May 11, 2015: Yunel Escobar
Earlier in the season, we commented on National’s third baseman Yunel Escobar having 5 singles in a game. Clearly, he enjoyed the feeling, because exactly one week later he did it again. With another 5-5 performance against the Diamondbacks Monday night, Escobar becomes the first player this season with multiple 5 hit games and just the fourth player since 2000 with multiple 5 single games in one season, joining Nomar Garciaparra, Ichiro Suzuki, and Juan Pierre, pretty good company to be in. He also became the first third baseman to have multiple 5 hitters since Adam Kennedy in 2009. He has done all of this by mid-May, so if he can eke out another great game, he could start reaching some even more impressive “first since...” stats.
