Micah Owings is not only an excellent pitcher, he also knows how to swing a bat.
The Arizona Diamondbacks hurler nailed an opposite-field, pinch-hit homer Wednesday in the sixth inning of his team's 8-7 victory over the Houston Astros. He smoked the first pitch he saw from reliever Dave Borkowski to tie it up at 7 before Chris Young followed him up with a double, going on to score the go-ahead run on an Eric Byrnes base hit.
One year after earning a silver-slugger award for hitting .333, Owings has raised his batting average to .421 (8-for-19) on the season. The 26-year-old righty has five career homers in 79 at bats over his two big league seasons, this marking his first pinch-hit bomb.
There's no doubt Owings is the best pitching hitter in the game these days, but his numbers on the hill aren't so bad, either: 4-0 with a 3.48 ERA in 2008.
Meanwhile, the 20-8 D'Backs became baseball's first 20-game winner, by racking up a franchise-best 19 April victories and winning eight of their last nine series. The lone loss? A split two-game set against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Not bad at all.
[Sports Network]
3 comments:
actually, the only series the diamondbacks have lost thus far was the opening series in cincinatti (in march!). they won every series they played in april.
Well, they did split that two-game set against the Dodgers on 4/23 and 4/24, but I guess that's not counted as a loss. Still, very impressive.
for some reason i read that as four game series, and not two... can't make excuses for that, but you're right, they did have that split. it has been an amazing month to be a diamondbacks fan and losses have been very easy to forget.
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