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Baseball's Bizarre Opening Month Recap
Some of the stranger things that happened:
Strange But True Hall Of Fame:
• Prince Fielder, David Wright, Paul Konerko, Jose Bautista, Evan Longoria, Robinson Cano, Adrian Gonzalez, Adrian Beltre and Ryan Braun have never had a 10-homer, 32-RBI month in any month of their careers. Jose Abreu just did that -- in his first month in the big leagues.
• And, finally, what could possibly have been stranger but truer than this: When the Tigers threw a seven-run inning at the Twins on April 25, all three outs in the inning came off the bat of the same hitter -- some guy named Miguel Cabrera.
Strange But True Pitching:
• No pitcher in nearly three years had found a way to give up four earned runs in a game in which he forgot to allow a hit. So what were the odds that the Blue Jays' Brandon Morrow (2.2-0-4-4-8-1) and the Tigers' Jose Ortega (1.1-0-4-4-4-1) would manage to do that ON THE SAME DAY last Saturday? Morrow will be happy to hear that Edward Mujica has walked eight of the past 293 hitters he's faced.
• And I don't know if this qualifies as a "pitching" feat. But Red Sox utility dynamo Mike Carp made his historic pitching debut last Thursday against the Yankees and became the first pitcher in the past 90 years to walk five hitters in one inning. Meanwhile, in the other dugout, was a fellow named Hiroki Kuroda, who has made 184 starts over the past seven seasons -- and never unintentionally walked five hitters in any of them.
Strange But True Hitting:
• Victor Martinez stole a base this season before Billy Hamilton. ... Hamilton hit a homer before Billy Butler, Adrian Beltre or Nick Markakis. ... Justin Verlander (0-for-his previous 26) had a multihit game before Allen Craig. ... Madison Bumgarner thumped a homer in AT&T Park before Pablo Sandoval or Hunter Pence. ... And Gio Gonzalez hit a home run before the Yankees -- all of them.
• Jhonny Peralta really did commit an error April 16 -- on a ball hit by Wily Peralta.
• And, finally, the strangest but truest "injury" of the month: Carlos Gonzalez had to leave a game early April 2 -- after swallowing his chewing tobacco ... and, um, not feeling so hot. Just one more reason not to chew, kids.
The rest: http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10862828/strange-true-mlb-feats-april
• Prince Fielder, David Wright, Paul Konerko, Jose Bautista, Evan Longoria, Robinson Cano, Adrian Gonzalez, Adrian Beltre and Ryan Braun have never had a 10-homer, 32-RBI month in any month of their careers. Jose Abreu just did that -- in his first month in the big leagues.
• And, finally, what could possibly have been stranger but truer than this: When the Tigers threw a seven-run inning at the Twins on April 25, all three outs in the inning came off the bat of the same hitter -- some guy named Miguel Cabrera.
Strange But True Pitching:
• No pitcher in nearly three years had found a way to give up four earned runs in a game in which he forgot to allow a hit. So what were the odds that the Blue Jays' Brandon Morrow (2.2-0-4-4-8-1) and the Tigers' Jose Ortega (1.1-0-4-4-4-1) would manage to do that ON THE SAME DAY last Saturday? Morrow will be happy to hear that Edward Mujica has walked eight of the past 293 hitters he's faced.
• And I don't know if this qualifies as a "pitching" feat. But Red Sox utility dynamo Mike Carp made his historic pitching debut last Thursday against the Yankees and became the first pitcher in the past 90 years to walk five hitters in one inning. Meanwhile, in the other dugout, was a fellow named Hiroki Kuroda, who has made 184 starts over the past seven seasons -- and never unintentionally walked five hitters in any of them.
Strange But True Hitting:
• Victor Martinez stole a base this season before Billy Hamilton. ... Hamilton hit a homer before Billy Butler, Adrian Beltre or Nick Markakis. ... Justin Verlander (0-for-his previous 26) had a multihit game before Allen Craig. ... Madison Bumgarner thumped a homer in AT&T Park before Pablo Sandoval or Hunter Pence. ... And Gio Gonzalez hit a home run before the Yankees -- all of them.
• Jhonny Peralta really did commit an error April 16 -- on a ball hit by Wily Peralta.
• And, finally, the strangest but truest "injury" of the month: Carlos Gonzalez had to leave a game early April 2 -- after swallowing his chewing tobacco ... and, um, not feeling so hot. Just one more reason not to chew, kids.
The rest: http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10862828/strange-true-mlb-feats-april
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