Has there ever been a player who hit an inside-the-park walk off grandslam home run that also helped him complete the cycle? If that ever happened it would be like the holy grail of hitting achievement.
2007-05-14 04:08:35 · 6 answers · asked by Oxhead 3 in Sports ➔ Baseball
There's only been one walk-off inside-the-park grand slam in the history of major league baseball - Roberto Clemente did it on July 25, 1956 against the Cubs. Unfortunately, it didn't complete a cycle for him.
2007-05-14 04:16:05 · answer #1 · answered by Craig S 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The only player ever to hit a walkoff inside the park grandslam was Roberto Clemente.
7/25/56
Pirates defeat Cubs 9-8.
It was one of Clemente's 7 HRs that year.
I can't find the count, but I was able to figure out that it was not done with 2 outs (I think 0 outs actually).
It did not complete the cycle.
Honus Wagner (another Pirate), had 5 career inside the park grand slams, which is the record.
** Found it.
There were no outs, and it was a 0-0 pitch. The pitcher, Jim Brosnan, was brought in to face Clemente. According to the link below, Pittsburgh's third base coach and manage Bobby Bragan held up his arms at third for Clemente to stop, but he kept going. Oddly enough, Clemente had hit a 3 run walk-off homer 4 days earlier, on the road against the reds, to win the game 4-3.
Just a little aside I was thinking about with Clemente. I'm not a big fan of moneyball or sabermetrics, and Clemente is the kind of guy I like to use to make my point. Clemente's K/BB ratio was horrid by sabermetrics standards, as was his OBP (only 3 times did he have an OBP of .400 or above). Not known as a power hitter (240 career HRs, hit 29 once and topped 20 only two other times, both for 23), the sabermetricians of the world would have you believe Clemente wasn't really all that valuable. Considering he won a few batting titles, and even won NL MVP honors (despite having a career that spanned almost identical years as Aaron and Mays), I don't really think that sabermetrics holds up here. It's not that OBP is a horrible stat, it's just that there are far more valuable stats out there, AVG being one of them, that tell the true tale of the tape.
2007-05-14 04:38:42 · answer #2 · answered by Jimi L 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
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2016-10-15 22:50:52 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One baserunner swiping 3 bases in one inning. Read this post on Pete Rose who accomplished the feat with the Phillies in 1980.
2007-05-14 04:18:14 · answer #4 · answered by BloggingFool 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
the giants winning a world series. i mean isnt about time.
2007-05-14 17:37:55 · answer #5 · answered by Graham A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-05-14 04:12:59 · answer #6 · answered by Andrew E 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋