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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Monday, June 23, 2008
Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners on Monday night hit the first grand slam by an American League pitcher in 37 years when he connected against fellow Venezuelan Johan Santana of the New York Mets on Monday night… It was the first grand slam by an American pitcher since Steve Dunning of the Cleveland Indians off Diego Segui of the Oakland Athletics on May 11, 1971.
Followed later by: Mariners’ Hernandez leaves with leg injury
Seattle Mariners pitcher Felix Hernandez left Monday’s game against the New York Mets with an undisclosed left leg injury. While covering home on a wild pitch, Hernandez had his left ankle crashed into by a sliding Carlos Beltran, knocking the righthander to the ground with two outs in the fifth inning.
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Posted: June 23, 2008 at 08:47 PM | 19 comment(s)
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I hope that he's not seriously injured.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SE1/SE1196907091.shtml
Prominently featured in Ball Four.
First and second, two out, EASY grounder to David Wright - who is having the all-time "I've knocked in a ton of runs while making a ton of untimely fielding misplays and failing in countless key hitting situations" season - and of course Wright just bungles it long enough to allow Bloomquist to reach first and load 'em up.
Then the announcers said this was King Felix's first pitch to him this season - and out it goes, an opposite-field grand slam. The Mets RF (Chavez?) doesn't quite reach the warning track backpedaling from shallow ground before it easily clears the fence.
And of course Felix gets hurt a couple of innings later and doesn't even get the win.
A classic star-crossed result for a pair of star-crossed teams.
Which is a real shame, since Felix was slated to go up against Peavy on Sunday.
Beltran should have his hair plugs taken away
It doesn't happen often, but it's times like these that I wish I could do the old Primer thing and post as Hank Steinbrenner.
Well, neither team is in the AL East, so I assume they'll behave like mature adults.
looks like the mariners done found their new DH
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
- and the pitcher hitting a grannie offn santana?
with the first pitch he's seen?
absolutely THE play of the year.
right next to cecil cooper pulling a lefty after micah owings was announced as pitch hitter and sending in a righty, then SKREEEEEMING because that pitcher promptly gives up the game losing homer, then SKREEEEEMING even louder about how terrible it is to give up a homer to some freaking nobody pitcher.
and harvey,
trust me on this
cecil cooper: ned yost = ned yost: TLR
i didn't think anyne could make phil garner look good.
I love the way he winked at Ichiro on his way back to the dugout, too. Nice touch.
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