Make mine a double!
Two of sports' most uncommon plays occurred on the weekend and they happened in pairs with two golf albatrosses and a couple of inside-the park home runs. Canadian speed skater Denny Morrison pitched in as well with two World Cup wins.
They are sports rarities, the very uncommon score of two on a par-5 in golf and the not-quite-so-unusual inside-the park home run in baseball, but it's extremely rare that two of those occurrences would happen in the same tournament or on the same day. Must be spring in the air.
It began Saturday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando, Fla. Daniel Berger got it started on the par-5 sixth hole when he stepped up for his second shot 237 yards away from the hole.
Florida often gets sudden weather changes, especially in the spring, but on Sunday lightning struck for a second time when Zach Johnson used his 5-iron from 205 yards out, this time on the par-5 16th hole.
Matt Every went on to win the tournament.
Grapefruit League excitement
Baseball's spring training is into its final couple of weeks before teams begin the 2015 season. In Florida, the Grapefruit League is home to 15 Major League teams and the sport had its own type of double play on Sunday.
Boston's Mookie Betts, a highly touted player in his second season has been red-hot this spring. He kept up his torrid hitting with this well-struck drive that went for an inside-the park homer in Fort Myers.
The Mets and the Yankees had an inside-the-park homer as well on Sunday in Port St. Lucie, but with more serious implications. Yankee rookie Jose Pirela crashed face-first into the centre-field wall attempting to catch a ball hit by the Mets' Juan Lagares. Take a look.
Lagares got his inside-the-parker but Pirela was transported to a local hospital with a concussion. He underwent an MRI for head and neck injuries, but was released from the hospital Sunday night.
Denny does a double too
Not as unusual but certainly a commendable feat was the back-to-back gold medal performances by Fort St. John, B.C.'s Denny Morrison at the final World Cup speed skating event of the season in Erfurt, Germany.
Morrison raced to gold Saturday in the 1,000, something he's accomplished eight times in his career.
Then he came right back Sunday to win the 1,500 in a bit of an upset. Morrison was fifth in the standings going into the race but his victory vaulted him to the top of the rankings so he earned the World Cup 1,500 title.
Double the pleasure.
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