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When Bob Boone became the first player to catch 2,000 major league games in 1988, it was over a quarter century after every other non-pitching position had seen a player reach that milestone. But in recent decades, the workload of top major league catchers has gradually increased, and the top ten career leaders all made their major league ...
As of 2019, 47 different players have recorded at least six hits in an extra-inning Major League Baseball (MLB) game. Only Jimmie Foxx has accomplished the feat more than once in his career [ 13 ] and no player has ever amassed more than nine hits in a game, with Johnny Burnett holding that distinction. [ 261 ]
6) Shohei Ohtani becomes baseball's first member of the 50-50 club Shohei Ohtani is the greatest baseball player on planet Earth. Even when he is unable to pitch, he is making history.
A surprise trip to Dodger Stadium became the best day of a young Dodger fan’s life. When Freddie Freeman hit a walk-off grand slam to save the Dodgers who were trailing 3-2 in the bottom of the ...
Keeping the no-hitter alive (part I) Frelick's unreal catch Sept. 10, 2023 momentarily preserved an extra-inning no-hitter when he crashed into the outfield wall hauling in Anthony Volpe's liner ...
1× NPB All-Star Masato Akamatsu ( 赤松 真人 , Akamatsu Masato , born September 6, 1982, in Fushimi Ward , Kyoto City ) is a Nippon Professional Baseball player. He is currently with the Hiroshima Toyo Carp .
Johnny Vander Meer's elusive record of back-to-back no-hitters in 1938 has been described as "the most unbreakable of all baseball records" [1] by LIFE. Some Major League Baseball (MLB) records are widely regarded as "unbreakable" because they were set by freak occurrence or under rules, techniques, or other circumstances that have since changed.
The baseball gods did not wait long to test Pete Crow-Armstrong and his heralded Gold Glove-caliber defense in center field. Three batters into the bottom of the first inning in his first big ...