Happy Cinco de Mayo. The most fitting way for the Weird and Wild column to observe this day of fiestas is … with a look at the most loco game of the season. jaysonst recaps last Saturday in the baseball-fever capital of the world, Mexico City.
From the third to the seventh inning of this game, these teams played 10 half-innings. They hit at least one home runAll they missed was the top of the fifth and both halves of the sixth. In another stretch, between the third and fifth innings, there were 15 runs“It all happened so fast,” Agler said. “I’m looking at my scorebook now. I hadn’t really, like, taken a good look at it since that night — and it’s hilarious. I mean, it’s just this colorful collection of baseball insanity.
That led physics professor Alan Nathan to start calculating up a storm — and estimate, on Twitter, that the conditions in this game were adding an astoundingUsing my trajectory calculator, I took a look at fly ball distances with EV=102 mph, LA=30 deg. I compared sea level with Mexico City , and found a difference of 40 ft !Agler has a signature home run call: “This one’s gonna go.” And it came in handy!He used it so much in this game, he was getting a little tired of it himself.
He paused for a moment and counted up all the home runs that had been hit at that point — six of them. He laughed again. He’d basically contracted a case of play-by-play vertigo. It happens. “We know what’s happening here at this point,” he said. “So you go, ‘He popped it up.’ But then you’re like, ‘Oh, yeah. I forgot. We’re here.’ And then you see it, and you’re like, ‘This ball is gonna go over the frickin’ fence.’ And it did.”• The Giants hit five home runs in this game —Brandon Crawford’s Giants were kept busy with home run trots of their own.
• Counting the next day, in the same stadium, the Giants wound up smoking eight home runs in two games …. It was the first time in the history of their franchise they’d hit eight in two games and won neither. It was also the first time the Padres had ever allowed eight in two games and lost neither.
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