The big thing about baseball is that Things What happens in the game is that we see amazingly rare things always happen. It’s like an old joke: “Well, this is the first time Ohio’s left-hander has hit a ground-rule double on a curveball in the seventh inning of the game in August.”
Louis Cardinals, you don’t have to go into that ambiguity to appreciate what they pulled out on Saturday. In the first inning of his game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Nolan Arenado scored two runs, beating Paul Goldschmidt. Great start, isn’t it?
Then Nolan Gorman made it home.
Then Juan Yepez made the house.
Then Dylan Carlson came home.
According to ESPN statistics and data, this is only the 11th time in MLB history that a team has scored four home runs in a row and the first time since the White Sox did so in 2020. Moreover, this is the first time. This is the first time a team has done so in the first innings.
The Cardinals hit 4 home runs in a row
This is only the 11th time in MLB history that there are 4 HRs in a row.
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– Sports Center (portsSportsCenter) July 2, 2022
The best part? It all kind of happened to two outsiders. Today has been a frustrating day for the Cardinals.