[lex24]

Giants won 3-0 last night, Bailey hit a three-run walkoff home run. Harrison pitched very well. 

Attendance of 37,110 for a Pittsburgh Pirates Friday night game...not bad. Maybe the fans are returning...

Fireworks……

I had to chuckle when I read a couple of headlines trumpeting that Bailey had set an MLB record.  I knew it couldn't be 6 HRs in one game b/c the score was 3-0, LOL.  Turns out he was the first catcher to a) hit a walkoff HR, b) catch a shutout and c) participate in a double play.  

Records are records, and what he did was impressive, but jeez, kind of a stretch for the stats guys....

Yep.  A stretch that only Rosemary Woods could equal…

Baseball loves these kind of stats. The games been played for 150 plus years. Anytime you’re the first to do something in baseball it’s worthy of a note. I don’t think they’re going to enshrine the event in Cooperstown. But it’s a fun little factoid.

I think the “record” involved not just any DP, but a Lawrence Welk DP. A 1 and a 2 and a 3…..

Both the double play and the HR came in the 9th. Reminded me just a little bit of a Barry Bonds game - tie game, he threw out a guy at the plate in the ninth inning and then hit a home run in the bottom of the inning to win it.

[lex24]

Giants won 3-0 last night, Bailey hit a three-run walkoff home run. Harrison pitched very well. 

Attendance of 37,110 for a Pittsburgh Pirates Friday night game...not bad. Maybe the fans are returning...

Fireworks……

I had to chuckle when I read a couple of headlines trumpeting that Bailey had set an MLB record.  I knew it couldn't be 6 HRs in one game b/c the score was 3-0, LOL.  Turns out he was the first catcher to a) hit a walkoff HR, b) catch a shutout and c) participate in a double play.  

Records are records, and what he did was impressive, but jeez, kind of a stretch for the stats guys....

Yep.  A stretch that only Rosemary Woods could equal…

Baseball loves these kind of stats. The games been played for 150 plus years. Anytime you’re the first to do something in baseball it’s worthy of a note. I don’t think they’re going to enshrine the event in Cooperstown. But it’s a fun little factoid.

I think the “record” involved not just any DP, but a Lawrence Welk DP. A 1 and a 2 and a 3…..

Both the double play and the HR came in the 9th. Reminded me just a little bit of a Barry Bonds game - tie game, he threw out a guy at the plate in the ninth inning and then hit a home run in the bottom of the inning to win it.