Contreras brothers hit rare HRs in same inning

MILWAUKEE -- Catchers Willson and William Contreras became the 2nd brace of brothers to homer successful the aforesaid inning arsenic opponents successful baseball's modern epoch connected Saturday.

Both went heavy successful the ninth inning of the St. Louis Cardinals' 8-5 win implicit the Milwaukee Brewers that snapped the Cards' six-game skid.

Willson Contreras' ninth homer of the season, a solo changeable to right-center, gave St. Louis an 8-4 pb successful the apical of the ninth. William Contreras led disconnected the bottommost fractional of the inning with his sixth homer of the season, to near field.

The Contreras brothers are the archetypal to homer successful the aforesaid inning arsenic opponents since Rick (Boston Red Sox) and Wes Ferrell (Cleveland Indians) accomplished the feat connected July 19, 1933, erstwhile Rick's location tally came disconnected Wes.

As helium rounded archetypal basal aft his homer, Willson Contreras stared into the Brewers' dugout but didn't accidental thing to his member arsenic helium crossed location plate.

William Contreras shrugged disconnected the tensions betwixt his member and his teammates, saying, "When we're retired determination during the game, it's not precisely similar we're household members. We're retired determination competing.

"So yeah, if there's thing to beryllium discussed betwixt him and anyone else, they bash it," William added. "But yeah, we're retired determination to vie and he's playing his crippled and we're playing ours."

The past brothers to homer successful the aforesaid inning of a crippled were Josh and Bo Naylor for Cleveland connected April 10, 2024.