Baseball adapted several of its rules from cricket, with one notable similarity being the concept of innings. Several teams this week proved that, as in cricket, sometimes you need only two innings-- the first and the last. Many thanks to our friends at Baseball Reference and the Elias Sports Bureau for research assistance.

The Astros erupted for nine runs in the first inning Friday, with leadoff hitter George Springer among those batting twice. He became the first player to triple and hit a grand slam in the same inning since Brandon Inge did it in 2004, and the first leadoff hitter with a first-inning slam since the Mariners batted around against the Angels on April 15, 1986, and Danny Tartabull did the honors. Friday's nine runs were the most ever scored by Houston in the opening frame of a road game.

Charlie Blackmon led off Tuesday's game at Yankee Stadium with a home run. Just two minutes later, Tim Anderson of the White Sox did likewise at Fenway Park. Both road teams went on to win. It was the first time in 16 years that visiting teams hit leadoff homers at those two stadiums on the same day. On July 21, 2000, Gerald Williams took Dwight Gooden deep in the Bronx (though that would be the Rays' only run) and Jose Valentin did the honors in Boston off Tim Wakefield.

Justin Upton's second home run gave Detroit a 12-inning win over Seattle on Monday. He became the first Tiger with a multihomer game that included a walk-off in extras since Cecil Fielder beat the Twins on June 3, 1994.

Three days later the Tigers won the series finale on a 10th-inning wild pitch, the first time Detroit had won a game in that fashion since June 20, 1985. Mike Armstrong of the Yankees was brought in to face Lance Parrish, but instead uncorked the game winner to score Lou Whitaker from third.

Kelly Johnson's home run in the 11th provided the only scoring in Saturday's Mets/Braves game, the first 1-0 contest this year to be decided by a solo homer in extras. The Braves had not lost such a game since the next-to-last outing of the 1999 season (then-Marlin Cliff Floyd hit the homer), and the Mets hadn't won one since one of the most memorable games in Mets history -- Oct. 1, 1985, when Darryl Strawberry went deep in St. Louis to keep the Mets alive in their chase for first place in the final week of the season.

Adam Lind brought Safeco Field to its feet Friday with a three-run walk-off homer off Cardinals (former) closer Trevor Rosenthal. It was just the third walk-off homer in Mariners history to be hit with the team trailing by two or three runs. The others were by Tom Paciorek against the Yankees in 1981 and Phil Bradley versus the Twins in 1985. Both were hit off Ron Davis (father of Ike Davis).

More from the week

Freddy Galvis, Thursday: First Phillies hitter with a homer, a triple and five RBIs since Shane Victorino in 2010. First in team history to do it batting eighth or ninth.

Yankees, Wednesday: First time in team history with a grand slam (Chase Headley) and a separate walk-off homer (Starlin Castro) in same game.

Marlins, Friday: First team to have two hits in a game, but one of them be a grand slam, since Sept. 21, 1996 (Eddie Murray for Orioles versus Blue Jays).

Kurt Suzuki, Tuesday: Second player in Twins/Senators history with four hits and six RBIs batting eighth or ninth. Other was pitcher Pete Appleton against the Red Sox on May 30, 1937.

White Sox, Saturday: Third team in major league history to hit seven home runs and lose. First not named the Tigers (who did it in both 1995 and 2004).