Maybe we're easily astounded around here. But we never seem to run out of
astounding facts for your reading enjoyment. So once again, our Useless
Information Department now proudly presents the Five Astounding Facts of the
Week:
我想各位讀者在讀September History Watch時應該常常感到吃驚，但我們的目的就是
要讓各位吃驚啊!
這個禮拜呢，我們這個沒甚麼用的單位找到了五個各位讀者可能會感興趣的事件!
1
An amazing thing happened Wednesday in Baltimore: In the fifth inning that
night, the Orioles had a 20-year-old guy (Manny Machado) and a 42-year-old
guy (Jim Thome) hit a home run in the same inning.
1.星期三在巴爾的摩發生的事還蠻令人驚訝的: 當比賽進行到第五局的時候呢，金鷹
隊的20歲小將(Manny Machado)和42歲的老將(Jim Thome)在同一局擊出了全壘打。
So how often have a 20-year-old and a 40-something homered in the same
inning, you ask? Exactly once in baseball history, according to the Sultan of
Swat Stats, SABR home run historian David Vincent:
所以40幾歲的老鳥和20歲的菜鳥在同一局擊出全壘打是很常見的事嗎?
事實上根據我們的紀錄，只有一次。
On April 19, 1958, the Giants got a home run from Orlando Cepeda, age 20, and
Hank Sauer, age 41, in the third inning of a game against the Dodgers. Just
how long ago was that? It was just the fifth game played in the history of
the San Francisco Giants. In other words, it wasn't exactly last week.
那是在1958年的4/19，巨人隊的Orlando Cepeda(20)和Hank Sauer(41)在對道奇
的第三局都擊出了全壘打。
這是舊金山巨人隊成軍後的第55場比賽，你覺得這很常見嗎?
2
Speaking of amazing home run feats, those never-a-dull-moment Oakland A's did
something Saturday that we couldn't recall ever seeing: They hit three home
runs in the 13th inning at Yankee Stadium