OK, DU baseball experts: How rare is it for a batter to hit two home runs in one half

Redstone

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Tue Aug-12-08 06:41 PM
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OK, DU baseball experts: How rare is it for a batter to hit two home runs in one half

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of an inning, like Davd Ortiz just did?

I expect it hasn't happened too frequently...I don't remember ever seeing it before, but I'm thinking that maybe Reggie Jackson may have done it.

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MissMillie

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Tue Aug-12-08 06:49 PM
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1. well, it's not all that often that a team

bats around the batting order in one half of an inning

Papi is the bomb. :loveya:

(but I still miss Manny)

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flvegan

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Tue Aug-12-08 06:50 PM
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2. Very. Unsure exactly how rare. Oedi would probably know.

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Oeditpus Rex

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Tue Aug-12-08 07:01 PM
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3. I was thinking Jim Northrup did it with Detroit in '68

Edited on Tue Aug-12-08 07:09 PM by Oeditpus Rex

But that was in consecutive innings.

Both were grand slams, though. :)

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1968/B06240CLE1968.htm

Okay, I found one � and I should've remembered it. Jeff Bagwell did it against the Dodgers on June 24, 1994 � oddly, 26 years to the day after Northrup hit his two slams.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1994/B06240HOU1994.htm

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Redstone

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Tue Aug-12-08 07:13 PM
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5. Holy crap, it's been FOURTEEN YEARS and the announcers haven't mentioned it?

Don't they have people to look up stats?

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Oeditpus Rex

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Tue Aug-12-08 07:19 PM
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7. I imagine Vinny mentioned it

every time Bagwell came up against the Dodgers after that. He never forgets anything.

I missed a lotta games in the '90s and early '00s, though, since the Dodgers didn't have a radio station I could pick up. (They still don't, but now there's XM and the internets.)

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Chan790

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Tue Aug-12-08 07:29 PM
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10. I ran a google search...

It seems to be rare, but not rare enough to be noteworthy enough for someone to have compiled a list.

I did discover that only two players (Mark Bellhorn and Carlos Baerga) have ever hit a HR from each side of the plate in one inning.

I'm going to keep digging.

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bluedigger

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Tue Aug-12-08 07:12 PM
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4. Fourth time in Red Sox history

"Ortiz just cranked his second three-run homer, with Cash (walk) and Pedroia (single) aboard. Ortiz's 16th HR of the season, second of the inning, ties a major league record for homers in an inning and it's the fourth time it's happened in Red Sox history. Nomar Garciaparra was the last to do it, July 23, 2002, against Tampa Bay."

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/

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GOPisEvil

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Tue Aug-12-08 07:18 PM
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6. Fernando Tatis hit two GRAND SLAMS in the same inning.

He was playing for the Cardinals at the time and hit both off Dodger pitcher Chan Ho Park.

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Oeditpus Rex

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Tue Aug-12-08 07:25 PM
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9. Heebus, he did!

April 23, 1999. Eli Marrero hit a solo homer that inning, too.

Not Park's best day � although Eric Karros prolonged the inning with a two-out error.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1999/B04230LAN1999.htm

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Iggo

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Tue Aug-12-08 07:22 PM
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8. I watched Fernando Tatis do it.

He hit two grand slams off Chan Ho Park in one inning.

Woulda been great, except I'm a Dodger fan.

Question:. How does a pitcher load the bases, give up a grand slam, go through five more hitters, then proceed to load the bases again, and give up ANOTHER grand slam?!?!?

Answer: The idiot manager LEAVES HIM IN THE GAME!!! That's how.

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Oeditpus Rex

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Tue Aug-12-08 07:38 PM
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12. The only thing that makes any sense at all

is that since it was the third inning, nobody in the bullpen was ready yet.

Still...

CARDINALS 3RD: Bragg singled to right; Renteria was hit by a pitch (Bragg to second); McGwire singled to right (Bragg to third, Renteria to second); Tatis homered (Bragg scored, Renteria scored, McGwire scored); Drew grounded out (first to pitcher); Marrero homered; POLANCO BATTED FOR D. HOWARD; Polanco walked; McEwing walked (Polanco to second);

You'd think that'd be enough time to get somebody warmed up, wouldn't you?

But, as I recall, Davey Johnson was all about offense.

Here's the rest of the inning:

Jimenez reached on a fielder's choice on a sacrifice bunt (Polanco to third, McEwing to second); Bragg reached on an error by Karros (Polanco scored (no RBI), McEwing to third, Jimenez to second); Renteria singled to right (McEwing scored (unearned), Jimenez to third, Bragg to second); McGwire flied to right; Tatis homered (unearned) (Jimenez scored (unearned), Bragg scored (unearned), Renteria scored (unearned)); PEREZ REPLACED PARK (PITCHING); Drew popped to third; 11 R (6 ER), 6 H, 1 E, 0 LOB. Cardinals 11, Dodgers 2.

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GOPisEvil

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Tue Aug-12-08 07:40 PM
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13. Notice JD Drew made two of the outs in that inning...

That guy made me :grr: so many times...

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MissMillie

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Tue Aug-12-08 07:42 PM
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14. Here in MA

we have come to the conclusion that JD Drew only performs well on the field when we talk trash about him.

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GOPisEvil

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Tue Aug-12-08 07:45 PM
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15. What grinds my gears is that he seems not to care a whit whether he gets a hit or not.

When he hit that grand slam in the playoffs last year, I was shocked. Of course, where the hell was that all those years in the playoffs in St. Louis? Then I got all pissed and needed to calm down. ;)

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MissMillie

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Tue Aug-12-08 07:47 PM
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16. funny thing is that overall

he did NOT have a good year here last year.

He's done much better this year.

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SalmonChantedEvening

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Tue Aug-12-08 07:32 PM
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11. Last time I saw it was in the late 1980's

Von Hayes vs. the Mets, in the first inning of a 26-7 romp.

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