Former major league outfielder Lenny Dykstra sustained a stroke earlier this week and is recovering at a Los Angeles hospital, the New York Post reported on Thursday.
The only two things rarer in modern-day baseball than the four-homer game is the Triple Crown and the unassisted triple play. The former is, of course, done over an entire season, while there's a large level of lucky in the unassisted triple play.
In early July 1993, the Phillies played three weird games within a week. “I’ve never been through anything like this," Philadelphia reliever Mitch "The Wild Thing" Williams said of Game 2, which ended just before sunrise.