Brad Hawpe's Golden Sombrero

A golden sombrero is awarded to a player who manages to strike out four times in a single game (real golden sombrero not included). It's quite the feat unless you're Ryan Howard or Mark Reynolds. Unfortunately, cycles and no-hitters are all the rage nowadays. Not for me, though. I will pour over the box scores to bring you the finest at swinging and missing.

In honor of Brad Hawpe's first Golden Sombrero with the Rays, and it's a good one, I searched Youtube for an accurate depiction of his night at the plate using a pinata FAIL video. I think this sums it up.



Brad Hawpe swung just as wildly tonight but even when he made contact there was no candy. It was sad for everyone involved. Well, maybe not the pitchers. Hawpe went 0-0 with 4 strikeouts for a nice looking .000/.000/.000 line in the American League. Let's take a look at a whole lot of swinging and missing...

Bottom 2nd: Hawpe struck out swinging against Shaun Marcum. Hawpe took ball 1 befor swinging at the next 3 pitches.

Bottom 5th: Hawpe struck out swinging against Shaun Marcum. Only 2 swinging strikes at this at bat while he took 1 looking and a ball.

Bottom 7th: Hawpe struck out swinging against Shawn Camp. Again it was a looking strike and a ball and 2 swinging strikes. The man knows what he likes.

Bottom 8th: Hawpe struck out swinging against Camp.

It would take a lot more research but it appears that Hawpe struggles against pitchers with some form of the first name Shawn.

Brad Hawpe's Golden Sombrero

A golden sombrero is awarded to a player who manages to strike out four times in a single game (real golden sombrero not included). It's quite the feat unless you're Ryan Howard or Mark Reynolds. Unfortunately, cycles and no-hitters are all the rage nowadays. Not for me, though. I will pour over the box scores to bring you the finest at swinging and missing.

It didn't take a lot of hard research for me to find the other Golden Sombrero last night. Brad Hawpe went 0-4 with 4 strikeouts to join teammate Dexter Fowler in the giant shiny Mexican hat club. When was the last time two teammates had 4 strikeouts? No seriously, when was it? I don't have all day to sit on Baseball-Reference and Elias doesn't return my calls even when I tell them I'm really Jayson Stark. I have to believe it's been a while so that calls for a special video.



That's some pretty solid nonsense. Let's see how Hawpe racked up those K's.

Bottom 1st: Hawpe struck out swinging against Kevin Correia.

Bottom 3rd: Hawpe struck out swinging against Correia again. I don't know what-the-Strasburg got into Correia but he was sitting batters down, striking out 8 in 5 innings.

Bottom 6th: Hawpe struck out swinging against Joe Thatcher.

Bottom 7th: Hawpe struck out swinging against Ryan Webb. Four straight swinging strikeouts. I think somebody is trying to get on my good side.