Tonight, for those of you able to get to T-Mobile Park by, I’m guessing, like, eight hours before the first pitch, the Mariners are giving away bobbleheads celebrating Cal Raleigh’s playoff-clinching home run. Let’s revisit that hit, shall we?
In the last decade, there have been roughly 23,000 MLB games. In those games, players have only hit 313 walk-off home runs with the batter being the winning run. Of those 313 walk-off home runs, only 72 have come with two outs. Of those 72, only 13 have come with a full count. Of those 13, just one was hit by a pinch hitter.