Come To Think of It: White Sox Roll Double 300s; No This Isn't Bowling

Jermaine Dye and Paul Konerko hit back-to-back homers for the White Sox this afternoon. But what was really unusual about those consecutive shots?

The homers were the 300th career taters for each of the players.

John Dewan's Stat of the Week ought to do a probability assessment on the likelihood of that statistical anomaly.

Well, though the baseball season is young, that wasn't the only strange-but-true scenario in baseball this week.

Here are a few more:

• Eleven of Baseball Prospectus' top 100 prospects ended up on major league rosters this spring. Here's where.

• The Dodgers-Diamondbacks game on Sunday featured the little-known fourth-out rule. It's one of the crazy things that we love about this game.

• Thirteen players have spent at least 1,000 games with one team. Bill Chuck presents a list of the players who have played the most games with their current teams.

• The Brewers Yovani Gallardo hit a three-run homer off Randy Johnson Wednesday night. It turns out Gallardo was the first pitcher to homer off Johnson. Ever.
  

• You would think a guy named Church would do well on Easter Sunday. Yet, Mets OF Ryan Church only managed to go 1-for-4 yesterday.
• Though it's early, the Pittsburgh Pirates are actually above .500 and pulled off a triple play.
• It was a tough first week for the defending Cy Young award winners. The Giants' Tim Lincecum has been hit hard thus far, while the Indians' Cliff Lee has already allowed more hits than he did in the entire month of April in 2008.
• Speaking of the Indians, you have to go back 95 years to find a worse start to a season for the Tribe than the 0-5 they endured in 2009.
• According to the Elias Sports Bureau, in 2008 only one starting pitcher threw first-pitch balls to eight consecutive batters. Yet it has happened three times already this year.