AUTHOR: Ryan Armbrust
DATE: 1:52:00 AM
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c351/r84x/kiger.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 298px;" src="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c351/r84x/kiger.png" alt="" border="0" /></a>Here's an interesting bit of trivia from yesterday's loss.

When Mark Kiger entered the game in the bottom of the 8th as a defensive replacement, he made a major league first.

He became the <a href="http://www.baseballmusings.com/archives/018026.php">first player in major league history to make his big league debut in the postseason</a>. That's pretty amazing.

Also as a result of his entry into the game, there seems to have been a spike of google searches on Mark Kiger, and a lot of them seem to be leading people... <a href="http://thepastime.net/2006/10/mark-kiger-who.html">here.</a> Overnight, this humble blog has become the <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=mark+kiger&start=0&amp;amp;ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official">6th ranked site when you google him</a>. If you throw out the statistics-only results, <a href="http://www.autograph-cards.com/s1_Mark_Kiger.asp">autographed card</a>, and <a href="http://www.athleticsnation.com/story/2005/2/17/8497/89466">AN comment</a>, <a href="http://thepastime.net/2006/10/mark-kiger-who.html">The Pastime is the top ranked source on Mark Kiger</a> on Google.

Here's hoping Kiger doesn't become the only player to have played in only a postseason game, and not a regular season game, and that I can write more about his days as an Oakland A.<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div>
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