Comments on: Homering on the first pitch of a post-season game

By: admin

admin — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:32:16 +0000

Anytime the count is unknown, we don't have pitch-by-pitch data.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:55:54 +0000

Well that's a good point. I put the count as "unknown" when I should have put it as "0-0". Using "0-0" gives you only these instances:

Car# G# Date Series G Batter Tm Opp Pitcher Score Inn RoB Out Cnt Pit RBI Play Desc.
+-----+---+-------------+------+-+-----------------+---+----+-----------------+-----------+---+---+---+---+---+---+-------------------------+
1 1 1991-10-12 NLCS 3 Orlando Merced PIT @ATL John Smoltz tied 0-0 t 1 --- 0 0-0 1 1 *LEADOFF GM*:Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep CF)
2 1 1995-10-04 NLDS 2 Marquis Grissom ATL @COL Lance Painter tied 0-0 t 1 --- 0 0-0 1 1 *LEADOFF GM*:Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep CF-RF)
3 1 1997-10-08 ALCS 1 Brady Anderson BAL CLE Chad Ogea tied 0-0 b 1 --- 0 0-0 1 1 Home Run (Line Drive to Deep RF Line); Anderson Scores
4 1 2000-10-25 WS 4 Derek Jeter NYY @NYM Bobby Jones tied 0-0 t 1 --- 0 0-0 1 1 *LEADOFF GM*:Home Run (LF)
5 1 2001-10-17 NLCS 2 Marcus Giles ATL @ARI Miguel Batista tied 0-0 t 1 --- 0 0-0 1 1 *LEADOFF GM*:Home Run (LF)

I'm not sure why the older ones on the list above don't also show up on that search, but it probably has to do with how much pitch-by-pitch data is available.

Thanks a lot for finding my mistake.

By: ddesario

ddesario — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:37:02 +0000

don't know why it didn't show up for you, but Jeter did it in game 4 of the 2000 WS.

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Games » Homering on the first pitch of a post-season game — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:56:27 +0000

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