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| Author: | Northside_Dan [ Mon Jan 04, 2010 11:38 am ] |
| Post subject: | Cool Baseball Article |
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/s ... id=4785295 My favorite: The Strangest But Truest Game of the Year Nothing in baseball makes for more spectacular megaweirdness than the old suspended-game trick. Fortunately for us Strange But True addicts, the Astros and Nationals pulled that one on us in 2009. They started the game May 5 in Washington. They finished it July 9 in Houston. And because the baseball historians will insist that even the stuff that happened in July in Houston actually occurred in Washington in May, this game produced all of this distinctive madness: • The Astros became the first team since the 1975 Twins to lose a game on a walk-off hit IN THEIR OWN BALLPARK. • The Nationals pulled off the challenging feat of actually winning a game DURING a five-game losing streak. • The history books will tell us forever that Nyjer Morgan somehow scored the winning run for the Nationals on the same day he got a hit for the Pirates. • The Nationals used eight players in this game who weren't even on their team by the time they finished it. • This game is the highest-scoring game in the history of Nationals Park -- even though the last of the 21 runners who scored happened to cross a home plate that was located 1,218 miles away. • And the most innovative feat of all was turned in by the winning pitcher, Joel Hanrahan, who had gotten traded to the Pirates before this game ended. So at the exact moment he was awarded his win, he was actually taking a nap in Philadelphia. Which prompted Pirates coach-witticist Rich Donnelly to observe: "You know, if he'd have gotten a good eight hours in, he might have had a chance to win 20. Baseball talk makes me feel warm. |
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