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Cards’ 9th straight multi-HR game ties MLB record
- Updated: August 20, 2016
PHILADELPHIA — Jedd Gyorko’s game-tying blast off Phillies closer Jeanmar Gomez in the ninth inning was the Cardinals’ second homer of the game. Notable? Absolutely. But even more so when it marks the club’s ninth straight multi-homer game.
St. Louis became the fifth team to go yard at least twice in a Major League-record nine consecutive games when Gyorko followed Randal Grichuk’s second-inning solo shot in the Cardinals’ 4-3, 11-inning win Friday night at Citizens Bank Park.
“I didn’t even know we were close to a record,” Gyorko said. “I think it just shows what this lineup is capable of. I’m a big believer that hitting is contagious. The guys in front of you are hitting the ball well, I think that just goes on right down the lineup. One through nine, and 10, 11, 12 the way it’s been on this team, we’ve got some guys that can really put the ball out of the ballpark.”
The 2009 Yankees, 1987 and ’96 Orioles and ’62 Indians also hit multiple homers in nine straight games.
It was only fitting that the Cards tied the game with the long ball. The shoe could have only fit better had Grichuk sent one over the wall rather than off it …
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