The Rockies and Marlins play a doubleheader‚ necessitated by a snowout on April 27th and 28th. The Rockies start two Kims‚ Sunny and Byung-Hyun and win, 4 – 3 and 5 – 3. Sunny Kim was picked up on waivers August 5th from the Nationals. The opener is won in the 11th on Dustan Mohr’s walk-off homer with two out. In the second game, Byung-Hyun Kim pitches 7 strong innings for the win. Danny Ardoin hits a two-run home run in the bottom of the 6th for the lead. The last time two pitchers with the same name started in a doubleheader was in 1974‚ when the Cleveland Indians started brothers Gaylord and Jim Perry against the Boston Red Sox.

August 8, 2005August 9, 2019 This Day In Baseball

On August 8, 2005 — The Rockies and Marlins play a doubleheader‚ necessitated by a snowout on April 27th and 28th. The Rockies start two Kims‚ Sunny and Byung-Hyun and win, 4 – 3 and 5 – 3. Sunny Kim was picked up on waivers August 5th from the Nationals. The opener is won in the 11th on Dustan Mohr’s walk-off homer with two out. In the second game, Byung-Hyun Kim pitches 7 strong innings for the win. Danny Ardoin hits a two-run home run in the bottom of the 6th for the lead. The last time two pitchers with the same name started in a doubleheader was in 1974‚ when the Cleveland Indians started brothers Gaylord and Jim Perry against the Boston Red Sox.

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