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Baseball Musings
May 07, 2008
Exciting Night in Los Angeles

How often do you get to see an inside the park home run and a steal of home in the same game?

For the second straight night, DeWitt homered off Met pitching, with Tuesday night's round-tripper a game-deciding, inside-the-park, two-run homer that handed the Mets a 5-4 loss.

DeWitt, who hit his first big-league homer off Oliver Perez Monday night, finished with four RBI, doing what the Mets failed to do - drive in runs in key spots.

Despite Luis Castillo snapping an 0-for-18 streak with an RBI single and Moises Alou's steal of home, the Mets stranded 10 runners over the first five innings, missing several chances to blow open an early 4-1 lead.

DeWitt would be languishing in the minors if not for the injuries to the projected Dodgers third basemen. At what point do you tell Nomar to not bother coming back from the DL?


Posted by David Pinto at 09:02 AM | Games | TrackBack (0)
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I've been trying to figure out whether Alou is the oldest to steal home. The competition for the title is Paul Molitor. Does anybody have the date of his last steal of home? It would have to be in his last season, 1998.

Posted by: Steve H at May 7, 2008 11:55 AM

A poster at NY Sports Dog supplies this box.

So Molitor was 41 years, 8 months, and 27 days old; Alou was 41 years, 10 months, and 3 days old.

This is based on the assumption that the four men cited in this article from the previous time Alou stole home two years ago - him, Molly, Dave Concepcion, and Minnie Minoso - are in fact the only men 40 years or older to steal home. With stealing home being an unofficial stat, there's no definitive answer. But it looks like Moises made history last night.

Posted by: Steve H at May 7, 2008 01:20 PM

At what point do you tell Nomar to not bother coming back from the DL?

Never, if you're Ned Colletti or Joe Torre.

"(Garciaparra) was playing well when he left," Torre said. "He really didn't do anything wrong, and he got hurt. I think he certainly needs an opportunity to pick that up."

Posted by: Rob McMillin at May 7, 2008 11:49 PM
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