You may have read or heard that the amazing catch, throw and relay by the Braves against the Phillies on Monday night was the first 8-5-3 double play ever to end a post-season game.
Let's go a bit.
In 1919, three years after National League officials stepped in to stop the Chicago Cubs’ plans for a Ladies Day promotion, the team ran an advertisement over the signature of the club’ s president asking:. Charles Weeghman used Ladies Day to promote the Chicago Whales, his team in the Federal League, an upstart rival to the National and American Leagues that lasted.
These were the batting lines for Julio Rodriguez, Mariners center fielder, on Aug. 16-17 at Kansas City, then Aug. 18-19 at Houston:
6 AB, 1 R, 4 H, 2 RBI
5 AB, 1 R, 5 H, 5 RBI
5 AB, 1 R, 4 H, 1.
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The Cubs have had only 1 walk-off win this season, on April 10, when they beat the Mariners, 3-2, on a 1-out, 10th-inning single by Nico Hoerner that scored Nick Madrigal from third.
Today is the 1.