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On July 8, 2011, Johnson hit his second grand slam in the season off St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Kyle Lohse. Johnson gave the D-backs the lead in the seventh to break a tie 7–3. He hit a 2-2 pitch into the Cardinals bullpen while thinking that he only hit a sacrifice fly. The ball carried long enough to be a grand slam.
Thirteen players have hit two grand slams in a single Major League Baseball (MLB) game to date, the most recent being Josh Willingham of the Washington Nationals on July 27, 2009. [2] No player has accomplished the feat more than once in his career and no player has ever hit more than two in a game.
In baseball, a grand slam is a home run hit with all three bases occupied by baserunners ("bases loaded"), thereby scoring four runs—the most possible in one play. According to The Dickson Baseball Dictionary , the term originated in the card game of contract bridge , [ better source needed ] in which a grand slam involves taking all the ...
2 grand slams in one inning 1: Fernando Tatís. April 23, 1999 [16] 1 grand slam from each side of the plate in the same game 1: Bill Mueller. July 29, 2003 [16] Grand slam on first career pitch 2: Daniel Nava. June 12, 2010 [17] [a] Three sacrifice flies in a game 12: José López. April 15, 2008 [14] 10 or more runs batted in during a game 17 ...
Freddie Freeman's walk-off grand slam wins it With the Dodgers down to their final out in the 10th inning, Freddie Freeman crushed a walk-off grand slam off Nestor Cortes, giving the Dodgers a 6-3 ...
The record auction price for a baseball is $4.392 million, set only two months ago for the ball Shohei Ohtani hit at LoanDepot Park in Miami on Sept. 19 to become the first MLB player to hit 50 ...
The Cardinals evened the series with a blowout win in Game 2, capped off by a grand slam from Gary Gaetti. In St. Louis for Game 3, Ron Gant led the Cardinals to victory with a pair of home runs. In Game 4, the Braves had a 3–0 lead after six and a half innings, but the Cardinals scored four unanswered runs to take a commanding 3–1 series lead.
The baseball from Freddie Freeman's walk-off World Series grand slam sold for $1.56 million at auction on Saturday night.. The $1.56 million bid made the ball the third-most expensive game-used ...