Here's another baseball event to be filed under the category of extremely rare. Opposing pitchers Matt Cain of the San Francisco Giants and Cole Hamels of the Philadelphia Phillies homered off each other on Saturday afternoon at Citizens Bank Park. And to make it just a touch crazier, both were solo home runs that occurred in the same (third) inning. For a little perspective on how rare this event was, it's the first time pitchers homered off each other in the same game since Atlanta's Kevin Millwood and Colorado's Denny Stark did so back on May 18, 2002. Yes, that one took place at Coors Field during the first season of the humidor. To find the last time it happened in the same inning, you have to go all the way back to May 14, 1990. On that day, Montreal's Kevin Gross and Los Angeles' Fernando Valenzuela connected for third inning solo shots, much the same way Cain and Hamels did on Saturday. Who says we need a universal DH rule?
Opposing pitchers Matt Cain and Cole Hamels homer against each other in same inning
Published July 21, 2012 at 9:40 PM
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