"Ordinary effort".
It's one of those weird judgement-call phrases that appears in baseball's rules, right up there with "abandoning his effort" or a pitch being "struck at by the batter". (No, for you fans of check-swings, there is no rule about "breaking his wrist" or the bat crossing the plate, it is only a question of intent.) Similarly, while "ordinary effort" does not affect gameplay (yet; see the whole "tanking" discussion from last fall), it is a judgement call by the official scorer when determining whether a play should have been made. Of course, the issue is that what is "ordinary" for one player may not be "ordinary" for another. The bar tends to be raised even as the same player moves up through the minors. Could the shortstop have gotten to that ball? May have to consider his "range factor". So to borrow Potter Stewart's famous phrase, baseball's rule book won't attempt to define it, but we know it when we see it.
Thursday brought us a full slate of day games, no night games in the Pacific Time Zone, and thus, the earliest finish to a non-Sunday of baseball since July of 2018. It also meant a lot of teams and players had to be awake earlier than normal, and let's just say those big orange jugs weren't filled with coffee.
We start in Minneapolis, where the Tigers' bats were awake, but only for long enough to hit the Snooze button and go off again in 10 minutes. They collected a pair of hits in the 1st, but both with 2 outs. There was a leadoff single in the 3rd but then three straight outs. Two more hits in the 4th but again with 2 outs. Another in the 5th. A 1-out single in the 6th but then a double play. Then they stranded the bases loaded in the 9th. All told Detroit collected 11 hits and only 1 run, with that only made possible by a balk. (File balks as an unofficial kind of pitching error; we'll do that later.) It was the first time the Tigers had turned 11 hits into only 1 run since a 3-1 loss to the Mets on August 7, 2016. They'd only had that ratio once before in Minnesota, and it wasn't in Minneapolis. It was in Bloomington on August 14, 1973 (a 12-1 loss).
So not only does "1-11" look strange in a linescore, check out the next number. In the 2nd, Gio Urshela rolls one to Harold Castro that either hits the lip of the grass or a dirt clod and disrupts his throwing motion. The throw bounces away and Urshela ends up on second. Under the "ordinary effort" rule, you could easily have scored an error all the way, given that the throw beat Urshela by at least two steps. But we didn't, and when the next batter Kyle Garlick draws a walk, we have "cleared the error" and the current game state is back where it should be. (For purposes of earned runs, scorers have to operate in two parallel universes, the other reflecting what "would have" happened with error-free play. We like it when they're equal.)
Ah but then we come to the bottom of the 5th. Gilberto Celestino lays down a sacrifice bunt and is safe when he seems to dislodge the ball from Spencer Torkelson's glove. Score another E5. On the very next pitch, Jorge Polanco bunts and this time it's catcher Tucker Barnhart whose throw hits the runner and loads the bases. And then Carlos Correa unloads them. But not without a little help as another Castro-- Willi in left-- fumbles the ball while trying to play it off the wall. That's an E7 being credited with the final run on the play, 3 errors in the inning, and 4 total for the game.
And while it wasn't scored an error, Harold came dangerously close to another one with this gem in the 7th. (We don't have the benefit of seeing Urshela going up the line, but he most likely would have beaten that one either way.)
So that means your Tigers finished the game with 1 run, 11 hits, and 4 officially-charged errors. They hadn't committed four miscues in a game in Minneapolis since July 30, 2006 (they went to St Petersburg the next day and did it again). And they became the first team to post the exact combination of 1-11-4 since the Pirates did it in a Labor Day doubleheader on September 5, 1977.
Put Your Hands Up In The Error
And while Thursday's game didn't have any drama to it, Twins fans no doubt remember how that series started on Tuesday. Remember the old adage about "run right at him"? Well, in the heat of the moment, Tucker Barnhart, um, didn't. Once again you could make a case for the original play being an E9, but regardless, Barnhart chucking the ball into left field allowed both the tying and winning runs to score.
The Twins hadn't won a game via walkoff error when trailing since September 3, 2003, against Anaheim. Shannon Stewart doubled, tying run Dustan Mohr was a dead duck at the plate, so-- long before The Buster Posey Rule-- he did the only thing he could do, barrelling over Bengie Molina, not only jarring the ball loose, but breaking two bones in Molina's wrist and ending his season. Stewart then also scored the game-winner while Molina was rolling around in pain. (Alas, we found only newspaper accounts of this game, no video. We suspect Bengie Molina may have some but will never ever watch it.)
E-Train To The Bronx
You may know the B- and D-trains as two of the subway lines that serve Yankee Stadium. And while those do share a station with the E-train (at 53rd and 7th, for you subway fans), that is a rare double-decker station where there is no interlock between the two sets of tracks. So it would be nearly impossible for an E-train to ever reach the Bronx. But leave it to the Baltimore Orioles.
The 5-train already does go to the Bronx. In fact it splits from the 4 just one stop south of Yankee Stadium. And on Thursday, while the Tigers were busy dropping 4 errors at Target Field, the Orioles went one stop too far and pulled a 5 into the station at 161 and River Avenue.
The 6-train also shares track through Manhattan with the 4- and 5-, and so it's appropriate that E5 and E6 were the scoring decisions of the day. Kelvin Gutierrez booted a ground ball in the 4th, but that E5 would prove to be harmless aside from forcing Bruce Zimmermann to throw a few extra pitches. In the 5th, not so much. Tim Locastro starts the inning with another E5, this one a bad throw to first by Gutierrez. Marwin Gonzalez doubles to score Locastro, who shouldn't be on base anyway. Kyle Higashioka makes an out before the "action" shifts to Jorge Mateo at short. He boots a ground ball off the bat of DJ LeMahieu. And remember our parallel universes? With no errors, the Orioles are out of the inning without a run scoring. That means the rest of this mess is going to be unearned, at least for Zimm. (We'll save the lesson on "team unearned runs" for another day.) Aaron Judge singles. Anthony Rizzo singles. Giancarlo Stanton singles. Bryan Baker finally induces a double play to escape the inning, but not before the Yankees have rallied from 0-2 to 4-2.
Next inning: Walk, wild pitch, infield single off the glove of pitcher Mike Baumann. But, instead of just taking the lump and stopping, Baumann thinks he still has a play at first and does this. Which will also make Joey Gallo's run unearned when the next two batters make outs and then Locastro gets caught stealing second. And if you're counting, the Orioles have now matched the Tigers with their fourth error of Thursday afternoon.
Ah, but the Orioles will not settle for being "just as bad". They've got still got three more innings out there in the field. Locastro is up again to start the 8th and walks. Paul Fry then hits Higashioka with a pitch. And LeMahieu sends another test in the direction of Jorge Mateo, which he fails. Could you argue that Locastro screened him? Sure. But when Aaron Judge bangs the final gavel on this one with a 3-run homer, we have another unearned run and the first 5-error game for the Orioles since all the way back in... *checks notes*... 2018? Yes, it was only August 8 of that season when they did it at Tropicana Field... and won. The last time Baltimore chunked up 5 errors against the Yankees, they were still getting used to being "Baltimore". It was the end of their second season there, in a 5-3 loss on September 5, 1955.
As for all those unearned runs, the last time the Orioles allowed six of those in any game was July 20, 2019, against Boston. That included an inning that should have been over in three batters, but Michael Chavis reached on an error and the floodgates opened for an 8-run frame. They hadn't done it against the Yankees since July 30, 2011.
Now check out LeMahieu's line in this game. He foiled Jorge Mateo twice on errors. But that led to a weird boxscore line where "DJLM" had only 1 hit, 0 walks, 0 hit-by-pitches, but mysteriously scored 3 runs. The only other leadoff batter in Yankees history to pull that off was Harry Niles against the Senators on May 4, 1908. Like his counterpart in 2022, he reached base twice via "fumbles".
And adding to the "what could have been" file, the O's scored 3 runs in the 9th off triple-A callup Ron Marinaccio, making just his fourth MLB appearance. That made our final score 10-5, but if you subtract those 6 unearned runs,... Now, would Marinaccio have even gotten to pitch in a 4-2 game as opposed to a 10-2 game with a much longer leash? Who knows. This is why we play the games and managers (mostly) still "manage". But if you thought the Tigers' 1-11-4 was strange-- and it is-- here come the Orioles with a linescore of 5-14-5. That exact combo has been done only three times in the past 90 seasons-- by the Giants against Brooklyn on July 12, 1938; by the Expos at Shea on July 4, 1980; and then by the Orioles on April 28, 2022. Yes, each of them is 42 years apart. So bookmark this page for sometime in 2064. You heard it here first.
A Change Is In The Error
We've always said, part of the fun of baseball that you start with 81 blank squares on a scoresheet and never know what's going to go in them. A team that commits 5 errors one day, might benefit from someone else's errors just a couple days later. Fast-forward back to Camden Yards on Saturday where the O's are entertaining the Red Sox. And where Nathan Eovaldi is not being a very respectful guest. He's no-hitting the Orioles into the 6th inning, and this would have been flashing "perfect game" alerts if not for-- you guessed it-- an error by Xander Bogaerts in the 2nd.
For a moment we had shades of the "Julio Lugo Game" in 2007. On June 7 of that year, Curt Schilling was pitching a perfect game for the Red Sox-- or would have been, except for a lone error by Lugo in the 5th. And in case you thought one Shannon Stewart reference was enough for this post, he's back. Stewart lined a fastball to right to break up Schilling's NH (and almost-PG) with 2 outs in the 9th... after Schilling famously shook off Jason Varitek's call for a slider.
Cedric Mullins got rid of Saturday's no-hit threat with a double in the 6th. But that would just leave our game knotted at 1 after Mullins doubled again in the 8th and scored. So we head off to Free Runner Land, where the Orioles escape the top of the 10th and then are faced with the platoon threat of Tyler Nevin being the scheduled batter and Ramon Urias being the free runner. They don't seem to like either of those options. So Ryan McKenna will pinch hit and, oh look who it is, Jorge Mateo will go out to second as a pinch runner. The Red Sox don't like that idea, so they immediately walk McKenna to get to Robinson Chirinos.
You may recall that Mateo knows a little something about errors. Turns out, he also knows how to score on them. The last time the Orioles walked off on an error against the Red Sox was August 13, 1961... and it was the exact same play. Arnold Earley was the pitcher trying to get a force at third base on what would have been a sacrifice bunt by Russ Snyder. Frank Malzone was the third baseman over whose head it went.
Meanwhile, the Padres and Pirates met up for a weekend series at PNC Park, with two of the Padres' three games being error-free. So why is it here? Well, because of the one that wasn't. It was 3-3 in the 8th when Manny Machado and Michael Chavis traded 2-run homers. Chavis's bomb was the first tying or go-ahead multi-run shot for the Pirates that late in a home game against the Padres since Gary Redus hit one at Three Rivers on August 26, 1991. But here we are in Extra Innings Land again. Free runner Jorge Alfaro gets bunted over to third, because that's how this works now, and then Trent Grisham singles him home for a 6-5 lead. The Pirates now aren't going to waste time bunting, they'll let Ke'Bryan Hayes rope a single through the hole at short to tie things up.
Bryan Reynolds then shoots one of Luis Garcia's pitches just inside the bag at first. Eric Hosmer gets a glove on it, but that just serves to slow it down and send the ball into no-man's-land down the right-field line. Hayes speeds all the way around and beats the play at the plate. Eventually. This is another play that could easily have been scored either way, but as you hear announcers say every so often, "he'll tell you he should have had it". It goes as a walkoff error, our second of the night, and the first for the Pirates in extra innings since June 20, 2008, when John McDonald of Toronto booted a Jason Michaels grounder with the bases loaded in the 12th. And if you're remembering Baltimore and saying, hey, when's the last time there were two extra-inning "error-off"s in the same day?, well, we're glad you asked. Because we wondered that too. And it was way back on August 14, 1970. On that day the Brewers defeated the Indians on an errant 2-out throw on Mike Hegan's grounder, and Joe Hague of the Cardinals laid down a sac bunt to get Julian Javier from second to third, but the throw went awry and Javier scored the game-winner.
Pitchers have some special things they do. They walk around the mound a lot. They have specific rules about where their hands and feet are allowed to be. Sometimes they sneak pine tar onto their neck. Once in a while they hack up promotional throwback jerseys. So there are some special stats that appear in a pitching line that aren't officially errors. And that's what makes them particularly interesting. We still await the first "Kernels trifecta" of 2022-- a hit batter, a wild pitch, and a balk in the same game. But we've come close.
Remember Luis Garcia from, oh, the last section? Well, before giving up that walkoff error to the Pirates on Saturday, he got summoned for the Padres' series finale with Cincinnati two days prior. He gave up an unearned run when Kyle Farmer reached on (of course) an E6 in the 8th inning. But Farmer only ended up scoring because Garcia uncorked three wild pitches along the way, two of them back-to-back. He's the first pitcher this year to unleash 3 WP in a game, and the first Padres reliever to do it since Donn Roach at Arizona on May 28, 2014.
Walker Buehler could rightfully be called the Dodgers' ace if, y'know, Clayton Kershaw wasn't still hanging around (and breaking the team's all-time strikeout record on Saturday). Buehler threw the first complete game in MLB this season on Monday, and raising the bar by making it a 3-hit shutout with no walks. Somehow, however, he managed to get two-thirds of our trifecta. He hit Seth Beer with a pitch and then immediately wild-pitched him to second. (Hey, if you're gonna pound a Beer, there's a chance things might get wild.) This made Buehler the first Dodgers pitcher to do both of those while also throwing a 3-hit shutout since Don Drysdale against Philadelphia on September 9, 1959.
Dylan Cease didn't quite match Garcia's trio of wild pitches, but he did uncork two of them against the Royals on Wednesday. That contrasted nicely with the rest of his line where he struck out 9 and allowed just 2 runs. The last White Sox pitcher to have 9 K but also 2 WP in a game? Why, that's Dylan Cease, who did it on August 8 of last year over at Wrigley Field. The only others in team history to post that line multiple times are Floyd Bannister and the afore-linked Chris Sale.
Error-Rays-Ing
Josh Fleming is no doubt reading this post going, hey, what about me? In our parallel universe, he'd have been in the clubhouse pounding a beer or slicing up his hand making a sandwich about 20 minutes ago. In the 4th inning on Tuesday, he is confronted with Jesse Winker on second, Eugenio Suarez on first, and 1 out. Abraham Toro appears to ground into a forceout to get Suarez, but the throw takes Brandon Lowe off the bag. E6. Four pitches later, well, this happens. That's Ji-Man Choi spiking an attempted force play at the plate and leading to 2 Mariners runs. FC+E3. If both those plays had been made, the Rays are out of the inning without Seattle scoring.
[Narrator voice: They are not out of the inning.]
Julio Rodriguez double. Fleming hits Dylan Moore with a pitch. Adam Frazier doubles. Ty France singles. There's still only 1 out, but finally Winker and Suarez who started this whole mess strike out and send Fleming to the deli counter. The Mariners scored 7 runs in the inning with all of them unearned. In Rays history they've only had one other pitcher allow 7 runs in a game without a single one being earned; that was Eddie Gaillard at Cleveland on May 7, 1999.
And as for the 7-run inning? That was the first time Seattle had ever done that at Tropicana Field. There's only one remaining American League city in which the M's have never had a 7-run frame, and it's not an old one like Milwaukee. It's not a new one like Houston. It's Detroit (at either stadium).
Just for fun, Fleming got another start on Sunday against the Twins and had flashbacks when Taylor Walls airmailed the first ground ball of the game. After that, however, it was all on him, giving up 5 runs in the 1st with only that one being unearned. The Twins had never before had a 5-run 1st inning at The Trop, and Fleming would depart in the 4th after giving up a total of 6 runs. The last Rays starter to allow 6+ to Minnesota and not finish the 4th was Edwin Jackson, who did it 15 years earlier to the day on May 1, 2007.
In The Error Tonight
(You knew we had to do this. Drum solo!)
Pitchers make other kinds of errors too. A considerable number of those don't end up in the boxscore as "errors". They end up in the boxscore as "home runs". The spicy meatball if you'd like. They're not all mistake pitches; after all, these are supposedly big-league hitters, many of whom are signed for this very purpose. But mistakes were made, especially early on.
Connor Joe began the week for the Rockies by hitting a leadoff homer against the Phillies on Monday. That was just the second longball in Rockies history to start a game in Philadelphia (either stadium). The other was by Charlie Blackmon on May 19, 2019. But recall that Joe also led off last Saturday's game in Detroit with a four-bagger, making him just the second player in Rockies history to hit two of them in a 3-day span. Shocker, that's Charlie Blackmon also, who did it in consecutive games on May 30 and 31, 2016.
But then Randal Grichuk strides to the plate to lead off the 2nd inning on Monday, and wouldn't you know, he goes yard off Kyle Gibson as well. It's the fourth time in Rockies history that they've led off both innings with a dinger, and you won't be surprised to know that half of them involve Charlie Blackmon. He teamed with Raimel Tapia on Apr 20, 2019, and with Ben Paulsen on August 24, 2015. The other combo was Darryl Hamilton and Todd Helton against the Padres on April 12, 1999.
Willy Adames was not the Brewers' leadoff batter for the start of their series in Pittsburgh on Tuesday. Kolten Wong was. Wong didn't homer. Adames did. Twice. Then he doubled. Then he threw on a single. And drove in 7 runs. He's the first Brewers batter ever to hit a 2-run homer as the team's second batter of a game in Pittsburgh. And 4 hits plus 7 RBI in any game? That's only been done twice before in Brewers lore, by Damian Miller (July 2, 2007, also at PNC) and Ted Kubiak (July 18, 1970, at Fenway).
Chad Pinder of the A's wasted no time on Wednesday against the Giants. It took him just six pitches to send a Sam Long offering into the seats in left field for a 1-0 lead. The only other time that the current A's franchise hit a leadoff homer against San Francisco was on June 4, 1999, when Tony Phillips took Chris Brock deep. But then innings went by. The 3rd. The 5th. The 7th. It's still 1-0. And despite a 7th-inning triple and a 9th-inning double, not only does Oakland not score again, but San Francisco doesn't score at all. Darin Ruf pops up to first for the final out, and the A's have pulled off their first-ever 1-0 win from a leadoff homer. And the last time any team did it on the road was May 18, 2013, when Gerardo Parra of the D'backs hit one in Miami.
Tell Me How To Breathe With No Error
Pitchers make errors. Pitchers make plays that aren't technically errors. Pitchers hang "errors" that end up as home runs. If you had to pick a team that is known for unforced errors, the Mets would be on your short list. So Friday night in Queens-- where that E-train does actually end up-- it all finally came together.
Tylor Megill got sent to the hill for the opener of a series with Philadelphia. He walked Kyle Schwarber in the 2nd. He walked Kyle Schwarber again in the 5th. He walked Didi Gregorius in the 5th. What he didn't do was give up a base hit. No, that part is up to Drew Smith. Who walks Bryce Harper in the 6th. And departs in the 7th in favor of Joely Rodriguez. Surely he'll be able to... well, no. The first batter he faces is Kyle Schwarber, who walks yet again and then gets erased on a double play. Howie Rose on Mets radio has already mixed metaphors by declaring it will "take a village" to steer a no-hitter into the garage tonight. And if there's two things you'll find in Queens, it's villages and auto garages.
There are three games in Mets history where they've had a no-hitter broken up in the 9th inning. With credit to Stew Thornley's "Lost In The Ninth" site (linked at right), all three of those were by Tom Seaver. On Friday Edwin Diaz knows his place in history, and he isn't about to disrupt that list. He strikes out the side in the 9th on 13 pitches. And at 10:32 pm on April 29, 2022, the Mets have the first combined no-hitter in team history. Whether it's their first "actual" no-hitter in team history, well, that seems to be a matter of debate. The scoresheets tell us that Johan Santana threw one back on June 1, 2012, and if we'd had video for some of the ones in the 19th century, we'd probably discover some questionable calls in those too. But Friday's 3-0 win goes in the books as the first completed no-hitter of 2022, the second one in Mets history, and the 315th one officially recognized by MLB. The Phillies have been on the wrong end of 20 of those, tied with the Dodgers for the most ever (though that's mostly a function of franchise longevity).
But let's not forget Kyle Schwarber in all of this. He was on deck when J.T. Realmuto struck out to end the game. But that means he played the entire game and went 0-for-0. This is among our favorite statistical quirks here at #Kernels, and sure enough, he is the first player in the majors to do it this season. He's the first Phillies batter to do it since Rhys Hoskins walked thrice and got plunked on March 31, 2019. And the last time it happened in a no-hitter was Justin Verlander's NH for the Tigers on June 12, 2007. He issued 4 walks in that contest against Milwaukee-- 3 of them to Bill Hall.
Bottom Of The Bag
⚾ Andrew McCutchen, Thursday: Became first player to hit a leadoff homer at PNC Park as both a Pirate and a non-Pirate.
⚾ Mets, Monday: First time scoring 0 runs through 8 innings, but then 5+ in the 9th to win, since John Olerud walked off against the Phillies on May 23, 1999.
⚾ Phillips Valdez, Sunday: First Red Sox reliever to give up 4 runs, hit a batter, and commit a balk, since Dick Brodowski against the A's on August 7, 1955.
⚾ Tony Kemp, Friday: Second player in A's history to have a double, a hit-by-pitch, and a sac fly in a loss. Mike Hershberger did it against the Yankees on May 13, 1966.
⚾ Royals, Tuesday: First game where they drew 11 walks and struck out no more than 3 times since May 30, 1986, against Texas.
⚾ George Springer, Saturday: First player in Jays history to hit 2 solo homers in a game the team won by a score of 2-0 or 2-1.
⚾ Diamondbacks, Wednesday: First time in team history scoring 3+ runs on 2 or fewer hits in a game. Had been the last of the 30 active franchises to have never done it (though the Nats haven't done it since the move).
⚾ Jake Cronenworth, Tuesday: First Padres batter to hit a triple and a single in the same inning since Sean Burroughs at Coors Field, July 8, 2005.
⚾ Reiver Sanmartin, Sunday: First Reds starter to give up 6+ hits and 6+ runs without finishing the 1st inning since Eric Milton at Wrigley, September 17, 2006.
⚾ Brewers, Friday: Second home game in team history where they hit 6+ homers (hope Bernie had some energy drinks). Other was April 14, 1979, against the Orioles (won 11-10).
⚾ Taylor Ward, Wednesday: First player for any team to have a grand slam, a triple, and a double in the same game since Chris Taylor of the Dodgers did it in Phoenix on July 15, 2016.
⚾ Kevin Gausman, Tuesday: Second pitcher in Jays history to allow 0 earned runs, 0 walks, strike out 9, and not get a win. Marco Estrada got a no-decision in a 1-0 game with the Rays on June 24, 2015.
⚾ Javier Baez & Austin Meadows, Saturday: First Tigers teammates with 2+ hits and 2+ RBI in the same game at Dodger Stadium since Willie Horton and Al Kaline on June 9, 1965. And yes, that's not against the Dodgers.
⚾ Guardians, Mon-Tue-Thu: Second time in franchise history being held to 1 run on 4 hits three times in the same series. The other was also in the last week of April... 1936, by Joe McCarthy's Yankees.
⚾ Josh Bell/Maikel Franco/Victor Robles, Friday: Second time a trio of Nats/Expos teammates have ever had 4+ hits in the same game. Other group was Andre Dawson, Gary Carter, and Larry Parrish at Atlanta, July 30, 1978.
⚾ Pirates, Wednesday: First game where they had 1 hit but drew 7 walks since June 13, 2003, at Tampa Bay.
⚾ Luis Gonzalez, Monday: Second Giants batter in live-ball era to play all three outfield positions in the same game and also hit a homer. Chili Davis did it against San Diego on September 15, 1987.
⚾ Ha-Seong Kim, Thu-Fri: First Padres batter to have multiple hits and multiple RBI in back-to-back games, batting 9th in both of them.
⚾ Alex Cobb, Sunday: First Giants starter to give up 5+ runs and commit a balk without finishing the 1st inning since Atlee Hammaker against the Mets on August 16, 1988.
⚾ Tucker Barnhart, Friday: First Tigers #9 batter ever to have a multi-hit game at Dodger Stadium (including Angels years).
⚾ James McCann, Tuesday: Third Mets #9 batter ever to hit a 3-hit game in St Louis (where pitchers used to bat prior to the universal DH). Others are pitchers-- Sid Fernandez on September 21, 1989, and Hank Webb on September 13, 1975.
⚾ Yankees, Saturday: First time ever winning a game in Kansas City (including the A's years) without having an RBI base hit at any point in the game (two sac flies and a double play).
⚾ Kyle Farmer, Wednesday: First Reds batter to have 4 doubles in a game since Billy Hatcher against the Cubs on August 21, 1990. First for any team to have 4 doubles in a loss since Jeff Baker of the Rockies on May 30, 2008.
⚾ Phillies, Thursday: First time scoring 7 runs on no more than 4 hits in a game since July 6, 1918, at Cincinnati. They had 14 walks in that game. And they still lost.
⚾ Taylor Ward, Monday: Second leadoff batter in Angels history with 3+ RBI accounting for all the team's runs in a home win. Darin Erstad did it against the Royals on June 21, 2000.
⚾ Tyler O'Neill, Thursday: First player in Cardinals history to hit a sacrifice fly in both the 1st and 2nd innings of the same game.
⚾ Wilmer Flores, Tuesday: Second DH in Giants history to have 4 RBI in a game, joining Stephen Vogt at Boston on September 18, 2019.
⚾ Logan Gilbert, Sunday: Became first pitcher in Mariners history to go 5+ innings and allow no more than 1 run in each of his first 5 games of a season. The pitcher he surpassed who did it 4 times? Why, that's only Randy Johnson.
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