A year ago today: Edwin's two-homer inning

To help fill the baseball void, we’re flipping the calendar back one year to remind us all just how awesome our great game is. Here's a look back at the best of April 8, 2019:

It's quite a feat to hit two home runs in the same game. It's rare to see both of those home runs come in the same inning. What's rarer than that? One player launching two homers in the same inning, but on two separate occasions in his career. That's what Edwin Encarnación accomplished when he smashed a home run to lead off the sixth inning for the Mariners in their game against the Royals at Kauffman Stadium on April 8, 2019, and then sent a three-run shot over the left-field wall later in the same frame. Needless to say, Seattle had a big inning, scoring eight times en route to a 13-5 victory over Kansas City.

Incredibly, it wasn't something new for Encarnación, who homered twice in the same inning six years earlier while with the Blue Jays. On July 26, 2013, he went deep twice in the seventh inning of a 12-6 victory over the Astros at Rogers Centre, including a grand slam. That made him the second player in franchise history to homer twice in the same inning, joining Joe Carter, who did so in 1993.

The best of the rest:

Davis sets new hitless AB record: Chris Davis set a record in a category he would rather not have, going 0-for-5 against the A's and breaking the MLB record for most consecutive hitless at-bats, with 47. He wouldn't get a hit until five days later, when his streak ended at 54 hitless at-bats.

Trout robs Yelich of homer: In a rare Interleague meeting, two of the game's brightest stars, Mike Trout and Christian Yelich, were on the same field together when the Angels played the Brewers at Angel Stadium. And their paths crossed when Yelich hit a long drive to center field that Trout leaped up to catch against the wall to rob Yelich of a home run. Yelich tipped his cap in admiration of the great play.

Bumgarner passes Perry on Giants' K list: With his strikeout of the Padres' Luis Urías to end the third inning at Oracle Park, Madison Bumgarner passed Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry for seventh place on the Giants' all-time strikeouts list. The strikeout was the 1,607th of Bumgarner's career. He would end the 2019 season with 1,794 career strikeouts in 11 seasons with San Francisco before signing with the D-backs as a free agent.