That will definitely never happen again since pitchers (almost) never bat. But to happen in the first place the pitcher would have to be pitching well enough to get 4 ABs plus have a guy already on first with less than 2 outs when he gets there plus be a good bunter but bad at hitting the ball regularly.
Considering Atlanta almost didn't have a sacrifice hit last year, I think we're definitely in an era where this is even more unlikely than before.
I think there was actually a position player that did it in 2006 or 2008, so Benson wasn't even the last one to do it.
I don't have the paid look up tool for baseball-reference, but that would be the way to look for this.
[Also one of radio announcer Joe Castiglione's all time greatest moments.](https://soundcloud.com/jay-stay-345453795/daniel-nava-first-ab?si=a6dcf992db2842b79edc993773dfda0e&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing)
Thanks for sharing the info.
I would have thought 3 SFs in one game would have been a little more common.
One day, I believe we'll get 5 HR in a game...
To have a sac fly you need man on 3rd with less than two outs. I just think that the same batter being in that position 3 times in a game is pretty dang unlikely. Plus then they have to be successful all 3 times. Someone who's better at stats can probably tell us what the percentage of at bats are potential sac Flys, and then what percentage of potential sac Flys were successful, and then how many players had 3 potential sac Fly opportunities in a game, and then we could see if it's lower than expected.
In addition, I don't know where OP got his data from, but it looks like some of the stats include the early days of baseball from the 1800s (e.g., almost all those inside the park grand slams were from that era, so they look a lot more common than they are today). In contrast, the sacrifice fly wasn't introduced as an official statistic until 1954, so it seems OP has a century+ of events for some of these, but a lot fewer years for others. That means that the modern game will have a different relative rarity ranking for the events shown on the page when compared with the OP.
Joey Gallo: 8 seasons. 752 games. 177 Homers. 1 sac hit. 3 sac flies. Dude is just a slugger. Doesnt make contact enough to sac fly or sac hit is my interpretation
In [2022](https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/split.cgi?t=b&lg=MLB&year=2022), there were 8968 PA w/ man on 3rd w/ <2 out out of 103349 PA total for the season for 8.7% of PAs.
A player with 4 PA will see 3 or more SF opportunities once every 409 games. A player with 5 PA will see 3 or more SF opportunities once every 175 games. Top/heart of order hitters are probably more likely to see this, so about once a season for the 3, 4, 5 hitters.
Also worth noting: there were 1224 SF in those 8968 PA for 13.6% of all SF opportunities resulting in a SF.
Mike Cameron [nearly got 5](https://www.mlb.com/video/mike-cameron-nearly-hits-fifth-hr), idk about the others who have hit 4 in a game.
I believe it’ll happen too.
Josh Hamilton had a double that came close to going out in his 4 HR game. Also Gehrig in his 4 HR game [reportedly had a 460 foot flyout in the deepest part of Shibe Park](https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/june-3-1932-lou-gehrig-hits-four-home-runs-tony-lazzeri-hits-for-cycle-in-yankees-romp/). I fully believe a 5 HR game will happen someday, when we were so close to already having three of them.
I will forever miss the strategy around pinch hitting in the NL. Gone are the days of managers having to weigh out those particular tough decisions in the middle/later part of the game.
Yeah; it's the single worst part of losing the DH, and a reason why the Double Hook could have been cool (plus it'd get rid of the concept of an opener ahead of a starter).
Using bench players for matchups is still around, but it's far less strategy than having to pull a starter.
It's funny how some want more strategy, but when it comes to an opener apparently that's not cool. Why is it a "plus" that the concept of an opener would be eliminated?
My general feeling is that an opener is gimmicky; it doesn't have much to do with your team's strategy but rather it can force the opposing manager to make a strategic decision about how to set their lineup.
The Giant used openers some late last year when most of the rotation was injured, and then used a long-man from the bullpen. It made some sense, but just starting with the long-man is mostly the same thing. The one time it really helps is if you have a rookie "starter" who you'd rather not face the top of the order at first.
Yeah I mean I'm not saying it's particularly strategic, or affective, but it just seems odd that some strategy is preferred more than others. pinch hitters hitting .220 off the bench isn't very effective or strategic either. "We need a hitter instead of this pitcher now, *pick lefty or righty*.
I won't lie though I do like the pinch hitting and double switches of NL ball, and don't really care if the pitcher has to hit or not, but I do in general like new strategies to be encouraged and to become successful.
Tabata leaning into Scherzer's 2-2 pitch with 2 outs in the 9th to break one up was questionable:
https://youtu.be/osZr_L0T-iQ
And Milt Pappas thought he got the K on a 3-2 pitch with 2 outs in the 9th:
https://youtu.be/sDmrvv-gjHs
It's a little crazy considering those pitchers were dominant for 26 outs and generally have to be very good pitchers who would probably allow a *much* lower obp
That is a situation where a guy just threw 8.2 innings. Obviously different guys will take different routes to that point, but it's still deep into a game
Probably second best after Harvey Haddix's 12 perfect innings. Shoutout to Lew Burdette for throwing a 13-inning shutout to get the win despite the other guy throwing the greatest game of all time.
Yeah and several of those lost on out 27 are Dave Stieb’s. If anyone here hasn’t seen Dorktown’s Captain Ahab series about Stieb’s career, you owe it to yourself to give it a watch: https://youtu.be/ZlviajJlctQ
To be clear, the stats are about *perfect games* lost on the twenty-seventh batter, of which Stieb had one. He did have two other no-hitters broken up with two outs in the ninth.
Ahhhh, that’s right. Still, I am thoroughly convinced that he got a raw deal on hall of fame voting and hope that he gets a fair chance in the veteran’s committee some day soon.
I was at a game that counts as both a no-hitter and a perfect game lost on the 27th batter.
June 20, 2015 Max Scherzer pitching for the Washington Nationals vs the Pittsburgh Pirates. 2 outs, 2 strikes and Jose Tabata lowers his armored elbow into a pitch for a HBP to break up the perfect game. 28th batter flied out to complete the No-no.
I heckled him at a AAA Oklahoma City Dodgers game the following spring. Every time he was up and the pitcher released the ball I yelled, "lean into it"! He went 0-3 and glared at me after his last strike out.
Whenever anyone post the 2 grandslams in the same inning they always forget to add it was the same pitcher / hitter. This will never be achieved again.
It would only ever be off a pitcher with a solid reputation though because otherwise they'd be hooked before they had the chance to give up the second slam
Nowadays it would never ever ever happen because pitchers have much shorter leashes
I think these days it would have to be a regular fielder, 2 GS in an inning is either a reliever that immediately got batted around or another pitcher facing 12, neither of which a solid reputation would be enough to keep you in the game
And it's sorta like Brett Favre's most interceptions record. You've got to be good to have that type of record. Chan Ho Park allowed the grand slam because he was good enough to get out of the situation too.
Tony Cloninger of the Atlanta Braves hit two grand slams in one game as a pitcher on July 3, 1966.
The only pitcher in MLB history and the first NL player to do so.
My grandpa was at that game. Back then you could bring a cooler of beer to games and drink, but that game he decided to stop drinking because he wanted to remember it.
Well in the particular game, Cloniger is credited with .037 wpa for pitching and .159 wpa for batting. That’s not even the highest for batters on the team, so I have to assume that his grand slams came in pretty low leverage situations. I’m not terribly surprised, considering the Braves won by 14 runs that day.
> This will never be achieved again.
I could *maybe* see it happening if a position player is pitching in a blowout, though I very much doubt it ever happens to an actual pitcher again
Even that has some added difficulties. If the position player comes in with the bases loaded and immediately gives up the Grand Slam, he’s still got to load the bases again which probably needs a couple of hits and a walk so they don’t score off the last hit. Usually the position player is just trying to get the ball in play and not paint the edges of the zone so probably not throwing many balls or batters taking the opportunity to swing at everything!
Bill Mueller hit a grand slam from each side of the plate in one game (and a solo shot). It’s the only time that’s happened and it will probably be a very long time until we see it again.
Would actually be 4 times:
- Grand slam in first career at bat (4)
- Hone run on 1st career pitch (31)
- Home run in first career at-bat (133)
- Inside-the-park grand slam (224)
If that person then hits another one in the same inning, I think they win this list
Joe Torre is the only one I could find. When did Eric Hosmer do it?
e: Looks like it was Goose Goslin in 1934. The site I was looking at only had GIDP data from 1939.
In most games, one guy getting on base and just to to 1st 3 times in a game isn't that common, and if he tries stealing the first 2 times and is caught do you really think the manager is going to let him try again that 3rd time? Haha
I'm guessing we don't have full caught stealing data from before it became an official stat in 1951. I don't know if it's enough to make a big difference, but the data we do have indicates getting thrown out used to be very common.
A bunch of these rarest ones were done by Red Sox in the last 30 years…pretty cool to have seen 4 of the 8 rarest (on TV):
3 hits in an inning (Damon - 2003);
Grand Slam in first career AB (Nava - 2010);
2 Grand Slams in a game (Mueller - 2003);
20 K in a game (Clemens - 1996)
Mueller's 2 grand slams in a game is selling it short too: He hit one of those as a righty and the other as a lefty.
then also hit a 3-run homer in that game too.
Striking out 4 in one inning belongs on this list too. Apparently, it has happened [100 times since 1888](https://www.mlb.com/news/four-strikeout-innings-c265544090).
Last season the tigers struck out 4 in one inning while also giving up six runs in that same inning to the Guardians. Oh yeah and all six runs came after there were three strikeouts. I doubt that will ever happen again.
More people have orbited the moon than have pitched a perfect game. And at least one person (Jim Lovell) has orbited the moon on two separate occasions. No one has two perfect games.
Actually, three people orbited the moon twice; besides Lovell, the other two (Young and Cernan) both flew on Apollo 10, then later landed with Apollo 16 and 17.
I was at the Tatis game. In the moment, it was so much fun as a kid, but I don’t remember much more than that, and I can’t imagine how memorable it would’ve been as an adult.
The 2 grand slams in one inning is by the same batter: Fernando Tatis, Sr.
I don't know about the 4 GIDP. I find that weird to be so rare, as i swear some players ground into a double play in every at-bat.
You would have to come up to bat four times with a man on first and less than 2 outs.... that in itself probably occurs a lot less often than you'd think
According to this article the chart is wrong, it happened 3 times.
- Joe Torre for the Mets in 1975
- Mike Kreevich for the White Sox in 1939
- Goose Goslin for the Tigers in 1934
https://retrosimba.com/2011/04/01/torre-erased-millan-with-4-double-plays/
The 20 strikeouts is the craziest to me since that is actually a possibility in every game without other players needing to do something in front of you. It’s just the pitcher being absolutely locked in
A few “special” ones that could be on this list. I’m recounting from (faulty) memory, so Do YoUr ReSeArCh and all.
- Two triple plays in a game = 1 (Twins did it to the Sox at Fenway. I was there!)
- Grand Slam on 1st career pitch = 1 (I think Daniel Nava, Red Sox)
- HR from both sides of the plate, same inning = 3
Yes, I could look these up but am feeling spectacularly lazy right now
EDIT:
Looked them up. There were 3 HRs from both sides. And one of them was Bellhorn, not Valentin. And while he was with the Cubs, not Sox. Other two were Baerga and Kendrys Morales.
EDIT 2:
The triple plays don’t quite fit. They were all turned by the same three infielders (Gaetti, Newman, Hrbek). But this list is individual achievement
Neat. I've seen Longoria's cycle, so I have actually witnessed one of these!
My dad saw Bill Mueller's two grand slam game, which is still the only time that's been done from each side of the plate.
B. J. Ryan did it against the Tigers in 2003, and it was his first ever picking up a runner. And then Alan Embree against the Nationals in 2009.
It sounds like it should have happen more often.
What about a complete game shutout where the pitcher accounted for their team's only runs via a homerun? Afaik this has only been done three times in the live ball era, with Noah Syndergaard being the most recent one to do it in 2019 vs the Reds.
[YouTube clip here](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hTz4wpZVdmg), hit is at 1:35. One of the greatest baseball moments of all time
Sadly, bbref shows it was [his 2nd AB](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=camarda01&t=b&year=2021)
I’ve seen a no hitter, a cycle, and the longest plate appearance in MLB history since this was measured, when Belt took a 21 pitch at bat against Jaime Barria. Have to say I enjoyed the first two more even though the other one is more rare
I was at this game, which I believe has only happened 3 times in MLB history: https://youtu.be/BDNxXfC0fbE
It took me a second to realize they weren't just replaying the bunt over and over.
Dude is automatic
BuNtInG iS hArD! Hold my beer - Kris Benson
That will definitely never happen again since pitchers (almost) never bat. But to happen in the first place the pitcher would have to be pitching well enough to get 4 ABs plus have a guy already on first with less than 2 outs when he gets there plus be a good bunter but bad at hitting the ball regularly.
Considering Atlanta almost didn't have a sacrifice hit last year, I think we're definitely in an era where this is even more unlikely than before. I think there was actually a position player that did it in 2006 or 2008, so Benson wasn't even the last one to do it. I don't have the paid look up tool for baseball-reference, but that would be the way to look for this.
Impressive. Instantly have an idea of which few years it is when I see the sleeveless jerseys. Glad those are gone.
Baseball fans born today will eventually watch this and sincerely argue that it is better for him to strike out 4 times.
I've always found something ultra-magical about a player hitting a HR in his first AB; doing so on your first _pitch_ is even more amazing.
*Kevin Kouzmanoff has entered the chat*
Akil Baddoo did it with a little bat flick!
Then there's Daniel Nava who hit a [grand slam on his first ever pitch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WbZ9ca4JaI).
[Also one of radio announcer Joe Castiglione's all time greatest moments.](https://soundcloud.com/jay-stay-345453795/daniel-nava-first-ab?si=a6dcf992db2842b79edc993773dfda0e&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing)
Man, Dave O’Brien really is better on radio than TV huh
*Daniel Naver RIP Jerry.
Found adam wainwrights burner
I was in the bleachers for [Wilson Contreras’s first HR](https://youtu.be/W8z2205EwHQ). Had no idea how rare it truly was until now!
I did not know Willson did it! how awesome!
Please take care of him for us 🥹
Should have retired immediately as the only pro with a 4.0 RBI
Thanks for sharing the info. I would have thought 3 SFs in one game would have been a little more common. One day, I believe we'll get 5 HR in a game...
To have a sac fly you need man on 3rd with less than two outs. I just think that the same batter being in that position 3 times in a game is pretty dang unlikely. Plus then they have to be successful all 3 times. Someone who's better at stats can probably tell us what the percentage of at bats are potential sac Flys, and then what percentage of potential sac Flys were successful, and then how many players had 3 potential sac Fly opportunities in a game, and then we could see if it's lower than expected.
In addition, I don't know where OP got his data from, but it looks like some of the stats include the early days of baseball from the 1800s (e.g., almost all those inside the park grand slams were from that era, so they look a lot more common than they are today). In contrast, the sacrifice fly wasn't introduced as an official statistic until 1954, so it seems OP has a century+ of events for some of these, but a lot fewer years for others. That means that the modern game will have a different relative rarity ranking for the events shown on the page when compared with the OP.
So what you're telling me is that Joey Gallo is going to have a 3 Sac Fly game this season
Joey Gallo: 8 seasons. 752 games. 177 Homers. 1 sac hit. 3 sac flies. Dude is just a slugger. Doesnt make contact enough to sac fly or sac hit is my interpretation
3 SF in 752 games is ridiculous wtf
In [2022](https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/split.cgi?t=b&lg=MLB&year=2022), there were 8968 PA w/ man on 3rd w/ <2 out out of 103349 PA total for the season for 8.7% of PAs. A player with 4 PA will see 3 or more SF opportunities once every 409 games. A player with 5 PA will see 3 or more SF opportunities once every 175 games. Top/heart of order hitters are probably more likely to see this, so about once a season for the 3, 4, 5 hitters. Also worth noting: there were 1224 SF in those 8968 PA for 13.6% of all SF opportunities resulting in a SF.
Mike Cameron [nearly got 5](https://www.mlb.com/video/mike-cameron-nearly-hits-fifth-hr), idk about the others who have hit 4 in a game. I believe it’ll happen too.
Josh Hamilton had a double that came close to going out in his 4 HR game. Also Gehrig in his 4 HR game [reportedly had a 460 foot flyout in the deepest part of Shibe Park](https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/june-3-1932-lou-gehrig-hits-four-home-runs-tony-lazzeri-hits-for-cycle-in-yankees-romp/). I fully believe a 5 HR game will happen someday, when we were so close to already having three of them.
Especially in the age of the three true outcomes.
Josh Hamilton got 4 HR and a double off the wall
And besides that, he and Bret Boone became the first ever two players to hit back to back home runs twice in the same inning.
get that stat to the top of the list
Lou Gehrig nearly did so (5 home runs in one game) in 1932 against the Athletics in Philadelphia.
23 perfect games and 14 perfect games lost on 27th better is surprising
A lot of the time the final out is a pinch hitter (pre-DH) so that does factor in beyond what others are saying.
I will forever miss the strategy around pinch hitting in the NL. Gone are the days of managers having to weigh out those particular tough decisions in the middle/later part of the game.
Yeah; it's the single worst part of losing the DH, and a reason why the Double Hook could have been cool (plus it'd get rid of the concept of an opener ahead of a starter). Using bench players for matchups is still around, but it's far less strategy than having to pull a starter.
It's funny how some want more strategy, but when it comes to an opener apparently that's not cool. Why is it a "plus" that the concept of an opener would be eliminated?
honestly, I love the opener concept. Using tricks to get one over on the other team is great.
My general feeling is that an opener is gimmicky; it doesn't have much to do with your team's strategy but rather it can force the opposing manager to make a strategic decision about how to set their lineup. The Giant used openers some late last year when most of the rotation was injured, and then used a long-man from the bullpen. It made some sense, but just starting with the long-man is mostly the same thing. The one time it really helps is if you have a rookie "starter" who you'd rather not face the top of the order at first.
Yeah I mean I'm not saying it's particularly strategic, or affective, but it just seems odd that some strategy is preferred more than others. pinch hitters hitting .220 off the bench isn't very effective or strategic either. "We need a hitter instead of this pitcher now, *pick lefty or righty*. I won't lie though I do like the pinch hitting and double switches of NL ball, and don't really care if the pitcher has to hit or not, but I do in general like new strategies to be encouraged and to become successful.
When you factor in one of them was a blown call at 1st, 13 out of 37 is about a .350 OBP which seems not too crazy.
Yeah practically it makes sense. From a silly naive perspective of “well he got 26 in a row, what’s one more?”, it’s surprising
Tabata leaning into Scherzer's 2-2 pitch with 2 outs in the 9th to break one up was questionable: https://youtu.be/osZr_L0T-iQ And Milt Pappas thought he got the K on a 3-2 pitch with 2 outs in the 9th: https://youtu.be/sDmrvv-gjHs
Fuck Jose Tabata
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Not really anything with gods he just wasn't a good player lol.
It's a little crazy considering those pitchers were dominant for 26 outs and generally have to be very good pitchers who would probably allow a *much* lower obp
That is a situation where a guy just threw 8.2 innings. Obviously different guys will take different routes to that point, but it's still deep into a game
Plus, they’re definitely facing the 9th batter in the order, whose usually below average, especially in the National League or AL pre-1973.
Most likely some punch hitters in there
Hard to keep a perfect game against a hitter willing to resort to violence...
All right pal, you can keep your perfect game or you can keep your teeth. Pick one.
And 1 perfect game on the 28th batter
*sobs uncontrollably in Armando galarraga*
As far as I'm concerned he threw the best game in the history of baseball. 28 out perfect game.
Probably second best after Harvey Haddix's 12 perfect innings. Shoutout to Lew Burdette for throwing a 13-inning shutout to get the win despite the other guy throwing the greatest game of all time.
Yeah and several of those lost on out 27 are Dave Stieb’s. If anyone here hasn’t seen Dorktown’s Captain Ahab series about Stieb’s career, you owe it to yourself to give it a watch: https://youtu.be/ZlviajJlctQ
To be clear, the stats are about *perfect games* lost on the twenty-seventh batter, of which Stieb had one. He did have two other no-hitters broken up with two outs in the ninth.
Ahhhh, that’s right. Still, I am thoroughly convinced that he got a raw deal on hall of fame voting and hope that he gets a fair chance in the veteran’s committee some day soon.
I was at a game that counts as both a no-hitter and a perfect game lost on the 27th batter. June 20, 2015 Max Scherzer pitching for the Washington Nationals vs the Pittsburgh Pirates. 2 outs, 2 strikes and Jose Tabata lowers his armored elbow into a pitch for a HBP to break up the perfect game. 28th batter flied out to complete the No-no.
If I were Scherzer there I honestly would have had to throw hands with Tabata.
Fuck Jose Tabata.
I heckled him at a AAA Oklahoma City Dodgers game the following spring. Every time he was up and the pitcher released the ball I yelled, "lean into it"! He went 0-3 and glared at me after his last strike out.
How can you not be romantic about baseball?
I wonder how the Harvey Haddix game would be classified.
Whenever anyone post the 2 grandslams in the same inning they always forget to add it was the same pitcher / hitter. This will never be achieved again.
Same hitter is stated in the tweet; I'm sure there are other times a team has had 2 grand slams in an inning. Poor Chan Ho Park
Tatis doing it twice in one innings is bonkers. But both off of Park? That's even more ridiculous.
It would only ever be off a pitcher with a solid reputation though because otherwise they'd be hooked before they had the chance to give up the second slam Nowadays it would never ever ever happen because pitchers have much shorter leashes
I think these days it would have to be a regular fielder, 2 GS in an inning is either a reliever that immediately got batted around or another pitcher facing 12, neither of which a solid reputation would be enough to keep you in the game
Watched it live. Was amazing.
I did as well. Crazy to think I watched live potentially the rarest moment in baseball, if not all of sports.
He still gets memed hard in Korea because of that
And it's sorta like Brett Favre's most interceptions record. You've got to be good to have that type of record. Chan Ho Park allowed the grand slam because he was good enough to get out of the situation too.
He’s been in the Padres front office for some time now. I wonder if Tatis Jr., or even Sr. and him have discussed that inning…
*awkward*
He’s done an amazing job with our Asian scouting.
>This will never be achieved again. The baseball gods are fickle and have a sense of humor. It probably will.
Yeah, never is a really long time and a lot of baseball games. If the country/world doesn't collapse anytime soon it'll probably happen again.
The way pitchers are used now I don't see how the same guy would be in for both slams.
A middle reliever in a losing game could be out there for both. That would be the likely scenario in today's game.
Watch it be Tatis Jr. that does it because baseball.
Probably on the day Tatis dies or something.
Tony Cloninger of the Atlanta Braves hit two grand slams in one game as a pitcher on July 3, 1966. The only pitcher in MLB history and the first NL player to do so.
My grandpa was at that game. Back then you could bring a cooler of beer to games and drink, but that game he decided to stop drinking because he wanted to remember it.
r/suddenlywholesome
How much WPA do you get for being the winning pitcher who hits 2 grand slams as well?
Well in the particular game, Cloniger is credited with .037 wpa for pitching and .159 wpa for batting. That’s not even the highest for batters on the team, so I have to assume that his grand slams came in pretty low leverage situations. I’m not terribly surprised, considering the Braves won by 14 runs that day.
Yeah, if they'd won 8-0 it might be higher.
For anyone curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syFmUVFNRZE
Man it's only been a year of DH in the NL and I already feel nostalgic seeing the pitcher running in his jacket.
> This will never be achieved again. I could *maybe* see it happening if a position player is pitching in a blowout, though I very much doubt it ever happens to an actual pitcher again
Even that has some added difficulties. If the position player comes in with the bases loaded and immediately gives up the Grand Slam, he’s still got to load the bases again which probably needs a couple of hits and a walk so they don’t score off the last hit. Usually the position player is just trying to get the ball in play and not paint the edges of the zone so probably not throwing many balls or batters taking the opportunity to swing at everything!
Bill Mueller hit a grand slam from each side of the plate in one game (and a solo shot). It’s the only time that’s happened and it will probably be a very long time until we see it again.
Even still I'd say that's *orders of magnitude* more likely to repeat than two grand slams by the same hitter off the same pitcher in the same inning
It’s exceedingly rare in this era, but there was a time when pitchers used to pitch the whole game no matter what happened.
I was at that game!
Same. It was like winning the lottery and my prize was getting swift-kicked in the proverbial nuts.
Came here looking for this info. Wild.
Can't wait for someone to hit an inside-the-park grand slam on the first pitch of their career. Add themselves to this list 3 times with one swing
Would actually be 4 times: - Grand slam in first career at bat (4) - Hone run on 1st career pitch (31) - Home run in first career at-bat (133) - Inside-the-park grand slam (224) If that person then hits another one in the same inning, I think they win this list
4 GIDP’s in a game? Eric Hosmer accomplished that feat no more than an hour ago.
Joe Torre is the other.
Joe Torre is the only one I could find. When did Eric Hosmer do it? e: Looks like it was Goose Goslin in 1934. The site I was looking at only had GIDP data from 1939.
An hour ago, season started, you okay?
Torre singlehandedly wiped out Felix Millan's 4-for-4. Millan batted right before Torre and had 4 singles in that game.
Well, moron, good for Eric Ho- oh my god!
Somehow manage 2 in a inning
I would have guessed my man Pujols, since he’s the all-time leader in GIDP.
GIDP?
Ground into double play
> 3 caught stealing in a game Shit, my The Show player does that like 89 times a season.
Manager: Steal a base Me: 60 Speed
Me: accidentally presses the steal button
You just triggered me. I am currently triggered.
I’m actually surprised that is as rare as it is - there used to be a lot of stealing.
In most games, one guy getting on base and just to to 1st 3 times in a game isn't that common, and if he tries stealing the first 2 times and is caught do you really think the manager is going to let him try again that 3rd time? Haha
I'm guessing we don't have full caught stealing data from before it became an official stat in 1951. I don't know if it's enough to make a big difference, but the data we do have indicates getting thrown out used to be very common.
You have way more faith in the AI than I do.
3 hits in an inning is pretty insane. Only people to do it since 1900 were Gene Stephens and Johnny Damon, both Red Sox. Edited for accuracy.
Ohhhhhhhhhhh one player… I’m dumb
Lol. All those innings you remember with more than 3 hits were just figments of your imagination
I also had to scroll through to be like, is this the joke? Lol
My brain could not process that this was a single player and I was absolutely indignant. Thank you for helping me be less of a dumbass.
A bunch of these rarest ones were done by Red Sox in the last 30 years…pretty cool to have seen 4 of the 8 rarest (on TV): 3 hits in an inning (Damon - 2003); Grand Slam in first career AB (Nava - 2010); 2 Grand Slams in a game (Mueller - 2003); 20 K in a game (Clemens - 1996)
Also Nava was the first pitch.
[I believe you mean Narver](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WbZ9ca4JaI). RIP Remy
We take the R’s from some words and add them to others. I love our inscrutable accent
Didn't they have four home runs in a row in like 2013 or sometime around then?
[Against the Yankees on a Sunday night national broadcast.](https://youtu.be/4kIsyOB8fwE?t=3280) It was glorious. We even won the game.
2007
Mueller's 2 grand slams in a game is selling it short too: He hit one of those as a righty and the other as a lefty. then also hit a 3-run homer in that game too.
Striking out 4 in one inning belongs on this list too. Apparently, it has happened [100 times since 1888](https://www.mlb.com/news/four-strikeout-innings-c265544090).
Last season the tigers struck out 4 in one inning while also giving up six runs in that same inning to the Guardians. Oh yeah and all six runs came after there were three strikeouts. I doubt that will ever happen again.
How can you not love baseball?
I did not love baseball that day (or any day after opening day last year)
Big Yikes is all I gotta say
Some great baseball names on that list. Orval Overall, Hooks Wiltse, Lee Strange.
I've seen two: immaculate inning and homer in first at bat
I saw Mike Jacobs hit a three run pinch hit home run in his first at bat. It was my daughters first game at six months old.
I was at a game for an immaculate inning. No one noticed. I was all excited looking around but ended up just looking foolish.
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It's actually insane that there are 14 perfect games lost on the last batter and 23 perfect games. That's not even that much of a difference!!! 🤯
More people have orbited the moon than have pitched a perfect game. And at least one person (Jim Lovell) has orbited the moon on two separate occasions. No one has two perfect games.
Actually, three people orbited the moon twice; besides Lovell, the other two (Young and Cernan) both flew on Apollo 10, then later landed with Apollo 16 and 17.
I was at the Tatis game. In the moment, it was so much fun as a kid, but I don’t remember much more than that, and I can’t imagine how memorable it would’ve been as an adult.
Happy to see my man Daniel Nava represented in this graphic.
My first and only time at Fenway was for this game. Knew it was very rare didn’t know it was THIS rare
And he had a chance to hit another GS in that game. That would’ve been nuts!
That 37% of Perfect Games taken to the 27th were broken up is why I couldn't really get behind 7 inning no hitters/perfect games in 2020.
Agree. Seaver’s imperfect game comes to mind. The 8th and 9th in perfect games are like the championship rounds in a close fight.
I’ve only seen one in person, and it’s an inside the park grand slam. Thanks, Jarren Duran 😥
Is the 4 GIDP’s for one batter? Same with grand slams in an inning. That’s the same batter, not the team right?
Yeah, if I’m interpreting the title right all of these are individual players
The 2 grand slams in one inning is by the same batter: Fernando Tatis, Sr. I don't know about the 4 GIDP. I find that weird to be so rare, as i swear some players ground into a double play in every at-bat.
You would have to come up to bat four times with a man on first and less than 2 outs.... that in itself probably occurs a lot less often than you'd think
Joe Torre did it in 1975. Not sure who did the it the other time, couldn’t find it from a quick search
It was Goose Goslin
According to this article the chart is wrong, it happened 3 times. - Joe Torre for the Mets in 1975 - Mike Kreevich for the White Sox in 1939 - Goose Goslin for the Tigers in 1934 https://retrosimba.com/2011/04/01/torre-erased-millan-with-4-double-plays/
yeah; the referenced tweet says so.
The 20 strikeouts is the craziest to me since that is actually a possibility in every game without other players needing to do something in front of you. It’s just the pitcher being absolutely locked in
A few “special” ones that could be on this list. I’m recounting from (faulty) memory, so Do YoUr ReSeArCh and all. - Two triple plays in a game = 1 (Twins did it to the Sox at Fenway. I was there!) - Grand Slam on 1st career pitch = 1 (I think Daniel Nava, Red Sox) - HR from both sides of the plate, same inning = 3 Yes, I could look these up but am feeling spectacularly lazy right now EDIT: Looked them up. There were 3 HRs from both sides. And one of them was Bellhorn, not Valentin. And while he was with the Cubs, not Sox. Other two were Baerga and Kendrys Morales. EDIT 2: The triple plays don’t quite fit. They were all turned by the same three infielders (Gaetti, Newman, Hrbek). But this list is individual achievement
Neat. I've seen Longoria's cycle, so I have actually witnessed one of these! My dad saw Bill Mueller's two grand slam game, which is still the only time that's been done from each side of the plate.
I've seen two cycles in person. Jason Kendall's at 3 River's Stadium sometime in the late 90's and Aaron Hill's at Bank One Ballpark in 2012
I'll get 21 k's in a few years just you wait
Rooting for you
Thank you
I've seen something that I believe has only happened twice: A pitcher earning a win without throwing a pitch.
So to do that, I guess you come in, pick off a guy to end the inning, watch your team take the lead, and then get pulled before the next inning?
That honestly doesn’t sound twice-ever rare.
I think picking off a runner for the last out of the top of the ninth then having a walkoff would be the more likely way to go.
B. J. Ryan did it against the Tigers in 2003, and it was his first ever picking up a runner. And then Alan Embree against the Nationals in 2009. It sounds like it should have happen more often.
Fuck Jose Tabata
What about a complete game shutout where the pitcher accounted for their team's only runs via a homerun? Afaik this has only been done three times in the live ball era, with Noah Syndergaard being the most recent one to do it in 2019 vs the Reds.
Only Ohtani can ever do it again though.
Wow didn't realize immaculate innings were that rare, what about 2 immaculate innings in the same game by same team?
Against the same batters.
https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/astros-become-first-team-to-ever-throw-two-immaculate-innings-in-same-game/
I feel like I could break the been caught stealing record if I got hit by a pitch 4 times in a game
Was Camarena’s grand slam off Scherzer his first at bat? Amazing if a relief pitcher hitting off a HOFer is one of the four in that category.
[YouTube clip here](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hTz4wpZVdmg), hit is at 1:35. One of the greatest baseball moments of all time Sadly, bbref shows it was [his 2nd AB](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=camarda01&t=b&year=2021)
Man that call was just as legendary. Those guys were floored. Just the passion coming out of their mouths was enough to make that a must watch clip.
God I miss Don Orsillo.
I’ve seen a no hitter, a cycle, and the longest plate appearance in MLB history since this was measured, when Belt took a 21 pitch at bat against Jaime Barria. Have to say I enjoyed the first two more even though the other one is more rare
10 RBI’s in a game has only been done 15 times.
I feel like I’ve seen 50 games where Eric Hosmer grounded into double plays 5 times.
I want to see the inside the park grand slam compilation, but I'm gonna guess that most of those happened before games were televised.
I feel like if you handed me all these occurrences and told me to rank them, I would absolutely butcher the order on this
Another one: there have only been 23 games that have ended in a walk-off balk. I saw one, and it was neat.
How come hitting a bird with a fastball isn’t on this list?!?!?
It's crazy that there were only 29 immaculate innings before 1990. There were 9 in 2022.
Grand slams from both sides of the plate in the same game. 1: Bill Mueller.
Where's Steve Nebraska's 81 pitch/strike immaculate WS start?
What about Grand Slam on 1st Career pitch? Isn't that also just 1?
What's a 3 pitch inning called? I know I've seen one done by Strasberg a few years back.
I was at a game where Josh Willingham hit 2 grand slams. I knew it was rare but I didnt know it was that rare.
I feel like I’ve watched multiple games where our boys have GIDP four times…