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“It was one of the most dramatic displays of hitting ever seen at Shibe Park, surpassing in some respects the sensational feats of the old Yankees against the Athletics,” Baumgartner said. With Blue Jays right-hander Chase Anderson on the mound, Brett Gardner, DJ LeMahieu and Luke Voit went back-to-back-to-back. Anderson recovered with a strikeout on Aaron Hicks, before giving up two more homers, to Giancarlo Stanton and Gleyber Torres, back-to-back. Two of the five power outbursts included an inside the park home run.
Houston broke a franchise record and tied a Major League mark in Tuesday’s 13-4 win over Boston, tagging Red Sox starter Nathan Eovaldi for five homers in the second inning to give the club a hefty 9-1 lead. The Astros finished the night with 15 hits and were responsible for six of the game’s eight home runs. The five home runs by one pitcher in one inning tied a major league record and was the third time it’s happened in history, with all occurrences somehow coming in the last five years.
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It started innocently enough with a Catfish Hunter walk to C Early Battey, followed by an infield fly out for 2B Bernie Allen. That brought pinch hitter Rich Rollins to the plate, and he hit the inning’s first homer . Lead-off hitter SS Zoilo Versalles followed with his fifth homer of the year – and Paul Lindblad replaced Hunter on the mound.
The next long ball came courtesy of Kyle Tucker, who made right fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. scale the wall as the ball sailed over the Astros’ bullpen for a two-run homer. In his Fenway Park debut, New England native Jeremy Peña then went back to back for his seventh Major League homer and Houston’s third of the inning. But Eovaldi lost Tuesday night’s game on those long balls, as the hard contact he’d been allowing all season caught up to him on one of the warmer nights at Fenway Park early this season. Eovaldi has struggled to keep the ball in the ballpark so far this season. He’s already given up nine home runs in just seven games, after having allowed only 15 in 32 games in 2021. Eovaldi finished the day having allowed nine runs on eight hits in 1.2 innings.
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Even after the second inning ended, the hits kept coming for the Astros. Their 15 on Tuesday matched a season high -- they also hit 15 vs. the Twins in the completion of a suspended game on Thursday -- and their 13 runs tied another season high . Estimated delivery dates - opens in a new window or tab include seller's handling time, origin ZIP Code, destination ZIP Code and time of acceptance and will depend on shipping service selected and receipt of cleared payment. On Tuesday night at Fenway Park, Nathan Eovaldi made history – and the Red Sox’ No. 1 starter wasn’t on the right side of it. In a sequence that could only be described as shocking, Eovaldi allowed five home runs in the second inning as the Red Sox were rolled over by the Astros in a 13-4 beating.
“The guys didn't like the taste of losing last night, and so they came out ready to play today. I mean, they come out ready every day, but they were especially ready today because they knew we had a tough guy on the mound over there."
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This lineup is terrifying, and they’re getting hot at the right time with the postseason right around the corner. Only nine players in baseball history have hit more than one home run after the 9th inning and they are listed up above, in the Most Home Runs in the Extra Innings research set. Visit the box score of each record setting game to see if those extra inning home runs resulted in a winning effort, or losing effort.
He joins a select class that includes Chase Anderson and Michael Blazek. Anderson gave up his five home runs in the fourth inning of a September 2020 contest; Blazek, conversely, surrendered his five-pack in the third inning of a July 2017 appearance. "It's like you almost can't believe it, and we'll take it," Washington manager Dusty Baker said. "I said coming in here I wanted to get a win and a knock. So the guys showed up today, put an ungodly amount of runs up there, 15 runs, oh man, what a pitcher's best friend." We invite you to use our commenting platform to engage in insightful conversations about issues in our community. When it was all said and done, Eovaldi gave up an absurd 1,970 feet worth of home runs in the second inning, an average of 394 feet per homer.
Will usually ship within 2 business days of receiving cleared payment. Two batters later, after Yuli Gurriel reached on Franchy Cordero’s error at first base, Kyle Tucker went deep to right, where Jackie Bradley Jr. jumped on top of the wall and stood there as he watched it go out. Asked if he thought he might be tipping his pitches, Eovaldi didn’t rule it out and said he’d have to look it over, but he and Cora attributed it more to pitch location and mix. Eovaldi was aggressively attacking the strike zone but wasn’t fooling an equally aggressive and talented Astros lineup. It was a stunning series of events for any pitcher, let alone an All-Star caliber pitcher of Eovaldi’s quality. The Astros, who have won 12 of their last 13 games, don't throw a ton of strikeouts, but are, as Jake Odorizzi says, "an outs staff."
Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a record book full of baseball milestones for home runs in an inning — including most most home runs in any given inning and most home runs in any extra inning. Eovaldi is among a number of Red Sox veterans struggling in the early going. Boston, which rallied to defeat the Astros 6-3 on Monday in the series opener, is now 14-22, a half-game out of last place in the AL East.
One of the five-homer innings included two home runs by one player in the inning. Pitchers have contributed HRs in two of the five five-homer innings. The Cincinnati Reds have been the victims of four of the five five-homer innings. A strong offensive performance is not exactly a shock for the 2022 Astros. Right-hander Tyler Danish relieved Eovaldi and retired Tucker to end the inning.
"We didn't get any swings and misses. Obviously, it's surprising. Now, we just have to move onto the next one." Click here to read about The Baseball Reliquary - baseball's most "out there" organization - dedicated to the game's character and characters. Who is the only pitcher to lead the NL and AL in shutouts - in the same season?. The five-homer innings have featured the scoring of 43 runs – the fewest at six, the most at 12.
Andre Dawson, Jeff King and Willie McCovey are part of a unique club — all three of those National League sluggers hit two home runs in the same inning of the same game, twice each during their respective careers. When the bats are hot in the Space City, things go well for the Astros and with a 13-3 lead in the fifth inning against the Red Sox, it's safe to say the offense has been clicking. Among the other to hit a home run in the second include rookie Jeremy Pena, who had the hardest-hit home run of the bunch with an exit velocity of 110.5 MPH. "They did an outstanding job hitting mistakes," Red Sox manager Alex Cora said after the 13-4 loss.
The last team to hit five home runs in an inning off of one pitcher was the Yankees, who did it against Chase Anderson and the Toronto Blue Jays in 2020. Kyle Tucker hit the furthest ball of the inning, a 413-foot shot over the Astros bullpen in straightaway right field. Hot hitting Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez got the home run hitting barrage started as he hit his 12th home run of the season. The first-ever five-home run MLB inning took place in New York on June 6, 1930, as the sixth-place Giants (20-24 record) surprised the league-leading Reds (29-15) by a 17-3 score, plating all 17 runs in the first five innings. One of the five-homer innings was kept alive by three fielding errors.
Delivery time is estimated using our proprietary method which is based on the buyer's proximity to the item location, the shipping service selected, the seller's shipping history, and other factors. Eovaldi described his cutters as lazy and his curveballs and sliders as not very good. The Astros ate up a variety of Eovaldi’s pitches for homers, not just one – two via his four-seamer, two off his cutter and another off his curveball. Eovaldi threw just five pitches in the first inning before allowing five home runs in the second. He gave up 15 home runs all of last season but has allowed 14 this year for the most in the majors.
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