Good morning!
As Jim wrote about in the Opening Day game recap on Tuesday, Luis Robert was the difference in the Sox win, what with his defensive and offensive heroics.
While it will hopefully not be Robert's first such game, it was the team's first game in over four years that saw a Sox batter hit a home run and record multiple stolen bases in the course of nine innings (and just the seventh this century). In franchise history there have only been 29 such occurrences and only two Sox players to accomplish it twice.
Today's Sporcle asks you to name those 29 instances: how many can you get? Good luck!
Quiz Parameters
- I've allotted 10 minutes for completion attempts.
- For hints I've provided the date in which the game occurred, and the position the player was at defensively on that day.
Useless information to amaze, annoy, confuse, and/or confound your friends and family:
- I thought the first White Sox player to accomplish this may have also been the first player ever in the American League to do so, but alas; Nap Lajoie has him beat by four days: May 2, 1901.
- Only one player in baseball history (since 1901) has hit two home runs and stolen more than two bases (four!), and he's an entry on this list: June 28, 1941.
- The player in baseball history to accomplish this feat the most times in their career? The answer is unsurprising, and my first guess as well as it is likely yours: Rickey Henderson, with 21 such games (three coming over a torrid eight-day stretch in May of 1986). Barry Bonds is a distant second, at 11 games.
- The White Sox are 23-6 when one of their players accomplishes this feat.
- Overall, MLB teams are 654-201-1 when a player(s) does this in a game.
- Five teams have had two players do this in the same game: the Philadelphia Athletics on 7/25/1930 (Al Simmons and Bing Miller, a 14-1 win over Cleveland); Cleveland in game 1 of a doubleheader on 6/27/1965 (Chuck Hinton and Leon Wagner, a 10-7 win over the Kansas City Athletics); Oakland on 7/26/1982 (Rickey Henderson and Dwayne Murphy, an 11-8 win over the California Angels); Cincinnati on 4/14/1987 (Kal Daniels and Eric Davis, a 6-3 win over Atlanta); and, finally, the Colorado Rockies on 6/27/1994 (Dante Bichette and Eric Young, Sr., a 12-7 win over the San Diego Padres).
All data from stathead.com
