Fox reported that Rafael Devers‘s grand slam was interesting in two ways. He is the youngest players to hit a grand slam in the Red Sox and Yankees rivalry. It is also the first first-inning grand slam in the rivalry since 1951.
That last fact is both true and false. It’s the last first-inning slam that counted.
6/20/1969: Yankee Joe Pepitone hit a grand slam off Mike Nagy at Fenway Park. It came in the first inning with no one out in a game called because of rain one batter later.
That was the first year I watched baseball, and saw that game on TV. Pepitone came out during the rain and tried to do a dance to make it stop. The rain kept falling and the game was postponed.
The Reds got a second grand slam from someone who is a pitcher:
Relief pitcher Michael Lorenzen continues to prove to be an invaluable weapon as a hitter off the bench for the Reds.
In the seventh inning of Saturday’s 12-3 win against the Brewers, Reds interim manager Jim Riggleman brought in Lorenzen to pinch-hit for pitcher David Hernandez with the bases loaded. Lorenzen crushed a 1-0 fastball over the left-field wall to give Cincinnati a 10-3 lead for his second home run in as many days and his third since last Sunday (in three straight at-bats).
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Lorenzen is the second Reds pitcher in a week to hit a grand slam. Anthony DeSclafani hit one on June 23 in an 11-2 win against the Cubs.
Note, that it will not go down in the record books as a pitcher hitting a home run, since Lorenzen was a pinch hitter at the time. He is four for six this season with three home runs.
from baseballmusings.com https://ift.tt/2MB3RQH
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