08/05 Cincinnati (Leake) @ CUBS (Dempster) 1:20 CDT, WGN TV

[SouthSideRyan]

from BP:

 

Home Run of the Day: Tony Campana, Chicago Cubs - 14.21 seconds

You always remember your first home run. I imagine that's doubly so when your first home run is of the inside-the-park variety. Granted, this was an inside-the-park home run of the "botched play" variety (courtesy of a very out of position Yonder Alonso), but I don't think Campana or anyone on the Cubs is going to mind that. Campana's trot isn't quite as quick as Peter Bourjos' four-base single, but (unless I'm forgetting one) it is now the second-quickest trot I've recorded, nudging out Shane Victorino's 14.33 second trot. Nice running, Tony.

 

Are there inside-the-park home runs that don't somehow involve a play being botched? Isn't it typically an OF diving for a ball and missing it, so it gets behind him, and then the other OF is slow to back him up?

 

Sometimes it's just confusion about your own home parks ground rules if you remember Geo chugging around the bases in Houston.

 

I thought that was Arizona.

[Sammy Sofa]

from BP:

 

Home Run of the Day: Tony Campana, Chicago Cubs - 14.21 seconds

You always remember your first home run. I imagine that's doubly so when your first home run is of the inside-the-park variety. Granted, this was an inside-the-park home run of the "botched play" variety (courtesy of a very out of position Yonder Alonso), but I don't think Campana or anyone on the Cubs is going to mind that. Campana's trot isn't quite as quick as Peter Bourjos' four-base single, but (unless I'm forgetting one) it is now the second-quickest trot I've recorded, nudging out Shane Victorino's 14.33 second trot. Nice running, Tony.

 

Are there inside-the-park home runs that don't somehow involve a play being botched? Isn't it typically an OF diving for a ball and missing it, so it gets behind him, and then the other OF is slow to back him up?

 

Sometimes it's just confusion about your own home parks ground rules if you remember Geo chugging around the bases in Houston.

 

I thought that was Arizona.

 

No sir.

[jersey cubs fan]

Deosn't that qualify as botching the play?

[Sammy Sofa]

Yup. I'd be more curious to find an example of an in the park home run that somehow WASN'T the result of a screw-up.

[SouthSideRyan]

Was thinking of Lee's against the D-Backs. That wasn't a botched play, just took a crazy bounce off the CF wall.

[Schwarber Fan]

It's funny - I was watching sportscenter the day of Campana's ITP HR and the anchor said something like "that is the first Cubs inside the park homerun since 1948" or something ridiculous. I can remember Soto's, Lee's, and one from Sosa in the early 2000s off the top of my head. Sad, sad research.

[SouthSideRyan]

It's funny - I was watching sportscenter the day of Campana's ITP HR and the anchor said something like "that is the first Cubs inside the park homerun since 1948" or something ridiculous. I can remember Soto's, Lee's, and one from Sosa in the early 2000s off the top of my head. Sad, sad research.

 

And it can't be rookie cause of Soto, and it's not home because I know Dawson hit one at Wrigley. Lefty maybe?

 

ETA: Guess I misremembered, the Dave Martinez injury HR was in Montreal.

Edited August 8, 2011 by SouthSideRyan

[CubColtPacer]

It's funny - I was watching sportscenter the day of Campana's ITP HR and the anchor said something like "that is the first Cubs inside the park homerun since 1948" or something ridiculous. I can remember Soto's, Lee's, and one from Sosa in the early 2000s off the top of my head. Sad, sad research.

 

Apparently Campana is the first Cub to have his first home run of his career be an inside the park home run since 1948.