I’ll post one or two (or, OK, three) of these a month: unique events and players you might or might not have heard about. Singular achievements, and thus Singularities.
Before there was Kendrys Morales—or even Kendry Morales—there was Brad Penny.
Penny did not suffer a season-ending injury while celebrating a game-ending grand slam, which of course is the amusing/unamusing play for which Kendry/Kendrys is best known. No, Penny hurt himself while actually hitting the difference-making four-run dinger.
It was Penny’s only home run during his brief time as a St. Louis Cardinal, and it happened on this date in 2010, only eight days before Morales’s moment stole Penny’s thunder forever. (Yeah, it’s another home run-centered Singularity. Don’t ...
