The Exclusive Club That Brian McCann Just Joined
From SABR member Cyril Morong at Cybermetrics on May 19:
Brian McCann just did it a couple of days ago (pinch hitting in the 9th). I asked HR expert David Vincent (of SABR and Retrosheet) “Do you know how many times a player has hit a game tying HR in the 9th inning and then won the game with a HR in extra innings?” Here is the list he sent me, used with his permission. The hot link will take you to the boxscore and/or play-by-play for the game, as it does for McCann.
08/27/1949 Jeff Heath
04/29/1985 Donnie Scott
04/08/1986 Jim Presley
05/08/1990 Andre Dawson
06/10/1998 Robin Ventura
04/05/1999 Raul Mondesi
04/11/2000 Ed Sprague
06/14/2002 Aaron Boone
08/27/2002 Joe Crede
08/20/2004 Adrian Beltre
Read the full article here: http://cybermetric.blogspot.com/2011/05/players-who-hit-game-tying-hrs-in-ninth.html
Originally published: May 19, 2011. Last Updated: May 19, 2011.