This is the Sunday edition of the fact of the week, unfortunately I couldn't post on Friday but this week's fact deals with walk off hits. Today, Adam Lind hit a walk off home run off of Rafael Soriano of the Rays, which got me to wondering how many walk off hits have the Jays had this year?
Surprisingly, today's home run was only the third walk off hit this year for the Jays, and the first walk off home run. It was also the first walk off hit not by Aaron Hill, who has had the only two walk off singles this year, on June 5th against the Yankees and August 27th against the Tigers. Both were in extra innings (14th and 11th, respectively), so today's was also the first walk off hit in the 9th inning.
Considering that there have already have 176 walk off hits (about 6 per team), and 65 walk off home runs (about 2 per team) this year (through Saturday night), the Jays, compared to other MLB teams, have about half as many of the most exciting plays in baseball.
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