If you're a regular viewer here, you know that the past two weeks have both started with a 1-0 game on Monday afternoon. We like to say teams read about things in our posts and copy each other. Unfortunately there were no afternoon games last Monday. There was a 1-0 game later in the night, but it just meant that we had to wait for the fourth game of the week to see our theme start to emerge.
Au Contreras
Wrigley Field is, of course, the second-oldest ballpark still in continuous use, so it's seen a few things. It does not usually see a Cubs catcher nominated as the Designated Hitter and bat leadoff, but this is the world we live in now. So it was that Willson Contreras greeted Dillon Peters of the Pirates with a double to start Monday's game. Then Ian Happ doubled. And if we told you it's now 1-0 and that would be the only run of the game, then not only would we keep our theme going, but Dillon Peters probably wouldn't want to forget his visit. (Narrator voice: That's not what happened.)
Yan Gomes singles home another run. Jonathan Villar walks and loads the bases. Peters has gotten two outs but has also faced seven batters and gets a quick hook in favor of Bryce Wilson. Let's see how this goes.
Andrelton Simmons, infield single just past third base. Number-9 batter Rafael Ortega works a bases-loaded walk. And now, Willson with two L's, meet Wilson with one L. Because Contreras is already up for the second time in the 1st inning. And Wil(l)son smokes a volleyball into the left-field bleachers for a grand slam and an 8-0 Cubs lead. The scoreboard crew at Wrigley hadn't hung that "8" card in the bottom of the 1st in nearly a quarter-century, since an 8-1 win over the Dodgers on April 18, 1998. No Cubs batter had pounded a 1st-inning slam against the Pirates since George Mitterwald on April 17, 1974. And, because this requires a team to bat around, it was only the 10th grand slam in MLB history (all of it, we checked this) to be hit by a leadoff batter in the 1st inning. George Springer had the previous one in Kansas City on June 24, 2016.
That nice comfy 8-run lead (and also, the fact that they're playing the Pirates) certainly let Wade Miley cruise through the game, tossing seven scoreless innings with his only baserunner coming on a Michael Chavis single in the 5th. No Cubs pitcher had done 7 scoreless on 1 baserunner since Milt Pappas threw his no-hitter on September 2, 1972. And if you'd like to see how things have changed in a half-century, just imagine the outrage today about the check-swing on the final pitch. (And also umpire Bruce Froemming's sideburns.)
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
We don't have much for this, and we don't want to leave Wrigleyville just yet, but we did want to note that Willson's brother William Contreras also hit two homers for the Braves in Miami on Saturday. Although they've "only" been in the same division for 30 seasons, William's feat gets you two squares on your Braves home-run bingo card. He's not only the first catcher in Braves history to have a multi-homer game against the Marlins, he's also the first-ever 8- or 9-batter (of any position) to have a multi-homer game against the Marlins.
Matt Olson also collected his 16th double of the 2022 season in that Braves win on Saturday, the fastest Braves batter to reach that mark (39 games) to start a season since Tommy Holmes did it for Boston in 1944.
But now we head back to the corner of Clark and Addison. Which is rarely a bad place to be, but on Friday you would have preferred to be at the opposite corner, of Waveland and Sheffield. Okay, yes, you would have gotten to help raise the giant "L" flag, which does not represent the extra L in "Willson". But MLB lists the wind for this game as "25 mph, out to center". So you know what's coming.
Patrick Wisdom hits the first one for the Cubs in the 2nd. Josh Rojas and David Peralta answer for Arizona in the 3rd. Jonathan Villar for the Cubs in the 4th. Stop us if you've heard this one, but Josh Rojas and David Peralta both go deep again in the 5th to knock Kyle Hendricks out of the game. Daniel Norris enters for the 6th, and Alek Thomas puts his second pitch onto Waveland. Mychal Givens enters for the 7th, and second pitch ends up on Sheffield-- off the bat of Josh Rojas again. The Cubs trail 9-3 when Christopher Morel and Ildemaro Vargas launch back-to-back jacks in the 7th. And for good measure, Christian Walker puts another one onto Waveland in the 9th. The D'backs end up winning the game 10-6, but let's add this up. Carry the 2, pi-r-squared-something-or-other, oh yeah, that's eleven home runs including three by Rojas. The last time the park saw that many dingers in a game was June 18, 2006, against the Tigers (oddly, it's never had more than 11, and has also never had a game with exactly 10).
Rojas joined Paul Goldschmidt (August 3, 2017) as the only Arizona batters ever to hit 3 homers in a game at Wrigley. And when he and Peralta repeated themselves, they became the second set of D'backs teammates to each hit two in a game there. Luis Gonzalez and Chris Snyder both did it in a 13-6 win on July 31, 2005.
The Diamondbacks were responsible for seven of those taters, another thing they had accomplished only once before in team history. That happened in Philadelphia on June 10, 2019. And no team-- including the Cubs-- had cranked seven in a game at Wrigley since Drew Stubbs chipped in three for the Reds on Independence Day 2010.
That leaves the Cubs with the other four homers in Friday's game, but check out where they came from. Wisdom, who started the barrage, bats 6th. Villar follows him. Morel and Vargas, of back-to-back in the 7th, are the bottom two in the lineup. So the Cubs got homers from their 6-, 7-, 8-, and 9-hitters all in the same game, for the first time since September 2, 2002, in a 17-4 win over Milwaukee. (If that date looks familiar, it's the 30th anniversary of the Milt Pappas no-hitter we linked in the previous section.) And in Cubs history, which does go all the way back to the beginning of the National League in 1876, they'd never before had the bottom four spots in the order all go deep in a game they lost. Raise that "L" flag... but maybe with an asterisk underneath it.
Take It To The Bank
Over in the AL East, the Orioles got to entertain the Yankees four times this week, and that generally never goes well. In Monday's opener, Luis Severino allowed only 1 hit, but it was a solo homer by Anthony Santander. The last Yankees pitcher to throw 6+ innings and allow 1 hit in Baltimore was Don Larsen at Memorial Stadium on September 20, 1958.
The Yankees ended up cruising to a 6-2 win on 3 homers of their own, but Aroldis Chapman was handed the 9th inning with a 5-run lead. He only gave up 1 hit as well-- a solo homer by Anthony Santander. That made him the first O's batter to hit 2 homers in a game where the team scored 2 runs since Adam jones did it against the Nationals on July 12, 2015.
On Tuesday Aaron Judge finally solved the mystery of the expanded left-field wall (which deprived him of a homer in the 1st) by just going the other way. After that 1st-inning double, Judge tacked on a pair of dingers to center, plus a single in the 8th, to record 11 total bases. Only three other Yankees batters have done that in Baltimore, two of them in the same series. Gleyber Torres and Gary Sanchez each did it in April 2019; the first was Danny Tartabull in September 1992. Those homers on Tuesday also gave Judge 14 for the season and made him just the eighth player in Yankees history to have that many by the 36th game of a season. Judge also did it in 2017, and you've probably heard of the others. It's A-Rod (2007), Tino Martinez (1997), Mickey Mantle (1956), and Babe Ruth (3x).
By Thursday the Orioles are just hoping to not get swept. Trailing 5-3 in the 6th, and knowing the Yankees' penchant for late-inning heroics, it seems unlikely. Did the game truly turn on Jorge Mateo getting a catcher's interference call? Probably not... and according to the scoring rules, it can't, because we have no idea what Mateo would have done had his at-bat continued. (This is why his run is unearned, but you also don't assume he would have made an out. Scorers hate this play.) Either way, it was the first CI award to an Orioles batter against the Yankees since Elston Howard was charged with the offense against Moe Drabowsky on May 12, 1967.
The Orioles end up scoring 3 runs to take a 6-5 lead, but as usual, the Yankees are destined to do something that does not involve going gently into their return flight home. Isiah Kiner-Falefa draws a leadoff walk in the 9th and then steals second, but just when Jorge Lopez retires the next two and might save this thing, DJ LeMahieu dumps one into right and ties the game. It was the first time any Yankees batter had hit a game-tying single at Camden Yards when the team was down to its final out. (Gleyber hit a double last year and messed up our note.) The last such single at Memorial was by Jim Leyritz off Gregg Olson on June 8, 1990.
But we still have a bottom of the 9th to play. No free runners yet. Unless you count Austin Hays, who rolls one to third to start the inning and then this happens. After Trey Mancini also reaches, that sets up our friend Anthony Santander to walk it off. That would be the first 3- or 4-run walkoff homer by an Orioles batter against the Yankees since Brooks Robinson hit a slam off Lindy McDaniel on July 7, 1970. They hadn't hit one against any opponent since Manny Machado slammed the Angels on August 18, 2017; the only team in the majors to go longer without such a walkoff is the Reds.
Don't Block The Box
There's a lot of walking in New York. If you're not walking to get to your destination, you're at least walking to the nearest bus or subway stop. Heck, sometimes your car might even walk off. (This happened to us once. Parked in a rush-hour tow zone, expecting to get back in time to move it, didn't, then had to walk about 40 blocks in the rain to get it out of hock. But we digress.)
Our point is, on Thursday while the Yankees were busy getting walked off in Baltimore, the Mets were playing a getaway game with the Cardinals back in Queens. And this looked pretty similar. New York Team leads Former St Louis Team 5-3 in the 6th. (The Cards are still a St Louis team, but they're technically a former one too. Don't @ us.) This one, however, doesn't end quite the same. With two on in the 7th, Paul Goldschmidt hits into this little escapade. That's SF7f/DP 7-4/RBI if you're scoring at home. And then with 2 out in the 9th, Paul Goldschmidt hits a seeing-eye single through the left side to tie the game at 5 and send us to Free Runner Land. Goldy actually collected a homer, a double, a sac fly, and 4 RBI in addition to that single; he's the first Cardinals batter to do all that in the same game since Albert Pujols against Arizona on September 25, 2008.
Oh yes, speaking of Pujols, he's making one last victory lap (and pitching now too!). So when he grounds one to second in the top of the 10th, and the Mets know they get a free runner also, they'll gladly trade 1 run for 2 outs, even if we are in extras here. We're back to 6-5 Cardinals with the Mets needing another run to keep this going.
Or, Pete Alonso can see that free runner (Francisco Lindor) out there at second base and just pound one. Giovanny Gallegos throws his eight warmup pitches but his second "real" pitch ends up just fair into the second deck in left field for a 7-6 walkoff. And because we must relive this weirdness, the last time the Mets hit a walkoff homer when trailing... they weren't in their own stadium and it was in the 7th inning. It was August 28, 2020, when the home team (Yankees) batted first in the second game of a doubleheader. It's Amed Rosario off Aroldis Chapman.
The Mets hadn't hit any walkoff homer against the Cardinals since Angel Pagán took Fernando Salas deep on July 20, 2011, and they'd never hit a multi-run walkoff homer against St Louis in extra innings. And as for the Yankees and Mets both getting caught up in a multi-run walkoff homer on the same day? Well, officially it's that same Amed Rosario mess from two years ago. But if you add the "not against each other" asterisk, it was August 7, 2009, when A-Rod hit one against Boston and K-Rod gave up one to Everth Cabrera of the Padres
And by the way, it was a mere six days after the Rosario game when Pete Alonso hit another "2-run leadoff walkoff homer", also against the Yankees (though back in Queens). Since this could not happen before randomly-placed free runners in 2020, it's easy to figure out that he's the first player in MLB history to do this twice.
Since the Yankees and Mets are competing with each other for home-run notes, let's jump ahead to Saturday. Which we have to, because both teams got rained out on Friday, the Yankees in mid-afternoon because it "might rain later" (this is becoming a new soapbox for us), and the Mets in Colorado due to, no really, snow.
So when baseballs did finally get thrown instead of snowballs, neither team wasted any time. Brandon Nimmo led off the day game of Saturday's twinbill with a single, and Starling Marte followed with a 2-run homer. The Mets had never before had their second batter of a game hit a 2-run homer in Denver, at either stadium. German Marquez would go on to give up 11 hits but still strike out seven batters, the first Rockies pitcher to do that in a game since Brett Anderson against the Cubs on July 30, 2014.
Meanwhile, in the sunny-but-now-scorching Bronx, Dallas Keuchel got through the 1st inning unscathed. In the 2nd he was, um, scathed? (Is that a word? It's like "fettered".) Giancarlo Stanton leads off with a single. Gleyber Torres and Isiah Kiner-Falefa add base knocks of their own. And eventually DJ LeMahieu appears with 2 outs and the bases loaded. You get three guesses. That would be the first grand slam for the Yankees in a home game against the White Sox since Bernie Williams hit one on the other side of 161 St on May 17, 2000. That also means it's their first one at the current stadium, and since the Tigers fell off the list last April, Chicago was the last remaining AL opponent against whom the Yankees hadn't hit one at their new digs.
Keuchel, for his part, got tagged with 6 runs and recorded zero strikeouts before getting pulled in the 5th. He's the first White Sox pitcher with that line since... Dallas Keuchel did it in Cleveland on April 20. No Sox starter had done it twice in a season since Freddy Garcia in 2010 (and it took him until August).
(We mentioned the Mets and Rockies played a doubleheader on Saturday. More on the night game a little later. This is what we in the biz call a "tease".)
When last we left our Orioles, they were basking in Anthony Santander's 3-run walkoff to conclude their series with the Yankees. With the Yankees safely back in New York, the Birds brought in the Rays for the weekend. And that didn't start well either when Mike Zunino hit a 3-run homer in the 5th inning of Friday's opener. Ah, but somehow the Rays defense will come through. Brooks Raley inherits a baseball with two on in the 7th. His second pitch is a wild one that scores Tyler Nevin. His third pitch ia a routine fly ball to left that, um, is not routine. Eventually Trey Mancini ties the game at 3 and another game heads off to Free Runner Land.
The whole "free runner" thing was supposed to end games more quickly, especially these 1-1 and 2-2 snoozefests where it's obvious neither team can hit the ball and the fans all just want to go home. You're not supposed to just match each other and score the one run and keep going. Top 10, Brett Phillips doubles in Free Runner Taylor Walls. Yandy Diaz follows with a single to score Phillips, so the Rays actually got two out of this. What say you, Matt Wisler who pitches B10 for the Rays?
Ten pitches, 2 walks to load the bases. Which means who else but Anthony Santander singles and matches the Rays' 2 runs. Kevin Kiermaier singles home the Rays' free runner in the 11th. Hays does likewise for the Orioles. Tampa Bay does not score in the 12th, hey here's an opening. Ryan Thompson closes that without a ball getting past the infield. Finally in the bottom of the 13th Rougned Odor gets hold of the fourth pitch from Ralph Garza and the O's win this thing 8-6. By inning it was Baltimore's latest walkoff homer since Manny Machado hit one against Oakland on August 14, 2015. It was their first in any inning against the Rays since Chris Davis hit one on September 2 of that same year.
And combined with Santander's 3-run shot against the Yankees on Thursday, it was the first time the Orioles had connected for multi-run walkoff homers in consecutive games since Rich Dauer (against Cleveland) and John Lowenstein (against Detroit) each hit 2-run bombs on September 19 and 20, 1982.
Now we have three-fifths of the AL East embroiled in our post about dramatic home runs. We'll make a quick stop in Toronto, because they had an even stranger situation this week. The Jays were the designated interleague series for the weekend, hosting the Cincinnati Reds for the first time since 2017.
Bo Bichette has not yet (we don't think) attained the nickname "B.B.", as the longer-named Edwin Encarnacion acquired "E.E." fairly quickly upon his ascension to the majors. But on Saturday B.B. led off the 4th with a game-tying homer after Joey Votto had just posted an RBI double for the Reds in the top half. Still in a 1-1 tie in the 7th, Bichette goes yard again off former AL East foe Luis Cessa to give Toronto a 3-1 win. He's the second Jays batter with a multi-homer game against Cincinnati, and also the team's second batter to have 3 RBI and account for every run in an interleague win. On both counts, the other player is "E.E.". Encarnacion hit 2 homers at GABP on June 20, 2014, and did the 3-RBI deal against San Francisco on June 16, 2010.
So we head off to our final AL East destination, Fenway Park in Boston. Where it has not been a particularly great year, though it's picked up in recent days. The AL West-leading Astros were visiting for a few games, and Tuesday was... um... a day when they played. The good news is, Nate Eovaldi retired the Astros in order in the 1st, and Rafael Devers hit a solo homer in the bottom half.
Top 2. Yordan Alvarez, leadoff homer. Yuli Gurriel, E3. Kyle Tucker, 2-run homer. Jeremy Peña, homer. Flyout, single, double, Michael Brantley 3-run homer. Groundout. Alvarez (who started the inning), single to left. Oh we didn't forget a pitching change, Eovaldi is still out there. Gurriel for the second time: Um, yeah, that.
That's five homers, not just off one pitcher, but off one pitcher in the same inning. Although it's not an outright major-league record, only three pitchers in the history of the game have pulled that off: Chase Anderson of the Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium on September 17, 2020 (thankfully the cardboard cutouts did not interfere), and Milwaukee's Michael Blazek in Washington on July 27, 2017. More notably, Eovaldi didn't make it to the end of the 2nd inning, and gave up 5 homers while only getting 5 outs. That's also something only two other pitchers in MLB history have "accomplished"; they are Mike Fiers of Oakland on September 9, 2019, and Shane Greene of Detroit on May 30, 2015.
Just when you thought this was over, Kyle Tucker returns to the plate in the 4th against Tyler Danish. After the latter has given up two singles and a failed fielder's choice. Yes, the bases are loaded for Tucker to do this. That joins George Springer (May 14, 2016) and Jose Altuve (August 17, 2014) as the only grand slams hit by the Astros at Fenway, and it also gives Tucker two more distinctions. Not only had no Astros hitter ever had a multi-homer game at Fenway Park, no Houston batter had ever had 6 RBI in a game against Boston-- home or away. Thanks to all this scoring, the Astros just left Jose Urquidy out there to get pounded; he actually became the first Houston pitcher to give up 12 hits and get a win since Roy Oswalt did that against Seattle on June 17, 2007.
Now Serven
Okay, we promised you more Mets/Rockies from Saturday. And yes, they played a split doubleheader because May 20 is a perfectly acceptable time for it to snow in Denver. The Mets won the day game 5-1 with an assist from Starling Marte's 2-run homer as the second batter of the game. The Rockies won the night game 11-3, but it's more fun to look at How They Got There.
Brian Serven, already a legend for fouling a pitch to his family in his first major-league at-bat, got to catch and bat 9th for the Rockies. It's 2-2 when he comes to the plate for the first time in the 2nd. And this happens. It's his first homer in the bigs, and it also gives Colorado the lead. We're all very excited for him.
Fast-forward to the 6th. When Adonis Medina is in the middle of an implosion for the Mets. Single, flyout, double, single, errant pickoff throw, and oh look, Serven's up again. Whereupon he does this. That puts the Rockies up 8-3, they add 3 more runs later in the inning before Chasen Shreve finally escapes, and this one is very much over. Medina became the first Mets pitcher to give up 5 runs while getting 4 outs at Coors since Manny Acosta on April 27, 2012. Pete Alonso had 2 hits in both games, but didn't have an RBI or score a run himself in either contest; no Mets batter had done that in a doubleheader since Garry Templeton against the Expos on September 17, 1991.
But let's go back to Brian Serven. After the foul-ball game, this was only his second career MLB appearance. And he homered. Twice. Only two other Rockies #9 batters have hit multiple dingers in a game: True pitcher Mike Hampton against the Astros on June 5, 2001, and Sort-Of pitcher Brooks Kieschnick exactly a week before that against the Dodgers. But has any Rockies batter ever had a multi-homer game just two games into his MLB career? Well, yes, because you might remember the amazing debut of Trevor Story in early 2016. Where he had 9 hits but 7 homers in his first 6 games. Drove in 12 runs. Story and Brian Serven are the only batters in Rockies history to have a multi-homer game in either of their first two MLB appearances.
Someone say Trevor Story? After 10 years in the Rockies organization, including that red-hot MLB debut in 2016, he was not tendered an offer by Colorado last fall and became a free agent. He signed with the Red Sox just 2 weeks before Opening Day. So after starting with history at the second-oldest active ballpark (Wrigley Field), we're going to end this post with history at the first-oldest (Fenway Park).
On Thursday, Boston's #6 hitter (Story) launched a 2-run homer off Seattle's George Kirby in the 2nd. Not exciting yet. With 2 outs in the 3rd, and J.D. Martinez on first, he launched another one. Hmmm. Maybe we shouldn't let Kirby face him a third time, because "metrics".
So we didn't. Instead Story singled on the first pitch from Sergio Romo in the 6th, stole second, and later scored. He was also the first batter to face Wyatt Mills in the 7th; Story walked and later scored. And then, just for fun, Story comes up one more time in the 8th against Danny Young and belts another 3-run homer. The Red Sox pound the Mariners 12-6 but check out Story's line. Three homers and five runs scored. The only other batter in Red Sox history to pull that off was Jim Tabor in Philadelphia on July 4, 1939, and that is not the reason you remember that date. The only other players in major-league history with 4 hits, 5 runs, 7 RBI, and a stolen base in the same game are Yoenis Cespedes for the Mets in 2015 and Reb Russell for the Pirates in 1922.
Now let's see what Story did on Friday in the second game of the series. Ehhhh, not much, unless you include that 3rd-inning grand slam into the seats atop the Green Monster. Boston hadn't hit a grand slam against Seattle since Trot Nixon took J.J. Putz deep on May 14, 2005. On Friday Jackie Bradley later hit a 3-run homer to put the game away, making it only the second time the Red Sox have hit both a 3- and a 4-run homer in the same game against the Mariners. Bernie Carbo and Butch Hobson had those dingers at the Kingdome on August 3, 1977.
Have you ever wondered why we love this game?
Story's grand slam into the Monster seats on Friday broke a scoreless tie because it was only the 3rd inning. The last time the Red Sox hit a grand slam at Fenway to go up 4-0 was on May 3, 2014, by Jonny Gomes in the 1st inning against Oakland. That's kind of a fun note by itself. Gomes spent much more time with the Rays than with the Sawx, but he was a key cog in Boston's World Series title in 2013. He's been back to Fenway frequently since his retirement in 2016 and loves to sit in those Monster seats. NESN even interviewed him from up there.
Care to guess who caught Story's grand slam to break up a scoreless tie at Fenway? Only the last player to hit one!-- Jonny. freakin'. Gomes.
Baseball, man. Baseball.
Bottom Of The Bag
⚾ Adley Rutschmann, Saturday: First Orioles batter to triple in his MLB debut since Manny Machado against the Royals on August 9, 2012.
⚾ Manny Machado, Sunday: First player for any team to have a triple and 3 doubles in a game since Brian Roberts of the Yankees at Minnesota, July 4, 2014.
⚾ Albert Pujols, Wednesday: Second-oldest player in Cardinals history to have 2 hits and a stolen base in the same game. Stan Musial did it as a slightly-older 42-year-old on July 7, 1963.
⚾ Padres, Tuesday: First shutout (by any score) in Philadelphia since a 2-0 at The Vet on August 26, 1998.
⚾ Martin Perez, Friday: First Rangers pitcher to throw an individual shutout but still allow 7 hits since Brandon McCarthy, also at Houston, May 24, 2009.
⚾ Brewers, Monday: First time winning a 1-0 game on a wild pitch since August 24, 1990, at New York (Tim Leary scoring Bill Spiers).
⚾ Martin Maldonado, Thursday: Second Astros batter ever to hit a 3-run double in the 8th or later against the Rangers. Adam Everett connected against Joaquin Benoit 16 years earlier to the day.
⚾ Randy Arozarena & Brett Phillips, Tuesday: Second pair of teammates in Rays history to have a homer and a sac fly in the same game. Johnny Damon & Ben Zobrist did it at Yankee Stadium on September 22, 2011.
⚾ Darin Ruf, Friday: First Giants batter to have 2 homers and 2 walks in a game they lost since Barry Bonds against the Dodgers on October 5, 2001.
⚾ Cesar Hernandez & Jazz Chisholm, Wednesday: First game where both teams hit a leadoff triple since Johnny Damon (BOS) and Lew Ford (MIN) on August 5, 2005.
⚾ Royals, Tuesday: First time scoring 2 or fewer runs in a doubleheader since June 10, 2004, against Montréal. First time ever doing it and winning either game.
⚾ Franchy Cordero, Sunday: Third walkoff grand slam in Red Sox history against the Mariners. The others were both in 1998, by Mo Vaughn (April 10) and Nomar Garciaparra (September 2, since that date keeps coming up).
⚾ Luis Arraez, Wednesday: Second batter in Twins/Sens franchise history with 2 doubles, a stolen base, 2 RBI, and 4 runs scored. Goose Goslin did it against Detroit on July 30, 1927.
⚾ Tim Anderson, Thursday: Second visiting player ever to have 2 hits, 2 walks, 2 stolen bases, and 2 RBI in a game at Kauffman Stadium. Rich Becker of the Twins did it on September 18, 1996.
⚾ George Springer, Tuesday: First batter in Jays history whose 3-run triple accounted for the team's only runs of a game.
⚾ Reds, Friday: First time collecting 5 doubles in a game but only scoring 1 run since May 27, 2001, against the Cardinals.
⚾ Curt Casali, Monday: First #9 batter in Giants history to have 3 hits, 3 runs scored, and 4 RBI in the same game.
⚾ Nate Lowe, Wednesday: First walkoff homer for Rangers when trailing against the Angels since Billy Hamilton on July 9, 2008.
⚾ Orioles, Sunday: First walkoff FCX (fielder's choice, no out recorded) in extra innings since Bobby Grich beat a play at the plate in the 17th inning on September 27, 1974.
⚾ Dodgers, Tuesday: First time scoring 7+ runs in both games of a doubleheader since September 10, 1985, in Atlanta.
⚾ Nationals, Friday: First team to turn a triple play in a game where they got shut out since the Padres did it on June 10, 2010.
⚾ Rangers, Monday: First 6-run 1st inning against the Angels since May 11, 2012.
⚾ Mookie Betts, Saturday: First Dodgers leadoff batter with a homer, a double, and a single in a game in Philadelphia since Pee Wee Reese on May 8, 1954.
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