Has there ever been an infield home run?
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Inside-the-park home run\nIn almost all cases nowadays, a home run involves hitting the ball over the outfield fence in fair territory. Very rarely, a batter can hit the ball in play and circle all the bases before the fielders can throw him out; this is called an inside-the-park home run, and typically requires that the batter be a quick runner, and that either the fielder misplay the ball in some way or that the ball is made difficult to play by caroming in unexpected ways, or by becoming difficult for a fielder to reach due to structural variances and peculiarities of different ballparks. If the misplay is labeled an error by the official scorer, however, the batter is not credited with a home run.\n\nIn baseball parlance, an inside-the-park home run is a play where a hitter scores a home run without hitting the ball out of play. Inside-the-park home runs are rare events, generally occurring only a handful of times during any given season. The play requires both a fast base runner and often some sort of fielding mishap by the defense, or a strange bounce in the outfield. If the fielder commits an error during the act, however, the play is not scored as a home run, but rather advancing on an error.\n\nAn inside-the-park grand slam is the same event but, like a grand slam, features the bases loaded for an inside-the-park home run. There have only been 40 inside-the-park grand slams in Major League Baseball since 1950 and only eight since 1990 (as of 2002). Honus Wagner had the most in MLB history with five.\n\nOf the 154,483 home runs hit from 1951 - 2000, 975 (about one in every 158) were inside the park. The percentage has dwindled over the years with the growing propensity of smaller parks.\n\nThe record for most inside-the-park home runs for a single season (12) was set by Sam Crawford in 1901. He is also the holder for most career inside-the-park home runs with 51. The career leader post-1950 is 13 by former Royals outfielder Willie Wilson.\n\nJimmy Sheckard completed a phenomenal feat in 1901, hitting inside-the-park grand slams in consecutive games on consecutive days with the Brooklyn Superbas (later the Brooklyn Dodgers). Sheckard is the only person in Major League Baseball history to do so.\n\nA rare event occurred on July 13, 1896, when Ed Delahanty of the Philadelphia Phillies hit two inside-the-park home runs (out of four home runs total) in one game against the Chicago Cubs. [1] Ed Konetchy did the same on August 5, 1912
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I think it was this game from July 2, 1963\n\nIn a game we will never again see the likes of, Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants and Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves battled for nearly 16 complete innings before the Giants won, 1-0, on a Willie Mays home run. \nBy Sal Maiorana\nCBS SportsLine Historian \nSAN FRANCISCO (July 2, 1963) - It couldn't have happened in this day and age of pitch counts, set up men trying to accumulate holds - what's a hold? - and closers fattening up their save totals just for protecting a three-run lead in the ninth inning. \n\nIf any manager today pulled what Alvin Dark of the San Francisco Giants and Bobby Bragan of the Milwaukee Braves did on this chilly midsummer evening at Candlestick Park, they would probably be committed to an institution, or at the very least, be named in a grievance by players' union leader Donald Fehr. \n\nJuan Marichal of the Giants and Warren Spahn of the Braves each threw complete games which would be enough to stop the presses in these pitching-poor 1990s. However, this game went 16 innings, and nary a reliever even stirred in the bullpen. Marichal endured the full 16 innings and the 42-year-old Spahn lasted a medically miraculous 15 1/3 before he gave up Willie Mays' solo home run in the bottom of the 16th that ended the epic, never-to-be-matched pitching duel. \n\n"I was a little tired, but my arm wasn't stiff or sore," said Spahn, who faced 55 batters, walked only one - and that was intentional - allowed nine hits, struck out two, and served up 201 pitches. "I wasn't throwing as hard at the end, but I still felt strong. \n\n"You know, once you get past the ninth inning, it's sudden death. You're not looking forward at all, just taking each hitter as he comes and thinking only about the present." \n\nMARICHAL, 17 YEARS SPAHN'S JUNIOR, also faced 55 batters, walked four, struck out 10, gave up eight hits, and delivered a mind-boggling 227 pitches. \n\n"In extra innings, you go out and say you're gonna pitch one more inning so you throw as hard as you can," said Marichal, who was five years old when Spahn began his major league career in 1942 with the Boston Braves. "I said that three or four times and kept throwing hard. I didn't get very tired." \n\nDark could only marvel at his young pitcher, Marichal, who more than earned his ninth consecutive victory of the season and 13th overall. \n\n"Marichal never at any time appeared to be laboring," Dark said. "He didn't throw many breaking pitches, thus tiring his arm out. He just kept slipping across the fastball with a loose, fluid motion. He got stronger." \n\nHe also got a strong dose of inspiration from his opponent. \n\nDark said he considered taking Marichal out in the ninth, but the pitcher didn't want to exit, saying that if the old man on the other side could keep going, so could he. \n\nDuring the first eight innings, Spahn pitched a better game. In the second, Orlando Cepeda singled, stole second and eventually reached third before being stranded. And in the seventh, San Francisco put runners on first and second, but Spahn again wriggled out of danger. \n\nSpahn was always a master of averting disaster. And he did it with that seemingly bionic left arm as well as a cerebrally superior approach to pitching. \n\n"SPAHN IS THE GREATEST PITCHER I have ever seen, bar none," said one-time Braves pitching coach Whitlow Wyatt. "I have seen others who had more stuff, but none had his savvy and his knack of setting up hitters. He knows how to pitch, he pitches to weaknesses." \n\nIn the fourth, Marichal got into a jam when, with two outs, Norm Larker walked and Mack Jones singled. Del Crandall then followed with a single up the middle that sent Larker scurrying home, but he never made it as Mays' throw gunned him down at the plate. \n\nIn the top of the seventh, Crandall o
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Sorry, according to MLB.com - there are no records of a Mike or Michael Hunter having played in the major leagues.
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No. it only matters that you hit a single a double a triple and a homer no matters if it an inside the park homer. This can happen in any order. please give me the best answer i never had one.
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What? Never heard that rule. I was of the understanding that if the ball hit the top of the wall/fence and went out, it was a home run. I guess there could be a different rule for softball.
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Yes, probably many times, for arguing balls and strikes.  This happened to Eddie Kranepool of the Mets in the early 1970s and Tom Seaver was sent up to pinch-hit. (Seaver had pitched one or two days before, so could be safely used.)
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Uh.... no..... Homeruns are always the best.... :)
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I can't find anyone by that name having every played in the majors.  So the answer is "no".
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When Mickey Mantle cleared the left-center-field bleachers at Clark Griffith Stadium in Washington on April 17, 1953, the entire baseball world was lead to believe the ball had traveled 565 feet from home plate to the point where it landed. In truth, that figure derived from the distance from home plate to the place where a neighborhood child retrieved the ball. Since this home run was the only one that ever cleared those bleachers during decades of major league and Negro League competition, it is genuinely deserving of recognition.
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Baseball seems to be the most obvious one but theres still no proof it was derived from cricket or vice versa. I don't know of any other sport that may have been derived from cricket.
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Yes. There have been many deaf players in the major leagues. The last one being Curtis Pride, who played with the Tigers and (I believe) the Mets. The earliest player recorded was Dummy Hoy, who I believe played for the Reds.
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200th Homerun on May 13th, 1979 off of Vida Blue in S.F. in the 2nd Inning.\n300th Homerun on August 14th, 1981 off of Mike Scott in N.Y. in the 3rd Inning.\n400th Homerun on May 14th, 1984 off of Bob Welch in L.A. in the 5th Inning.\n500th Homerun on April 18th, 1987 at 4:53 p.m. off of Don Robinson in Pittsburgh in the 9th Inning.\n\nIts Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt - one of the greatest Third Basemen of all time!
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I'm sure somebody in the history of the game has grounded into a double play in their only Major League at-bat, so whoever that is would be your answer.
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Yes, it has happened before. The pitcher was Ken Johnson . On April 23 1964  Ken Johnson of the than Houston Colt .45's (now the Astros) to the Cincinatti Reds. Both teams were scorless till the ninth when with one out Pete Rose bunted to Johnson who threw it wide and allow Rose to reach second base. A ground out allow Rose to reach third. With two outs now Vida Pinson grounded to Neillie Fox a second who bobbled the ball and his throw was late to first which allowed Rose to score the first and only run of the game. Houston failed to score in the ninth and Johnson became the only player to lose a no  hit game still reconized.\n\nIn 1991 Commisioner Fay Vincent changed the rule of a No Hitter and a Perfect game.\n\nA No HItter happens when a pitcher or pitchers does not allow a hit in a game that goes atleast nine innings or more if it goes to extra innings. However a pitcher can still pitch a no hitter and still lose.\n\nA Perfect games happens when a pitcher pitches  in a complete game victory lasting 9 innings or more with out a hit, walk, hit batter, or any baserunner for any reason. Unlike a  No hitter you cannot lose the game.
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YES! For the Cleveland Indians, he had 2 errors and walked in runner with bases loaded.
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Definitely. Baseball has been around a long time, and every record ever set has to be placed in the context of its era, but this is the first time a large number of statistics are called into question because of behavior that was banned shortly thereafter. People will forever assume that everyone who hit more than 60 homers since Roger Maris, did so with the help of chemistry, not just natural strength, hand-eye coordination and hard work.
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According to the Society for American Baseball Research, there have been 659 triple plays in Major League Baseball from 1876 to June 20, 2005. Of those, 12 were unassisted. In the 2000s, the chance of seeing a triple play in a given inning has been less than 1 in 10,000.\n\nOn July 17, 1990, the Minnesota Twins became the first team in baseball history to turn two triple plays in the same game, against the Boston Red Sox. The Twins lost the game 1-0.