Inside-the-park Home Run
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Biking to baseball games is what B4B does. It’s kind of our thing. We’ve biked to several Rockies games at Coors Field. So yesterday, I took advantage of the beautiful day in the Twin Cities to bike to the awesome Target Field to catch the Twins and the Yankees. Seriously, biking to a Sunday day game might be one of the most enjoyable things you can do. It’s a great experience. It helps beat traffic out of downtown as well. We obviously recommend it.
The Yankees shut out the Twins 3-0, and Mariano Rivera got career save number 592 with a quick and easy 1-2-3 ninth inning. He seriously made the bottom of the Twins line-up look like little leaguers. It wasn’t even fair. A-Rod came back from the DL. Joe Mauer played first base. Jeter kept hitting. Great game.
But anyway, the thing I am going to remember the most is Curtis Granderson’s inside-the-park home run. I’ve been to hundreds of baseball games in person, and it’s the first one I’ve seen in person. I saw Mike Sweeney steal home against Andy Petite and the Yankees in 2002. I saw Jim Edmonds make THE catch in 1997 in Kansas City for the Anaheim Angels. Those were pretty cool and very memorable; but in my opinion, the inside-the-park home run is the most exciting play in baseball.
An argument can be made for the triple play. They are seemingly equally rare, but I can’t see using the rarity argument for determining the most exciting play in baseball. Inside-the-park home runs usually involve the ball taking some sort of bad hop away from the outfielder, the outfielder chasing after the ball that is rolling away from them, and a speedy runner flying around the bases. There is so much suspense. Is the runner going to make it all the way around? Triple plays and stealing home are usually much quicker than inside-the-park round trippers too.
There were 3 inside-the-park home runs hit over the weekend. Jose Altuve hit his first major league home run without the ball leaving the field. Trent Oeltjen also got the ball past Dexter Fowler and got one against the Rockies. It was a busy weekend for outfielders chasing down misplayed balls. According to trusty Wikipedia, there were 975 inside-the-park homers from 1951-2000. Baseball-Reference has a list of inside-the-park home run leaders, and all of the top 50 retired prior to 1937. Jesse Burkett is the leader with 55, and Ty Cobb is fourth with 46. Also, some guy named Cy Young gave up the most inside-the-park home runs with 54.
I don’t know if all 54 inside-the-park homers given up by Cy Young were as suspenseful as Granderson’s yesterday. If so, turn of the century baseball fans got one hell of a show. What are the odds B4B sees one in person next season?
Biking to baseball games is what B4B does. It’s kind of our thing. We’ve biked to several Rockies games at Coors Field. So yesterday, I took advantage of the beautiful day in the Twin Cities to bike to the awesome Target Field to catch the Twins and the Yankees. Seriously, biking to a Sunday day game might be one of the most enjoyable things you can do. It’s a great experience. It helps beat traffic out of downtown as well. We obviously recommend it.
The Yankees shut out the Twins 3-0, and Mariano Rivera got career save number 592 with a quick and easy 1-2-3 ninth inning. He seriously made the bottom of the Twins line-up look like little leaguers. It wasn’t even fair. A-Rod came back from the DL. Joe Mauer played first base. Jeter kept hitting. Great game.
But anyway, the thing I am going to remember the most is Curtis Granderson’s inside-the-park home run. I’ve been to hundreds of baseball games in person, and it’s the first one I’ve seen in person. I saw Mike Sweeney steal home against Andy Petite and the Yankees in 2002. I saw Jim Edmonds make THE catch in 1997 in Kansas City for the Anaheim Angels. Those were pretty cool and very memorable; but in my opinion, the inside-the-park home run is the most exciting play in baseball.
An argument can be made for the triple play. They are seemingly equally rare, but I can’t see using the rarity argument for determining the most exciting play in baseball. Inside-the-park home runs usually involve the ball taking some sort of bad hop away from the outfielder, the outfielder chasing after the ball that is rolling away from them, and a speedy runner flying around the bases. There is so much suspense. Is the runner going to make it all the way around? Triple plays and stealing home are usually much quicker than inside-the-park round trippers too.
There were 3 inside-the-park home runs hit over the weekend. Jose Altuve hit his first major league home run without the ball leaving the field. Trent Oeltjen also got the ball past Dexter Fowler and got one against the Rockies. It was a busy weekend for outfielders chasing down misplayed balls. According to trusty Wikipedia, there were 975 inside-the-park homers from 1951-2000. Baseball-Reference has a list of inside-the-park home run leaders, and all of the top 50 retired prior to 1937. Jesse Burkett is the leader with 55, and Ty Cobb is fourth with 46. Also, some guy named Cy Young gave up the most inside-the-park home runs with 54.
I don’t know if all 54 inside-the-park homers given up by Cy Young were as suspenseful as Granderson’s yesterday. If so, turn of the century baseball fans got one hell of a show. What are the odds B4B sees one in person next season?