Khris Davis hit three home runs Tuesday night as the Athletics beat the Rangers 8-5. Christina Kahrl discusses the records set by Davis and his teammate, Danny Valencia by completing this feat so close together:
Three-homer days aren’t routine affairs as-is, so seeing Khris Davis rip Cole Hamels for a pair of dingers and then win the game with a walk-off slam is several shades of happy, not least if you’re an A’s fan already spoiled by seeing third baseman Danny Valencia do it on Sunday. Those two are now third on the goofy list of “fewest days between three-homer days for teammates” behind Jeromy Burnitz and Richie Sexson doing it on the same day in 2001 (no, really), and Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig doing it on consecutive days in the ridiculously halcyon homeriffic season of 1930. You might be forgiven if you’re more inclined to put Valencia and Davis with Sexson and Burnitz in the category of “unfortunately named buddy cop duos” than “guys doing stuff you associated with the Babe and the Iron Horse.”
They didn’t just crush three homers, they’re the first two guys to each hit three homers over 400 feet in the same game this season. Check out who else has done that recently and you get an even greater sense of cognitive dissonance, because Valencia was a guy the A’s grabbed off waivers, and Davis is a slugger who still has to sort of remind people that his huge second half last season is why he wound up hitting 27 bombs last year for a Brewers team people had already forgotten about by July.
Cool.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/1TnEHFh
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