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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 | Print Entry

The mailbox at Useless Information headquarters has been more overstuffed than usual this week. So let's tackle some of your Questions We Desperately Need to Know the Answer to or We Might Not Be Able to Sleep for a Month:

1. BALKAMANIA
After watching Armando Benitez pack a two-balk inning and a walk-off home run into one action-packed (12th) inning Tuesday, loyal reader Pat Berger wondered how many games have featured:

• A home run to start the game.
• A home run to end the game.
• And a pitcher balking twice in the same inning.  
 

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  • Jayson Stark Jayson Stark

    Jayson Stark has been a senior baseball writer for ESPN.com since 2000. His regular contributions include the newsy Rumblings and Grumblings column and his tilted look inside baseball's numbers and quirks, the Useless Information Department.

    Stark also makes regular television appearances on "SportsCenter," "The Hot List" and "Baseball Tonight." He is a regular ESPN Radio guest of "Mike & Mike in the Morning" (Wednesdays), "GameNight" (Thursdays) and the "Sports Bash" (Tuesdays), as well as numerous other shows on the network.

    Before arriving at ESPN, Stark worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer for 21 years. He was twice named Pennsylvania's sportswriter of the year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.

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