Pretty much anyone who enjoys baseball has a mental list of things they’d like to see live someday. For me, it’s a no-hitter, for someone else it might be a triple play or a big strikeout game or an inside-the-park homerun.
If you were one of the 4,138 people in Trenton on Wednesday night, you could have scratched three things off that list.
Wilkin Ramirez homered three times for Erie (that’s one), which led 6-5 heading to the bottom of the ninth. Trenton’s Brandon Laird was also having a great day, 3-4 with a double, triple, RBI and run scored.
Laird came up to face Luis Marte with two outs and a man on in the ninth and did something that nobody in the majors has done in a quarter century: he hit a walkoff homerun (number two) to complete the cycle (three!).
The hit gave the Thunder a dramatic 7-6 victory against a pitcher who hadn’t blown a save all season and hadn’t allowed a run in three weeks.
So if you’re scoring at home, if you were in Trenton on Wednesday, you would’ve been able to scratch a three-homer game, a cycle, and a walkoff off your Baseball Bucket List. You don’t get that every day.
Photo: MiLB.com
That is colossal. Those fans are insanely lucky.
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