Normally, we wouldn’t write about a walk-off hit unless it was something wild surrounding it.
But a walk-off bunt, that’s MEGA RARE!
Darion Blanco was up at bat with a man on third and one out in a 6-6 game against the Seattle Mariners. A perfect bunt would get the runner home with ease.
And what a bunt it was: A majestic dink down the first-base line that would have been impossible grab and toss home in time.
How rare is it? From an MLB.com article: “According to Baseball-Reference, from 1914 through these first few weeks of the 2023 season, a 109-year period, there are just 120 known instances of walk-off bunts — a frequency of barely more than one per season — by 112 different players.”
NEAT!
Bunt walk-off in Kansas City‼️
🎥: @BallySportsKC pic.twitter.com/niCDj403fS
— The Sporting News (@sportingnews) August 15, 2023
Also neat? This:
Helping to pull off the suicide squeeze and earn an RBI fielder's choice in Monday night's 7-6 defeat of the Mariners, Dairon Blanco collected the 4th walkoff bunt of its kind (but, oddly enough, the 2nd one this season alone) on this list of players in @Royals franchise history pic.twitter.com/aAIIJzmj6p
— StatsCentre (@StatsCentre) August 15, 2023
