodgers had scored 16 runs in Philadelphia was an identical 16-2 score against the Phillies... but not even at the Vet. It was at Shibe Park on May 24, 1953. Bellinger, who also homered in the 5th, was the first player in Dodgers history to have a 4-hit, 4-runs-scored, 2-homer game in Philly.
The game's most interesting line, however, belonged to Austin Barnes, who was the front end of that double steal in the 4th and thus became the first Dodgers catcher credited with a steal of home since Paul Lo Duca in San Francisco on June 24, 2004. Unfortunately he also got charged with a catcher's interference an inning earlier when Rhys Hoskins was at the plate; the only other known Dodgers catcher with a CI on defense and a stolen base on offense is Yasmani Grandal, who did it on May 28 of last season. And Barnes drove in Bellinger with a sac fly in the 8th for run number 14; since sac flies were split off in 1954, no catcher for any team has had the unique combo of a sac fly, a steal, and a CI error on defense in the same game.
Between the two NL West combatants, Monday was the first day there was a pair of "X-to-2" scores, where X was 16 or more, since May 20, 1994, when the Twins dropped 21 on the Red Sox and the Mariners won 19-2 over Texas.
It's A Dry Heat
And, sure, it was neat when the Giants opened the game 5-0-7 in that escapade on Monday, but yet another NL West team saw that and said, hold my Coors. Two days later, the Diamondbacks were in Arlington and not only put up 7 and 5 in the first two innings, they added 2 more to reach 14 runs by the end of the 3rd for just the second time in team history. The other such game was September 14, 1998, against those same Giants (actually different Giants since it was 21 years ago), and the numbers were the same, just in a different order (2-5-7). No team in the majors had gotten to 14 by the 3rd since the Yankees did it, also in Arlington, on July 28, 2015. Jesse Chavez gave up all 7 of those runs in the 1st and got pulled before it ended, the first Rangers pitcher with that dubious line since Pedro Astacio on May 6, 2005.
Eduardo Escobar had the eye-popping stat line in this one with 2 homers and 5 driven in. Only one other player in team history had done that in an American League park, Steve Finley at Yankee Stadium on June 12, 2002. Escobar also had a 2-HR, 5-RBI game in Philadelphia back on June 10, the sixth player in D'backs history to do it twice on the road in one season. Finley (1999) is one of those also, along with Luis Gonzalez (2001), Adam LaRoche (2010), Paul Goldschmidt (2017), and Jake Lamb (2017).
Kevin Cron came in just behind Escobar with a homer and 4 RBIs of his own, including a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch for that 14th run. They are the third pair of D'backs teammates to record a homer and 4 RBIs in a road game; Chris Young and Miguel Montero did it in Houston on August 16, 2008, while David Dellucci and Andy Fox were the first, July 4, 1999, at St Louis. Carson Kelly also got in on the act; Torey Lovullo took advantage of the DH in the American League park and batted the catcher 9th. Kelly responded with a homer and 3 runs scored, and if we told you only one other number-9 batter in D'backs history had done that, your first guess is probably right. Micah Owings in his 2-homer game in Atlanta on August 18, 2007 (he also doubled and scored in the 2nd).
And Wednesday's eventual final of 19-4 was actually the second such game in the majors this season; the one NL West team we haven't mentioned yet, the Padres, dropped that at Rogers Centre in Toronto on May 25. The last time there were two of that exact score in a season... was 1896.
Normally we object strenuously to baseball-related waves, particularly the kind that means the natives are bored and just want something to happen. (Pace of play! Someone needs to study the correlation between that and the number of waves that break out.) Anyhoo, among all the songs that have heat-related references in the title, it's hard to beat this Motown standard. Intermission!
Throwing Heat
Micah Owings is never a bad segue into the topic of #PitchersWhoRake. Hi, Stephen Strasburg. Now granted, the Nationals often show up in posts like this thanks to their ability to hang 15, 17, 18, 25 runs in a game on a regular basis the last couple years. So Thursday's 13-4 win in Atlanta actually wasn't one of their real big outbursts. However, it was the "snowman" 8 in the 3rd inning that was notable, and especially how they got there. Strasburg led off the frame with an otherwise-uninteresting single. Adam Eaton tripled to score him, and then the wheels fell off Braves starter Kyle Wright. Double, walk, wild pitch, walk, bases-loaded walk, double, pitching change. So now we've gone far enough around that Touki Toussaint enters to face Strasburg again with runners on second and third, although there's two outs and the pitcher's batting, what could happen.
Heh. Only the fourth home run of Strasburg's career, the first by a Nationals pitcher this season, and the third one a Nats pitcher has ever hit in Atlanta (A.J. Cole last year and Livan Hernandez in 2010). It's also just the third 3-run homer by a Nationals pitcher; Max Scherzer hit one in Miami in 2017, and Tommy Milone took Dillon Gee of the Mets deep in his MLB debut on September 3, 2011. Having started the inning with that single, Strasburg became the first pitcher for any team to record 5 total bases in an inning since Edwin Jackson of the D'backs did it on April 11, 2010. The 8 runs were the Nationals' most in an inning so far this season; they had a pair of 6's back in June, both against the White Sox.
Oh yeah, Strasburg isn't done. It's only the 3rd inning. So after Brian Dozier walks and Victor Robles singles in the 5th, guess who's up again. Why not another base hit on which Robles manages to score from second to make to 10-1. But count 'em, half of those runs have been driven in by Strasburg, the first pitcher in Nats/Expos franchise history with a 5-RBI game. Madison Bumgarner was the last to do it for any team, but it wasn't in his 2-homer game, it was April 11, 2014, against the Rockies when he had a grand slam and a sac fly. And as for 3 hits and 5 RBIs, well, we've already established no Nationals pitcher had done it. But the last "Washington" hurler to post that line on offense was Pete Appleton against the Red Sox on May 30, 1937. Dozier and Robles would also finish with at least 2 hits, 2 runs scored, and 2 RBI, again marking the first time in Nats/Expos history that their 7-, 8-, and 9-batters had all done that in the same game.
Hot Wings
Saturday's high in Baltimore's Inner Harbor reached 100°, and the Orioles' 7 pm game against the Red Sox still listed a gametime temperature of 97°, their highest in over 7 years (June 29, 2012 vs Cleveland). And sure, we occasionally lament the boring 4-2 game where the "[sponsor here] Star Of The Game" goes 1-for-4 with an RBI double. But when it's this hot, that's the game you want. Swing early, swing often, let's go back inside. And yet somebody always decides they like this mess and want to stay out in it just to see how soon they liquefy. Saturday's winner on that front would be the Red Sox, which probably had to be wrung out multiple times on their way to a seventeen-to-six decision that featured another one of those 8-run innings. This one came after they took a 5-0 lead, including a 3-run homer by Jackie Bradley, but the Orioles answered with 5 of their own off Rick Porcello. Suddenly they were right back in this thing, as long as Richie Martin doesn't commit a throwing error to keep the inning going, and Tom Eshelman doesn't give promptly give up 4 unearned runs. Ya know, "if".
Jimmy Yacabonis was tapped to replace Eshelman, and the Orioles still have a chance as long as he doesn't give up a double to J.D. Martinez, a single, a walk, and another 3-run homer to Jackie Bradley. Again, "if". So in the span of six outs we went from 5-0 to 5-5 to 13-5 and let's tack on five more straight hits in the 5th, such that Yacabonis became the third reliever in Orioles history to give up 7 runs while getting no more than 1 out. Rick Bauer did it in a 15-0 shutout by the White Sox in 2004, and Jesse Orosco took one for the team in a 26-7 game with the Rangers in 1996. Yacabonis was also just the third pitcher in the live-ball era to allow 7+, get 1 out, and throw 2 wild pitches on top of it. Carlos Maldonado of the Royals did it in a 17-0 shutout in 1991, while the Giants' Don Carrithers did it in a start in 1972.
Bradley's 6-RBI game was just the third by a Red Sox batter in Baltimore, joining Shea Hillenbrand in 2003 and Ellis Burks in 1987. It was also the fourth one of Bradley's career; the only Red Sox players with more 6-RBI games are Dwight Evans (5), David Ortiz (6), and of course, Ted Williams (10). Those 8 runs in the 4th made a winner out of Rick Porcello even though he gave up 11 hits and 6 runs of his own; the last Sawx pitcher to get away with that was Tim Wakefield against the Yankees on July 15, 1996. Rafael Devers homered and tripled, the fifth Bostonian to do that at Camden Yards. And on the Orioles side, Anthony Santander collected 4 hits including a homer and triple of his own. Only Aubrey Huff (2007) and Chris Richard (2000) have done that in a loss in an Orioles uniform, and Santander/Devers are the first pair of opponents ever to homer and triple in the same game at Camden Yards. The only time two players did it was on the same team: Wilson Ramos and Danny Espinosa of the Nationals in a 17-5 win on May 20, 2011.
Remember the old adage about saving some runs for tomorrow? Or maybe a hit? Rafael Devers came through with a double off the wall in the 7th inning on Sunday, but that's it. The Sawx had two walks and a hit-by-pitch, but only that one base knock, in losing the series finale 5-0. The other Sox (the White ones), two years ago, were the last team to have 17+ hits in one game and then no more than 1 in the next. But the last time Boston did it? That's 1906, and it's no shocker that it's against the Yankees. They ran up 24 hits on April 30 in a 13-4 win, and then Bill Hogg "had revenge" by 1-hitting them the next day.
Red(s) Hot
So far we've had a bunch of lopsided games where one team blew up the, uh, mercury, as it were, and the other just sort of wilted in the heat. Friday brought us another variety of game, the kind where both teams pump up the numbers and it's all about who blinks last. We're used to "C"-ing these at Coors and Camden and Chase, but they don't happen quite as much in Cincinnati. And it didn't look like Friday's game was anything unusual either when the Reds jumped out to a 7-0 lead against Adam Wainwright. Ryan Lavarnway started the scoring with an RBI double in the 3rd and then finished it with a 3-run homer in the 4th. Ah, but there are five more innings still to play. And the Cardinals would really only need one of them, the top of the 6th which began with Tyler Mahle on the mound but certainly didn't end that way.
Three singles. Sac fly. Another single (7-2). Pitching change. Another sac fly. 2-run double by Paul DeJong. Pitching change. RBI double. Walk. Fielding error to score a seventh run and tie the game. And why not, Jose Martinez 3-run homer to give the Cardinals their first double-digit inning since July 21, 2012, a fairly-famous game here at Kernels because St Louis beat the Cubs 12-0 that day and scored all 12 runs in the top of the 7th. It was the first double-digit inning by any team at GABP since the Reds had one against the Tigers on August 24, 2015. Those 10 runs also got Adam Wainwright-- long since out of the game-- out from under a loss; he became the first Cardinals starter to give up 9 hits, 7 runs, and not lose since... Adam Wainwright against the Angels on May 12, 2016. He's the first Cardinals pitcher to do it twice since Bob Forsch in the late '70s.
Speaking of Paul DeJong and the top of the 7th, however, it would be his 2-run homer to make it 12-7 that would really end up mattering when the Reds got another 2-run dinger from Lavarnway and a bases-loaded single from Jesse Winker with 2 outs in the 9th. That made our score 12-11, but Joey Votto grounded out to end the game, the second time this season (May 3 vs Giants) that the Reds had scored 11 runs and lost. They hadn't done that twice in a season since 1984, and hadn't had both games come at home since 1903. (If you know that was at the regally-named Palace Of The Fans, take a bonus point.)
If you've been counting, you know Lavarnway ended up with 6 RBI out of those 11 runs, and thanks to this pesky "let's bat the pitcher 8th" trend, he became the first player in Reds history with a 6-RBI game out of the 9-hole. He's also the first #9 hitter ever, for any team, to have 6 RBI in a loss. Only one other Cincinnati batter-- any spot in the order-- had posted 3 XBH and 6 RBI in a game they lost; that was Harry Heilmann in Pittsburgh on August 28, 1930. And that #8 batter, which began as pitcher Tyler Mahle, well, he did okay too, recording singles in both the 3rd and 4th when the Reds scored their 7 early runs. No Reds pitcher had collected 2 hits and 2 runs in a loss since Bob Purkey in St Louis on June 5, 1962, and the last to do it at all was one Mike Leake against the Pirates on April 15, 2014.
Shhhh! Hot Mic!
Someone say "Mike Leake"? It was not 100° in Seattle on Friday (although it has actually happened three times), but there was still a 10 and a 0 involved, that being the score by which the Mariners blanked the Angels. As you probably know, however, that wasn't really the story. Leake retires nine straight to start the game, the Angels are in their usual mode-- which worked last Friday-- of throwing Taylor Cole for 2 innings and then bringing in someone new, this time Jaime Barria. After a 1-2-3 4th, the Mariners get a 3-run homer from Daniel Vogelbach and a 2-run single from Tom Murphy to go up 5-0. Meanwhile, much of downtown Seattle is getting hit with a (non-heat-related) power outage which is causing some of the stadium's videoboards to flicker and causing further delay. Anyone remember a game back in May where there was a power outage affecting the stadium and a guy named Mike was throwing a no-hitter? (Fiers, and a 2-hour delay because some of the lights wouldn't come on, if you don't.)
Leake is unfazed. Neither is Vogelbach, who hits another 3-run shot in the 5th, becoming the first Mariner ever to hit two against the Angels in the same game, and the 57th with any 6-RBI game. But Vogey was also the 56th to do it, back on April 7 in Chicago, and the only other Mariners with two such games in a season are Alex Rodriguez (2000) and Mike Blowers (1995). Leake needs all of 8 pitches to get through the 6th, after which J.P. Crawford doubles to make it 10-0. All of that is charged to Barria, making him the first "reliever" in Angels history to give up 10 runs in a game.
History, you say. Remember last Friday? When these same two teams played each other, and Mike Leake started for Seattle, and the Angels put up a 7-run 1st and then threw a no-hitter which they dedicated to Tyler Skaggs. In the 301 recognized no-hitters, there are only four occurrences of a team throwing one and receiving one within a week of each other. And just like the M's and Angels, they come in pairs of games against the same team. The others both happened on back-to-back days, in 1968 when Gaylord Perry no-hit the Cards on September 17, and then Cards starter Ray Washburn no-hit the Giants in return on the 18th. The exact same thing happened the following year between the Astros and Reds (April 30 and May 1). Only twice have there been NHs on consecutive Fridays, and the Mariners were the back end of one of those too. They threw their combined one (started by Kevin Millwood) on June 8, 2012, exactly a week after Johan Santana made Mets history. (The other set was in 1912.)
And let's also not forget that this is a perfect game at this point too. The Mariners (Felix Hernandez) also threw the previous PG, in 2012, and Philip Humber also threw his improbable PG at Safeco Field. The only stadium (at least for the moment) to see three PGs thrown is the old Yankee Stadium, and even that depends on whether you consider it one park or two.
Of course, you know it didn't happen. Luis Rengifo, batter number 25, rolls a solid single into right field out of the reach of Austin Nola. Leake was at least allowed to finish the game (and the shutout), doing so in 98 pitches. That's affectionately called a "Maddux" in baseball circles; no less than 16 times did the great Greg Maddux throw an individual shutout in less than 100 pitches. King Felix also owns the last one of those by a Mariners pitcher, and it was also against the Angels, on August 28, 2006. Seattle's last SHO-1 in a home game was thrown by Jarrod Washburn against Baltimore on July 6, 2009. And while we came dangerously close to trading a 13-0 NH and a 10-0 PG/NH between the same teams a week apart, the Angels did get one more note out of this. Friday was the first time they had been held to 1 hit on offense and also given up 10 runs on defense since June 4, 1986, when a Gary Pettis double in the 8th broke up the no-hitter for the Yankees' Joe Niekro.
Bottom Of The Bag
⚾ Travis d'Arnaud, Monday: First player for any team (including the Yankees) to have 3 homers, including a leadoff to begin the game, at any version of Yankee Stadium.
⚾ Joc Pederson, Saturday: First leadoff homer ever hit by Dodgers against the Marlins. Had been the only National League team (including the Astros) against whom they'd never hit one.
⚾ Francisco Lindor, Wednesday: First Indians batter with a home run and a caught-stealing of home in the same game since Manny Ramirez on July 25, 1998.
⚾ Tigers, Tuesday: First time held to 1 hit in Cleveland since April 24, 1968, by Steve Hargan.
⚾ Marcus Semien, Friday: First A's batter to homer, triple, and double against the Twins/Sens since both teams were in their previous cities. Roger Maris for KC against Washington, August 3, 1958.
⚾ Yairo Muñoz, Sunday: First Cardinals batter to homer and triple in a game in Cincinnati since HOF'er Johnny Mize, July 6, 1939, at Crosley.
⚾ Taylor Rogers, Thursday: Sixth save this year of 6 outs or longer. Most for a Twins pitcher in one season since Rick Aguilera in 1990.
⚾ Jack Flaherty, Tuesday: Second time this year the Cardinals scored 1 run and the RBI was by the pitcher (Michael Wacha, June 28 at SD). Last season with two such games was 1992 by Bob Tewksbury and Rheal Cormier.
⚾ Charlie Blackmon & DJ LeMahieu, Sunday: First game at current Yankee Stadium where both teams led off the game with a homer.
⚾ Blue Jays, Thursday: First time held to 2 hits, both singles, at Fenway Park since Bruce Hurst shut them out on April 10, 1987.
⚾ Jurickson Profar & Mark Canha, Wednesday: Second Oakland teammates ever to have 2 HR in same game vs Mariners. Dave Revering and Tony Armas at the Kingdome, August 5, 1979.
⚾ Bryce Harper, Tuesday: First Phillies batter in (at least) live-ball era to have a multi-run homer and a multi-run double in same game and have one of them be a walkoff.
⚾ Myles Straw, Sun-Mon: First batter in live-ball era (any team) to walk twice and score twice in back-to-back games where he batted 9th in both.
⚾ Todd Frazier, Saturday: Second Mets batter ever to homer and triple in a game in San Francisco. Ron Swoboda at Candlestick, May 22, 1966.
⚾ Rays, Thursday: First team to lead off a road game with back-to-back homers and score only those 2 runs in the game since Thomas Howard & Hal Morris homered for the Reds at Dodger Stadium on September 9, 1996.
⚾ Victor Robles, Friday: First player in Nats/Expos history to hit two tying or go-ahead homers when down to team's final out in the same season (other was April 9 at Philadelphia).
⚾ Miles Mikolas, Monday: First Cardinals pitcher to throw a shutout while allowing at least 8 hits since Matt Morris at Pittsburgh, May 24, 2003.
⚾ Braves, Tuesday: First 12-run loss in Milwaukee since... they were the home team. Dropped a 15-1 to the Giants on June 19, 1953, in their first season after the move from Boston.
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