Inside-the-park home runs are pretty rare, but a walkoff inside-the-parker is almost unheard of.
Ben Gamel, the center fielder for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, broke a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the ninth inning Monday with a walkoff inside-the-park home run against the Pawtucket Red Sox. The RailRiders are the Triple-A affiliate of the Yankees, so getting a walkoff win against the top farm club of their arch-rivals was even better.
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Gamel, whose older brother, Mat, played five seasons with the Brewers, is a 23-year-old Jacksonville, Fla., native and was drafted by the Yankees in the 10th round of the 2010 draft.
The walkoff homer capped a 2-for-5 night for Gamel, who had a double earlier in the night. When the left-hander came to bat in the ninth, he slapped a line drive to right that got by a diving Jonathan Roof and rolled to the wall. By the time Pawtucket center fielder Jemile Weeks got to the ball, Gamel was rounding third and beat the relay throw home with a head-first slide.