Ryan Zimmerman has certainly developed a flair for drama. Attempting to muscle his way into the All-Star game, last night marked the sixth time in Zimmerman's career that he has hit a walk-off homer.
However, what has gone relatively unnoticed is that this was the Zimmerman's fourth multi-homer game of the season. According to Baseball Reference, Zimmerman has had eight multi-homer games during his career, which means that 50% of those happened during this season alone. Let's go to the numbers after the jump:
| Rk | Date | Tm | Opp | Rslt | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | WPA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2010-07-06 | WSN | SDP | W 6-5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0.464 |
| 2 | 2010-05-30 | WSN | SDP | L 2-3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.161 |
| 3 | 2010-05-13 | WSN | COL | W 14-6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0.279 |
| 4 | 2010-04-30 | WSN | FLA | W 7-1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0.232 |
| 5 | 2009-05-11 | WSN | SFG | L 7-11 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.057 |
| 6 | 2009-04-27 | WSN | PHI | L 11-13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0.204 |
| 7 | 2008-05-07 | WSN | HOU | L 3-4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0.354 |
| 8 | 2007-08-04 | WSN | STL | W 12-1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.126 |
Two things can be noted from this info. The first is that multi-homer games for Zimmerman are correlating to wins this year, which was not the case in previous years. The second is that you can see Zimmerman really has a thing for Padres pitching.