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To trot or not to trot? HR delayed by pain
- Updated: August 22, 2016
SEATTLE — Chris Carter loves hitting at Safeco Field, but usually when he hits a home run, he knows it’s gone. Take, for example, the 465-foot blast the Brewers’ slugger slammed in Friday night’s series opener between Milwaukee and the Mariners. That one was the longest long ball in the 17-year history of this ballpark.
In the Brewers’ 7-6 win on Sunday, Carter came up with another round-tripper, and — among his 18 career homers vs. Seattle — this dinger was perhaps his masterpiece. The two-run tater tied the game with one out in the ninth inning.
If only he had any clue that it really did leave the yard.
Trailing 6-4 and batting with Hernan Perez on second base and Mariners right-hander Tom Wilhelmsen on the mound, Carter blasted a ball to deep right-center field. Late-inning defensive replacement Shawn O’Malley chased it from his position in right field and leapt at the wall to try to haul it in. O’Malley lunged and stabbed his glove at it. The crowd of 35,833 roared. O’Malley fell to the warning track dirt, apparently shaken up from the effort, but he didn’t show that the …
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