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On August 7, 2006, Bonds smashed a baseball 465 feet off of Chad Billingsley. Nevertheless, the wind was there to help Holliday whether he wanted it to or not. You're destined to gain an edge over your friends with advice from the award-winning FBT crew. Holliday’s solo shot broke a scoreless tie in what had been a fantastic pitching duel. The blast drove Rockies fans into a frenzy, and it woke up Colorado’s bat.
For the 2000 season, he totaled 510 plate appearances, successfully collected 126 hits, 28 doubles, two triples, seven home runs, drove in 72 runs, and batted .274 with a .335 on-base percentage and .389 slugging percentage. He spent 112 games at third base, was charged with 32 errors in 300 total chances for a fielding percentage of .893, and turned 13 double plays. He was named the Carolina League Player of the Month for June, batting .324 with seven multi-hit games, three doubles, seven home runs, and 22 RBI.
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In the April 29 contest against the Braves, Holliday hit his first career walk-off home run in the bottom of the 11th off Bob Wickman to provide a 9–7 victory. From May 22 to June 7, he established a new career-high 15 game hitting streak. In 87 first half games, Holliday totaled 30 doubles, 15 home runs, 69 RBI, 122 hits, a .341 average, and a .573 slugging percentage. NL players and coaches selected him in with 725 votes to play in the All-Star Game at AT&T Park in San Francisco for the second straight season. In Holliday's inaugural professional season, the Rockies assigned him to their Arizona League affiliate, who finished with a 42–14 record and won the league championship.
The Rockies posted the largest comeback in team history in a nine-run deficit on July 4 against the Florida Marlins. After the Marlins led 13–4, Holliday provided two home runs, including a grand slam to reduce the Marlins' lead to 17–16 in an eventual 18–17 win. On July 6, Holliday was named a reserve outfielder for National League in the All-Star Game for the third consecutive year. He replaced Chicago Cubs outfielder Alfonso Soriano, who did not play due to injury, as the starter in right field, and hit a solo home run in the top of the fifth inning. For the month of July, he batted .370 with eight home runs and 24 RBI, .660 slugging percentage and 24 runs scored in 27 games. Holliday's August totals included 11 stolen bases and 30 runs scored in 28 games, six home runs, nine doubles and a .392 on-base percentage.
Matt Holliday slugs three-run home run in Game 1 win
July 20, 2013 St. Louis Cardinals placed LF Matt Holliday on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to July 12, 2013. August 13, 2016 St. Louis Cardinals placed LF Matt Holliday on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to August 12, 2016. June 28, 2017 New York Yankees placed DH Matt Holliday on the 10-day disabled list retroactive to June 25, 2017. August 6, 2017 New York Yankees placed DH Matt Holliday on the 10-day disabled list retroactive to August 5, 2017.
His overall totals with the club included 93 games played while batting .286 with 11 home runs and 54 RBI. In a 12-game span from September 9–20, he hit 11 home runs; only Alex Rodríguez matched that feat in 2007. One of the home runs was the 100th of his career and his 200th hit of the season, occurring on September 19 in a 9–8 victory over the Dodgers.
Matt Holliday
When he dropped a soft liner in the ninth inning of Game 2 of the NLDS, turning a 2–1 lead into a 3–2 loss, I cried in my parents’ car on a dark street in New Orleans, refusing to get out for almost a half an hour while I composed myself. Matt's best friend was dating a friend of Leslee's, and they wanted to do a double date, so her friend asked if she would go with Matt. The Hollidays currently reside in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and Jupiter, Florida, and have four children. They have three sons, Jackson , Ethan (b. February 23, 2007), and Reed (b. July 24, 2013) and a daughter, Gracyn (b. November 7, 2009).
He continued to reap considerable vote totals in spite of missing a month, and eventually was chosen a starting outfielder for the first time in his career. He was rendered unable to play in the game due to the quadriceps injury. He spent much of his free time with his father, Tom Holliday, and brother, Josh, at the Oklahoma State University baseball field and training complex, where his father was a coach. There, the Holliday boys learned about the fundamentals of the sport, voluntarily trained and practiced, and watched future major leaguers such as Robin Ventura play and develop. In spite of the extensive time spent around the sport of baseball, Tom Holliday abstained from attempting to influence his sons on which sport or sports to concentrate. Holliday put an exclamation point on an eight-run seventh inning with his blast to left field, extending his team's lead to 10-6.
Arenado a little riskier with Cardinals
The most plausible reason I can find for this blast happening is overuse. Dessens had pitched four times in the span of six days leading up to the home run. In 2004, Holliday's rookie season, he finished fifth in NL Rookie of the Year voting. Some attributed his success to Coors Field and other's realized that he only had a 104 wRC+. In both cases though, voters and fans alike were stunned with the production they were seeing from a seventh round pick.
Holliday also became more active on his Twitter account and more readily availed himself as a guest on talk radio shows. Further, he befriended former teammate David Freese, who, shortly after Holliday's arrival in St. Louis in 2009, was arrested for driving under the influence. However, after becoming daily workout partners and socializing, teammates noted a "positive influence" on Freese.
In spite of missing significant time in 2015 and 2016, Holliday contributed 24.1 WAR during the life of his 2010−16 contract with St. Louis, worth $168.6 million in total contributions according to Fangraphs. After the 2022 season, Holliday rejoined the Cardinals as their bench coach. Sadly, it also comes with weird call reversals on players who leave the bag at second for 1/16th of a second, but that’s a story for another day and writer because I don’t feel like covering that, I can’t do everything, you know. In what was very possibly his last at-bat in St. Louis, he gave fans one final memory, maybe the unlikeliest of all. Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday went 2 for 4 with a three-run home run in his team's 10-9 win over the Dodgers Friday in Game 1 of the National League Division Series. But all of that ignores the Atkins home run in the seventh inning, an equally iffy call just as likely to have been overturned with instant replay with arguably as much of an impact on the final score.
The Rockies erupted thereafter, scoring eight runs in the eighth inning. "Cardinals Hall of Famer Matt Holliday returning to team as Oliver Marmol's bench coach". Holliday is a Christian and is part of a Bible study group with fellow Christian teammates.
As a senior, he earned All-American honors in football and baseball and also earned his region's Gatorade Player of the Year award in both sports. In his next-to-last football game for Stillwater, he helped bring the Pioneers back from a 42–21 deficit against Tulsa Union by throwing three touchdowns in the final six minutes of the game for a 43–42 score. With easy athletic skill, he showed marked talent in baseball, football and basketball as a youth.
After hitting a home run the day before on Opening Day of 2011, Holliday had an emergency appendectomy. He returned just nine days later despite a forecast to miss four to six weeks. In seven consecutive plate appearances against the Houston Astros on April 26 and 27, he reached base and did so in 10 of 15 plate appearances in that series.
Career Regular Season
He was in better health for the NLCS against Milwaukee, batting .435 with 10 hits, six runs scored, five RBI and a home run. The Cardinals defeated the Brewers, advancing to the World Series against the Texas Rangers. Holliday was injured again in Game 6 on a play diving into third base where catcher Mike Napoli and third baseman Adrián Beltré had picked him off, and the injury also kept him out of Game 7.
The home run would prove critical after the St. Louis bullpen allowed three runs in the eighth and ninth innings. Holliday has delivered 13 home runs in 230 postseason at-bats, eight of which have come with the Cardinals. Some circumstantial splits do exist that could explain this monster blast. Matt Holliday's prowess against right-handed pitchers is one of them; he hit 30 of 34 home runs off righties.
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