Can't Predict Baseball: Back to Back Inside The Park Home Runs

Only once in the long and storied history of Major League Baseball has two players hit consecutive back to back home runs in a single game. The only time this happened in history was on this day way back in 1977 inside Yankee Stadium with the Texas Rangers in town for a series.

Toby Harrah and Bump Wills would hit the consecutive inside the park home runs back to back on consecutive pitches in an 8-2 Rangers victory over the Yankees. You really can't predict baseball Suzyn.

Can't Predict Baseball: Inside The Park Home Runs

On this day in 1997 for the first time in over twenty years two inside the park home runs are hit in the same inning between the Cubs and the Pirates. Sammy Sosa hits one for the Cubs and Tony Womack hits one for the Pirates for the home runs that are only five minutes apart in the sixth inning. The Cubs would beat the Pirates 2-1 at Three Rivers Stadium.

The last time this happened was when a pair of Texas Rangers teammates Bump Wills and Toby Harrah hit back to back inside the park home runs on consecutive pitches at Yankee Stadium in 1977.