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May 15, 2003
#OnThisDay in @chicagocubs history ▸ Corey Patterson's home run in the 17th inning ties the Cubs record for the latest home run with Keith Moreland.
Meanwhile, Cubs hurlers, Kerry Wood, Mike Remlinger, Juan Cruz, Kyle Farnsworth, and Todd Wellemeyer combine to tie the NL record for most strikeouts in a game with 24 as the Cubs top the @brewers 4-2 at Miller Park.
Anthony Rizzo arrives tomorrow. He is quite possibly the one who will save the Chicago Cubs franchise. Or he is the next Corey Patterson. No big deal.
Though Corey Patterson may not have learned how to lay off a pitch in his old age (which is 31. How the hell is he 31?!), he's at least become a snazzy dresser, disguising his fading tools with a classic, GQ look. Even better, unless my computer screen's display is off, it appears that while Patterson is wearing high, striped socks, they are simply striped in white and not the red, white, and blue that Brendan Ryan made famous during his time in St. Louis.
While I may personally have chosen the mid-calf, tri-color option, one cannot fault Patterson for the basic candy cane options that reminds one of Christmas Eve and the horrifying, yet unremarkable, house murder of the Wicked Witch of the East.
Mind-Blowing Trivia
I'm going to give you a batting line from the last two days and you try to identify who it belongs to. Ready?
12 AB, 9 H, 2 HR, 4 RBI, 6 R.
Reasonable guesses:
Jose Bautista
Joey Votto
Albert Pujols
Alex Rodriguez
Less reasonable guesses:
Miguel Cairo
Craig Counsell
Micah Owings
And you would still be wrong. Nope, this particular hot streak belongs to the one, the only, Corey Patterson. The same Corey Patterson who, heretofore, shocked me by residing on a Major League Roster. The same Corey Patterson who has a career sub .300 OBP and has played for six teams in the last five years. That Corey Patterson.
Dwayne Murphy deserves a Nobel Prize and a Mercury Award and anything else you can give the guy because, after perfecting Jose Bautista, he's given the 32-year-old Patterson a new lease on life. Patterson's OPS is the second highest of his career, behind only his 2003 campaign where he played in only 83 games.
The saving grace is that Patterson hasn't drawn a walk in the last two games. Proving that some things never change.
Yeeeeee
