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The week in interesting & unusual stats (July 18-24)
- Updated: July 25, 2016
9:42 PM ET
It’s time for another edition of The Week In Wacky Walk-Offs. Thanks to our friends at Baseball Reference, Retrosheet, and the Elias Sports Bureau for research assistance.
Sunday’s action at U.S. Cellular Field was not technically a doubleheader, but that didn’t stop the White Sox from walking off twice. The last team to win the completion of a suspended game via walk-off, and then also win the regularly-scheduled game for that day via walk-off, was the Angels against the Mariners on Apr. 13-14, 1982. The first game was halted by the old American League curfew rule after 17 innings; Bob Boone’s RBI single won it in the 20th. The nightcap went 10 innings before Bobby Grich singled home Rod Carew.
Adam Eaton drove in the winning run on “Saturday” and then scored it on “Sunday”. The last player to either score or drive in a run on a walk-off play twice in a day was Alfredo Griffin of the Athletics on Aug. 28, 1986. Oakland swept a doubleheader from the Orioles with Griffin scoring on both game-winners (by Dave Kingman and Carney Lansford).
Matt Adams ended the week’s longest game Friday with a solo homer in the 16th. By inning, it tied for the latest walk-off homer this season and was the latest in Cardinals history. Adams also hit a 16th-inning homer in a 2013 game in Cincinnati, and is just the fourth player ever to hit two that late in games. …
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