That Inning
May 8, 2007 by overcaffeinated
Am so excited after seeing my first ever professional baseball match and what better way than in the most famous league in the world. I say famous, as it is not necessarily “the best” league - this tends to belong to Cuba and Japan. Then to see “that inning”, just made it a glorious introduction to Major League Baseball. The following is from the Giants website match review:
“Upon returning to the Giants dugout following his second homer, bullpen catcher Billy Hayes approached (Bengie) Molina. As Molina related, “He came up to me and said, ‘Did you know it’s the same inning?’ It surprised me when he said that.”
Molina can be excused for feeling stunned. It’s an understandable reaction, since the last Giant to hit two home runs in one inning was Hall of Famer Willie McCovey, who did so on June 27, 1977, at Cincinnati. The Giants had played 4,696 games since that evening and Monday night, when Molina’s big fifth inning propelled them to a 9-4 victory over the New York Mets.
Abetted by Rich Aurilia’s three-run homer, the Giants scored all of their runs in the fifth, marking the first time since the fourth inning in Atlanta on April 28, 2004, that they amassed that many.”
Check out the video highlights of that 9-run fifth inning on this page - second video link near the top of the page.
