Since it is my custom to keep a scorecard anytime I am at a professional game, I had noticed that the Brewers had been able to score in each of the eight innings they sent batters to the plate (since they were ahead after Atlanta's 9th inning the bottom half of the 9th did not need to be played). However, after the game was over and I was listening to the radio announcers recapping the game, I learned that this was the FIRST TIME EVER in the team's 46-year history that they had played a game and scored at least one run in each of the innings in which they came up to bat. Pretty impressive, right?
THEN they went on to point out that this was only the 16th time in Major League history that this had happened in a nine-inning game since records began being kept back in the 1880s, and only the third occurrence since 1999!
By comparison, a perfect game — which is defined as a game in which a team's pitcher (or combination of pitchers) pitches a victory that lasts a minimum of nine innings, no runs are scored by the opponent, and no opposing player reaches base — has been accomplished a total of 21 times since the modern era began in 1900, including Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series.
So Thursday afternoon the Brewers made a little bit of history, and I WAS THERE!!!
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