There is one baseball team whose name is synonymous with records: 27 World Series Titles, 39 Pennants, 39 Hall of Famers, 17 Retired Numbers, and the list continues. That team would be the New York Yankees. And they continued yesterday racking up the records by hitting 3 grand slams in one game--a feat that in over a hundred years of baseball had never been accomplished. (For non-baseball fans, a grand slam is a home run with bases loaded.)
It appeared at the beginning of the game that the Oakland Athletics were going to sweep the three game series as they quickly jumped out in front with a 7-1 lead, sending starting pitching Philip Hughes to the showers and many fans home. However, in the fifth inning things began to change as Robinson Cano hit the first grand slam of the day, following by Russell Martin in the 8th, and Curtis Granderson in the 8th.
By the 9th inning the Yankees had a 22-8 lead over the A's causing Jorge Posada, a career catcher, to tell Joe Giradi that he was going out to play 2nd base so that the regular players could get some rest.
As the great Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra once said, "It ain't over till it's over." And that was never so true as yesterday. Final score? 22-9. (And YES, that is a baseball, not football score!)
Yanks rout A's with MLB record three slams
Just want to remind you there are still a full game behind Boston. ;)
ReplyDeleteThe season isn't over. Remember Yogi's words. ;) There's still a good month of baseball left.
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