WEDNESDAY’S QUICKIE QUIZ
>>> Over the weekend, the Twins’ Jorge Polanco became the 12th opposing player with a stadium record five hits in a game at Citizens Bank Park . . . The record for hits by an opponent at Veterans Stadium is six, done once . . . Who was it?
(Answer Below)
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WEDNESDAY’S SINGLE DIGITS
>>> The Phillies’ 10-6 loss Tuesday was their worst extra-inning home loss by run differential since dropping an 8-1, 11-inning decision to the Cardinals on June 20, 2017.
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>>> Juan Soto’s three-run homer in the 10th that did most of Washington’s damage was the fourth visiting extra-inning three-run home run or grand slam in Citizens Bank Park history and the second hit by the Nationals . . . Ian Desmond belted an 11th-inning slam off Michael Stutes in a 6-2 victory on June 19, 2013.
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>>> The Suns’ Jamal Crawford had 51 points Tuesday to become the first NBA player to have a 50-point game for four different franchises. He had also gone for:
> 50 (Dec. 20, 2008, Warriors)
> 52 (Jan. 26, 2007, Knicks)
> 50 (April 11, 2004, Bulls).
And for those asking about Wilt Chamberlain, he scored 50 in a game 122 times (including four playoff games) for four different teams, but the Philadelphia Warriors and San Francisco Warriors were the same franchise, having just moved from one coast to the other. He also managed half-a-hundred while with the Sixers and the Los Angeles Lakers.
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>>> One of the things we had to learn early in this business was that no matter how hard you tried, mistakes would be made: typos, tenses of verbs, facts. And sometimes, even after double- and triple-checking, those mistakes would jump out and smack you upside the head.
Walt Hazzard smacked me upside the head.
Monday we ran a list of former Philadelphia Catholic, Public and Inter-Ac League products that had played in and won an NCAA Championship Game. Somehow, we skimmed right over Overbrook’s Walt Hazzard, who had 11 points in UCLA’s first National Championship victory in 1964.
That updated list:
> 1954 La Salle ( Charlie Singley, West Catholic; Charlie Greenberg, La Salle; Frank Blatcher, Southern; Tom Gola, La Salle; John Yodsnukis, Lincoln; Frank O’Hara, La Salle)
> 1964 UCLA (Walt Hazzard, Overbook)
> 1975 UCLA (Andre McCarter, Overbrook)
> 2009 North Carolina (Wayne Ellington, Episcopal Academy)
> 2018 Villanova (Dhamir Cosby-Roundtree, Neumann-Goretti; Collin Gillespie, Archbishop Wood)
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QUICKIE QUIZ ANSWER
>>> Nomar Garciaparra had six hits – all singles – for the Red Sox in a 6-5 loss to the Phillies at the Vet on June 21, 2003.