It was a banner day in Mexico Metropolis on Saturday for followers of the dinger.
As a part of MLB’s annual Mexico Metropolis collection, the San Francisco Giants hung 11 runs on the San Diego Padres … and ended up shedding by 5 runs.
Enjoying an an altitude of seven,349 ft (virtually 40% greater than the altitude in Denver), the Giants and the Padres mixed for a surreal 11 house runs in an eventual 16-11 win for San Diego.
One of many many absurd highlights from Saturday’s sport was 4 separate cases of back-to-back house runs. Giants teammates Brandon Crawford and LaMonte Wade Jr. went back-to-back within the third inning earlier than Padres teammates Juan Soto and Xander Bogaerts did so themselves within the fourth inning.
Two extra Padres (Fernando Tatis Jr. and Manny Machado) then produced back-to-back jacks through the fifth inning … just for two extra Giants (Blake Sabol and David Villar) to observe go well with within the seventh inning.
OptaSTATS shared that this was the very first sport in MLB historical past with 4 totally different units of back-to-back homers.
