{"id":6896,"date":"2013-07-27T13:59:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T17:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=6896"},"modified":"2013-07-27T13:59:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T17:59:22","slug":"ryan-zimmerman-mr-walkoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=6896","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Zimmerman; Mr. Walkoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7280\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ZimmermanRyan-20130726-walkoff-Greg-Fiume-via-amazingavenue-blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7280\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7280\" alt=\"Zimmerman's 9th career walk-off homer couldn't have come at a better time.  Photo Greg Fiume via amazingavenue\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ZimmermanRyan-20130726-walkoff-Greg-Fiume-via-amazingavenue-blog-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zimmerman&#8217;s 9th career walk-off homer couldn&#8217;t have come at a better time. Photo Greg Fiume via amazingavenue<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Its been a little while since <strong>Ryan Zimmerman<\/strong> hit a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/event_hr.cgi?id=zimmery01&amp;t=b\">walk-off home-run<\/a> (about two years) but on Friday night <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/mlb\/gameday\/index.jsp?gid=2013_07_26_nynmlb_wasmlb_2&amp;mode=recap_home&amp;c_id=was\">7\/26\/13 he delivered<\/a> again, giving the Nats a second walk-off win in two days.<\/p>\n<p>In his Washington career he&#8217;s had some memorable walk-off homers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A 2-run walk-off against <strong>Chien-Ming Wang<\/strong> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/boxes\/WAS\/WAS200606180.shtml\">Fathers Day 2006<\/a> against the Yankees, a game in which the team set its long-running regular season attendance record (only surpassed on Opening day 2013).<\/li>\n<li>A 2-out, 2-strike come-from-behind homer against Florida on the 4th of July that same year.<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps his most amazing walk-off homer; the game-winner in the Nats Stadium opener in April 2008, a leading candidate for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?action=edit&amp;post=6278\">Best Nats game of all time<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Zimmerman had accumulated no less than eight walk-off homers by the end of his 6th professional season in 2011, and he seemed a sure bet to shatter the all time MLB record for such events. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_home_run_records\">long-standing record for career walk-offs<\/a> was shared by this quintet of Hall-of-Famers at 12: <strong>Jimmy Foxx<\/strong>, <strong>Mickey Mantle<\/strong>, <strong>Babe Ruth<\/strong>, <strong>Stan Musial<\/strong> and <strong>Frank Robinson<\/strong> before one <strong>Jim Thome<\/strong> hit his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/event_hr.cgi?id=thomeji01&amp;t=b\">13th in June of 2012<\/a> to take over the career lead just before he retired.\u00a0 Friday&#8217;s was Zimmerman&#8217;s 9th, and you&#8217;d have to think he remains a good bet to possibly take over the career lead before his career (which is seemingly only about half way done) is over.<\/p>\n<p>The current active leader in walk-offs is another noteworthy name; <strong>David Ortiz<\/strong> connected for his 11th such walk-off homer <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/ortiz-hit-3-run-hr-030357866--mlb.html\">on 6\/6\/13<\/a>, as detailed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billy-ball.com\/2013\/06\/big-papis-walkoff-homers\/\">Billy-Ball.com<\/a>. \u00a0Ortiz&#8217; most noteworthy walk-off homers though are the post-season variety, not captured by these regular season records.<\/p>\n<p>Zimmerman has had a 2 year walk-off drought; will we see another moment of magic later this year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its been a little while since Ryan Zimmerman hit a walk-off home-run (about two years) but on Friday night 7\/26\/13 he delivered again, giving the Nats a second walk-off win in two days. In his Washington career he&#8217;s had some memorable walk-off homers: A 2-run walk-off against Chien-Ming Wang on Fathers Day 2006 against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[153,37,605,1127,1000,1906,161,36,355],"class_list":["post-6896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral","tag-babe-ruth","tag-chien-ming-wang","tag-david-ortiz","tag-frank-robinson","tag-jim-thome","tag-jimmy-foxx","tag-mickey-mantle","tag-ryan-zimmerman","tag-stan-musial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6896"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7282,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896\/revisions\/7282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}