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Mill boys pitching pennies on the street, 1916. Pitching pennies is a game played with coins. Players take turns to throw a coin at a wall, from some distance away, and the coin which lands closest to the wall is the winner. In Britain the game is also known as pap, penny up or penny up the wall and it is referred to as pitch-and-toss in ...
World Series Game Game date Visiting starting pitcher IP Home starting pitcher IP 2020 World Series: Game 1 October 20 Tyler Glasnow, TB (L, 0–1) 4.1 Clayton Kershaw, LAD (W, 2–2) 6 Game 2 October 21 Blake Snell, TB 4.2 Tony Gonsolin, LAD (L, 0–1) 1.1 Game 3 October 23 Walker Buehler, LAD (W, 1–0) 6 Charlie Morton, TB (L, 0–1) 4.1 Game 4
The Yankees became the first team to win the World Series four years in a row. The seventh Major League Baseball All-Star Game was played on July 11, hosted by the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York, New York , with the American League winning, 3–1.
The perfect game thrown by Don Larsen in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series is the only postseason perfect game in major league history and one of only three postseason no-hitters. The first two major league perfect games, and the only two of the premodern era, were thrown in 1880, five days apart.
October 6 – The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers, 5–2, in Game 7 of the World Series to win their eleventh World Championship, four games to three. This was the first World Series involving a nonwhite player, as Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson had racially integrated Major League Baseball at the beginning of the season. It ...
The next year, the A’s won the World Series. In 1973, Blue engineered his second 20-win season as part of the team's successful title defense. Following an Oakland three-peat in 1974, Blue ...
Due to various injuries and fatigue, Peavy was limited to only pitching in 19 games in 2011. Peavy started 18 games and came out of the bullpen once for the first time ever in his MLB career. Peavy finished the season posting a win–loss record of 7–7 with an ERA of 4.92 and 95 strikeouts.
Kenley Jansen, the active leader and 36th all-time in games played as a pitcher. John Franco holds the National League record. Mariano Rivera holds the American League record, as well as the record for right-handed pitchers. Hoyt Wilhelm held the major league record for 30 years. Cy Young held the major league record for 63 years.