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Thursday, April 11, 2013

The Upton Brothers

At the beginning of this week, B.J. and Justin Upton did something that had never been done before: they became the first brothers to end a baseball game with back to back home runs in the 9th inning.

Justin Upton's solo home run in the 9th tied the score 1 to 1 against the Chicago Cubs. One out later, B.J. hit a solo shot that ended the game. They also became the 25th tandem of brothers to homer in the same major league game.

This follows up another unique feat they achieves last year.

On August 3 2012, B.J. hit the 100th home run of his career. A mere 44 minutes later, Justin hit his 100th. So what were the odds of them both hitting No. 100 on the same day? Well, of the six brother acts to hit 100 apiece, there had only been one time before that that any of those brothers had hit any number on the same day. Who were they? Why the Uptons themselves had hit #99 on the same day as well!


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