Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Trivia Tuesday: Mariano Rivera Edition

On Friday night, Ichiro Suzuki joined a very select group of players to hit a regular season walk-off home run off Mariano Rivera. Four others had done so before that. Can you name those four players to walk-off against Mo in the regular season (and bonus points for the year the home runs occurred)?

Put your answer in the comments below. I will post the correct answer tonight. Good luck!

(Side note: Going through Baseball-Reference, I learned that Mariano Rivera has never walked in the winning run in the regular season. And he only has 15 walk-off hits against him in total)

Answers:

2002
Car# Yr# G# Date Tm Opp Batter Score Inn RoB Out Cnt Pit R Play Desc.
+-----+----+---+-------------+---+----+-----------------+-----------+---+---+---+---+---+--+-----------------------+
1 1 1 2002-07-14 NYY @CLE Bill Selby ahead 7-6 b 9 123 2 2-2 6 4 *ENDED GAME*:Home Run; Vizquel Scores; Burks Scores; Thome Scores

2004
Car# Yr# G# Date Tm Opp Batter Score Inn RoB Out Cnt Pit R Play Desc.
+-----+----+---+-------------+---+----+-----------------+-----------+---+---+---+---+---+--+-----------------------+
2 1 1 2004-07-24 NYY @BOS Bill Mueller ahead 10-9 b 9 1-- 1 3-1 5 2 *ENDED GAME*:Home Run (Fly Ball); McCarty Scores

2006
Car# Yr# G# Date Tm Opp Batter Score Inn RoB Out Cnt Pit R Play Desc.
+-----+----+---+-------------+---+----+-----------------+-----------+---+---+---+---+---+--+-----------------------+
3 1 1 2006-07-20 NYY @TOR Vernon Wells tied 4-4 b11 --- 1 1-0 2 1 *ENDED GAME*:Home Run (Fly Ball to LF-CF)

2007
Car# Yr# G# Date Tm Opp Batter Score Inn RoB Out Cnt Pit R Play Desc.
+-----+----+---+-------------+---+----+-----------------+-----------+---+---+---+---+---+--+-----------------------+
4 1 1 2007-04-15 NYY @OAK Marco Scutaro ahead 4-2 b 9 12- 2 0-2 3 3 *ENDED GAME*:Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep LF Line); Walker Scores; Kendall Scores

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