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Push ‘Em Up Tony Still Stands Alone

Posted by Steve Lombardi on September 24, 2007
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Using Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Batting Event Finder, for the Post-Season, and setting it for "Strikeouts, World Series, Game 7, Innings 7-to-end, with the Bases Loaded" tells us that, today, still, there's only been one time in baseball history where a batter, in Game 7 of the World Series, has struck out with the bases loaded, during innings 7 or later:  October 10, 1926 - when Pete Alexander fanned Tony Lazzeri on a curveball.

Including Tony, there have been 29 batters who faced this situation in a World Series.  The last one was Luis Gonzalez in the 9th inning of Game 7 of the 2001 World Series.

As a Yankees fan, boy, do I wish that Luis had tied Tony for this "record" on that day.

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This entry was posted on Monday, September 24th, 2007 at 9:13 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.

3 Responses to “Push ‘Em Up Tony Still Stands Alone”

  1. Andy Says:
    September 24th, 2007 at 10:20 am

    That totally amazes me....that 28 out of 29 guys could avoid striking out in that situation.

    Also 19 of those plays did not result in a run, and there's a little bitof everything mixed in:
    - a grand slam
    - a hit by pitch
    - lots of double plays, including a line-drive DP
    - 3 game-winning hits, and 1 game-ending (non-winning) out

    Amazingly, there has never been a walk!

    Great find, Steve.

  2. Andy Says:
    September 24th, 2007 at 10:35 am

    How about Bill Skowron..he came up in that situation on Oct 10th of consecutive years...once he hit a grand slam to put the game away, and once he grounded out to end the game (although even if he had homered he team still would have been behind.)

  3. vonhayes Says:
    September 24th, 2007 at 10:38 am

    Lot of guys jumping at the first pitch.

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