This Day In Baseball
History: August 21, 2010
It was on this date in 2010 that
Matt Stairs of the San Diego Padres, hit a pinch-hit home run off of Ernesto
Frieri of the Milwaukee Brewers in the eighth inning of a 6-5 Brewers win in
Milwaukee’s Miller Park. It was the 21st pinch-hit home run of
Stairs’ career, breaking the record for pinch-hit homers that was set by Cliff
Johnson while he was a member of the Toronto Blue Jays in 1984.
Stairs, who was born in Saint
John, New Brunswick, Canada and played two seasons for the Blue Jays (2007 and
2008) would finish his career with 23 pinch-hit dingers when he retired
following the 2011 season. He would play 1895 games in his 19-year career, that
included stints with the Montreal Expos, Boston Red Sox, Oakland Athletics,
Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Royals, Texas Rangers,
Detroit Tigers, Toronto, Philadelphia Phillies, San Diego and finally the
Washington Nationals.
He would accumulate 1366 base
hits, a .262 batting average, 265 home runs, 899 RBIs and even steal 30 bases.
He would help the Phillies win the World Series in 2008. The only award he ever
won was a Player of the Week honour in July of 1997 while with the Athletics.
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