Well That Was Original

by ~ September 29th, 2010 at 2:35 pm

Dan Cortes came into today’s game with a 5-2 lead, and wound up allowing the Rangers to tie the game when his command utterly escaped him. That will happen with pitchers like Cortes from time to time, and he was able to escape the inning without further damage despite two runners in scoring position.

Cortes returned for the ninth inning… and this happened:

I can honestly say that I have never seen a walkoff strikeout before, and I don’t believe I ever will again.  That’s the 2010 Mariners for you.

UPDATE — Well, I’ll be dipped.  Apparently it’s happened five times before in the last fifty-four years (as far back as the Play Index went when that was written).  Hats off to the Immaculate Inning for gathering the info, and to Jeff of Lookout Landing for finding that two-year-old post.

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  • lecP-Soq

    The mariners like finding new ways to lose… keeps things interesting. Also this hurt there chances of avoiding a 100 loss season, which is always embarrassing.

  • http://baseballhittingtipsonline.blogspot.com/ baseballhittingtips

    I was following the game on my Droid and his first nine pitches were balls. They knew that if he could get anything over it was going to be a fastball.

    Then I watched the highlight this morning of that walkoff play. That was a nasty pitch. It bounced in front of the plate. There was no way to block it.

  • maqman

    I’ve been watching professional games since about 1947-48 and I’ve never seen anything like that. Which I guess confirms that if you live long enough you’ll see everything. I didn’t like that Brown left Cortes in there after his poor performance in the previous inning. He just didn’t have it, so roll out somebody else in the ninth. If that destroys his self-confidence then he isn’t going to last long in his line of work. Brown is starting to remind me of Wak, a really nice man who makes some questionable decisions. Of course we all do that occasionally, and not all of us are that nice either.