I was out last night as Randy Sabia invited me to a New Britian Rock Cats game. The game was uneventful, but there was three hours of terrific baseball talk with Randy, Jim Storer, Bill O’Sullivan and Bill Ryczek, author of two books on post civil-war baseball.
I’m looking at the boxscores this morning and notice that the Tigers threw a five hitter against the Yankees. Bonderman went seven, striking out 6 and walking one. The only problem, of course, is that all five hits were solo HR! Meanwhile, Jose Contreras was pitching like a man who had been reunited with his family. Eight innings, 7 K, 1 BB.
Bonderman has now given up 41 HR in 263 career innings pitched. That number is going to need to come down if he’s going to have a successful major league career.
I asked this on my blog, but I’ll ask it here since it gets so much more traffic: when was the last time something like this happened? And what was the most hits by a team where all of them were home runs?
First one with the correct answer gets an attaboy/attagirl.
Oh yeah, they were all SOLO home runs, too. Even cooler.