Baseball's Strangest Plays

[LHG]

Which begs the question why was park still in after giving up 7 runs in that inning before the second slam?

lol

This is weird to say, but . . . different era of baseball.

 

[msgkings322]

This is weird to say, but . . . different era of baseball.

It's never happened in any era before or since.

 

[LHG]

It's never happened in any era before or since.

I'm referring more to the idea that managers would leave their starters in after getting knocked around. Granted, I've not done the research to confirm my speculation, but it seems that managers pull their starters a lot faster now then they did in the 90s.

 

[msgkings322]

I'm referring more to the idea that managers would leave their starters in after getting knocked around. Granted, I've not done the research to confirm my speculation, but it seems that managers pull their starters a lot faster now then they did in the 90s.

They do, but what Tatis did is just one of those statistical outliers that should be impossible but did happen once and never will again. Like DiMaggio's 56 game streak

But your last sentence has inspired me to start a thread...

 

[pachyderm]

They do, but what Tatis did is just one of those statistical outliers that should be impossible but did happen once and never will again. Like DiMaggio's 56 game streak

But your last sentence has inspired me to start a thread...

...and so he did.

I wonder if it wasn't the, "oh well he can't make it worse..." school of thought?

Or they simply decided to save the bully for the next night?