When Blyleven Charged The Mound

[Twins Daily Admin]

Chris Jaffe of the Hardball Times researched something that Bert Blyleven talked about the other day on FSN....

 

Anyhow, Blyleven noted that in his ba-zillion years pitching, no one ever charged the mound on him. He did, however, once charge the mound himself after getting hit by a pitch.

 

Let’s look this up.

 

Bert not only charged the mound, he did so with a bat? There must be some news accounts of this, right?

 

Bert Blyleven tracer

[snepp]

Brock, is that you posting under the wrong account?

[snepp]

I lol'd at this part.

 

However, the last Phillies-Pirates game of 1979 had a very odd twist. On Sept. 20, 1979, Phillies outfielder Keith Moreland hit a fly to left that third base umpire Eric Gregg lost in the lights. He saw the Philadelphia Ball Girl jump up and down saying “home run!” so he ruled it a home run.

 

 

Seems Eric Gregg was always a lousy umpire.