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The week in interesting & unusual stats: Don’t leave early!
- Updated: May 15, 2016
9:32 PM ET
Each Sunday in this space we bring you some of our favorite quirks, oddities and unusual plays from the week in baseball. Many thanks to our friends at Baseball Reference and the Elias Sports Bureau for research assistance.
The most notable extra-inning heroics came from Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz, who on Saturday hit a tying triple in the ninth and a walk-off double in the 11th after homering earlier in the game. We covered some Ortiz nuggets here, but he’s also the first player this year to miss the cycle by the single (teammate Mookie Betts was one of three to do it last season), and the first player with a homer, a triple, and a walk-off double in a game since Wally Westlake did it for the Pirates on June 14, 1949.
Kendrys Morales brought an end to Sunday’s game with a two-run, two-out homer in the 13th. Kansas City’s only other 13-inning interleague win via walk-off homer came on June 14, 2001, when Mike Sweeney’s solo shot beat the Cardinals. And if we count two outs in the 13th as being later than one out in the 13th, it was the latest walk-off homer allowed by the Braves since Manny Trillo of the Phillies …
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