Dye, Konerko Club Back-to-Back 300th Homers
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Here is an All-Time MLB statistical oddity.
The boxscore of the Chicago White Sox 10-6 win over the Detroit Tigers reports that the Elias Sports Bureau says that this is an MLB First.
In the game’s second inning, White Sox rightfielder Jermaine Dye, in his 14th MLB season and batting 5th in the order, pounced on a 2-1 pitch from Detroit’s Zach Miner (1-1) and pounded it over the left-center wall for his 300th career homer to lead off the inning. Then, the very next hitter, 1st baseman Paul Konerko worked a full-count against Miner before blistering his next offering out to leftfielder for his career 300th dinger.
The White Sox pounded 4 homers in all as leftfielder Carlos Quentin belted a pair of homers while going 4 for 4 with 4 RBIs. The Sox amassed 16 hits in the game.
The AP recap caught this comment from Dye regarding their career homers;
“I think we’re just good hitters with power,” Dye said. “I think we both hit a lot of line drives that are able to get out of the ballpark. You look at Jim (teammate Jim Thome) and he’s 250 ahead of us. So I don’t know if you can call us home-run hitters.”
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