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ShareThisRegular Season Walk-Off HR Vs. Mo Rivera
On September 18, 2009, Ichiro Suzuki joined Marco Scutaro, Bill Mueller, and Bill Selby as the only batters to hit a regular season, bottom of the 9th inning, walk-off homerun off against Mo Rivera.
Vernon Wells also hit a walk-off homer against Rivera – but it was in the 11th inning of a tie game. Suzuki, Scutaro, Mueller and Selby all did it in the ninth, with their team trailing.
Suzuki, Scutaro, and Selby all did it after two-outs. Mueller did it after one out.
How do I know this? Thanks to Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Pitcher Events Finder for Mariano Rivera - looking at all "Homerun" events for Rivera and setting the filter for "Away Games", and "as last play of game." Here's the results - showing the batters to do it before Ichiro:
+-----+----+---+-------------+---+----+-----------------+-----------+---+---+---+---+---+--+-----------------------+
1 1 1 2002-07-14 NYY @CLE Bill Selby ahead 7-6 b 9 123 2 2-2 6 4 *ENDED GAME*:Home Run; Vizquel Scores; Burks Scores; Thome Scores
2004
+-----+----+---+-------------+---+----+-----------------+-----------+---+---+---+---+---+--+-----------------------+
2 1 1 2004-07-24 NYY @BOS Bill Mueller ahead 10-9 b 9 1-- 1 3-1 5 2 *ENDED GAME*:Home Run (Fly Ball); McCarty Scores
2006
+-----+----+---+-------------+---+----+-----------------+-----------+---+---+---+---+---+--+-----------------------+
3 1 1 2006-07-20 NYY @TOR Vernon Wells tied 4-4 b11 --- 1 1-0 2 1 *ENDED GAME*:Home Run (Fly Ball to LF-CF)
2007
+-----+----+---+-------------+---+----+-----------------+-----------+---+---+---+---+---+--+-----------------------+
4 1 1 2007-04-15 NYY @OAK Marco Scutaro ahead 4-2 b 9 12- 2 0-2 3 3 *ENDED GAME*:Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep LF Line); Walker Scores; Kendall Scores
Again, Suzuki, Scutaro, and Selby all did it after two-outs. How's that for a trivia question: Name the only three batters to hit a regular season 2-out walk-off homer against Mo Rivera...whose last names all start with "S."
This entry was posted on Saturday, September 19th, 2009 at 12:31 am and is filed under Event Finders. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:07 am
Not sure you need to set it to away games...if it were home games, they wouldn't be the last play of the game. You could do last play of game and go-ahead.