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The 2016 Major League Baseball season began on April 3, 2016, with a Sunday afternoon matchup between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Pirates, the two teams with the best regular-season records in 2015, at PNC Park in Pittsburgh.
Gray etched his name into the Rockies' book in surpassing the previous 14-strikeout performance of Darryl Kile, set on August 28, 1998. Gray also became the second Rockies pitcher to strike four batters in an inning, doing so in the second frame on a passed ball, and posted another team mark with six consecutive strikeouts. [149] September 18 :
The 2016 Philadelphia Phillies season was the 134th season in the history of the franchise, and its 13th season at Citizens Bank Park. They improved upon their 63–99 (.389) mark from the year before and finished with a record of 71–91 (.438) and fourth place in the National League East. They missed the playoffs for the fifth consecutive season.
In baseball, a strikeout occurs when a pitcher throws three strikes to a batter during his time at bat. [1] Twenty different pitchers have struck out at least 18 batters in a single nine-inning Major League Baseball (MLB) game, [a] the most recent being Max Scherzer of the Washington Nationals on May 11, 2016. [4]
The 2016 San Diego Padres season was their 48th season in MLB, and their 12th at Petco Park. The Padres finished with a record of 68 win and 94 losses, and spent most of the season trading with the Arizona Diamondbacks for the last-place spot in the National League West. The Padres set multiple records for offensive futility, becoming the first ...
Updated July 14, 2016 at 10:50 PM MLB Needs a Salary Cap The only of the four major sports with no form of a salary cap, the top MLB salaries have skyrocketed over recent years -- particularly ...
The 2016 New York Yankees season was the 114th season for the New York Yankees franchise. Throughout the season, the Yankees wore a #8 patch on their left sleeve in memory of Hall of Famer Yogi Berra who died in September 2015. [ 2 ]
Nearly five months into the first year of those deals, we thought it was time was right to take a look at the fattest contracts signed prior to 2016.