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In the first World Series games played in the Bronx in 15 years, the Braves blew out the Yankees by a 12–1 score, and then prevailed in Game 2 by a 4–0 shutout thanks to a stellar pitching performance by Greg Maddux to go up 2–0 in the series headed back to Atlanta. However, the Yankees would take Game 3 by a 5–2 score to get on the ...
Joltin' Joe" actually hit in 57 straight MLB games – singling in the 1941 All-Star game held mid-streak [94] – and 73 out of 74 regular season games, starting a 17-game streak the day after his 56-game one ended. [95] He also holds the second longest streak in minor league baseball history, 61 games, set in 1933. [94]
May 31 – Unbeaten Roger Clemens is the first 10-game winner in the majors, as the Toronto Blue Jays romp 13–3 over the Oakland Athletics. May 31 – Ila Borders of the St. Paul Saints of the Northern League faces three Sioux Falls Canaries batters, and surrenders three earned runs, in her professional baseball debut. The Canaries, who led 4 ...
The Chicago White Sox celebrate after defeating the Minnesota Twins 1–0 to win the 2008 American League Central. A tie-breaker was required in Major League Baseball (MLB) when two or more teams were tied at the end of the regular season for a postseason position such as a league pennant (prior to the introduction of the League Championship Series in 1969), a division title, or a wild card spot.
As of July 30, 2024, there have been 23 pitchers who have beaten all 30 teams.Only 16 teams have had a pitcher accomplish the feat while on their roster, with the San Francisco Giants and New York Yankees the only franchises to have three such pitchers: Randy Johnson, Barry Zito, and Tim Hudson for the Giants, and Kevin Brown, Javier Vázquez, and Gerrit Cole for the Yankees.
In 2006, Jim "Mudcat" Grant wrote a book titled "The Black Aces: Baseball's Only African-American Twenty-Game Winners." Celebrated in its pages were the members of an exclusive club: The African ...
The game will feature two classic teams from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which ran from 1943-54 and was the only professional baseball played during World War II.
Out of the Park Baseball 2007 the eighth iteration of the game, was released on March 23, 2007, to much better reviews than its predecessor. [3] Out of the Park Baseball 2007 was Metacritic 's second highest rated game on the PC platform with a score of 96 out of 100, scoring higher than The Orange Box , and second to Half-Life 2 . [ 4 ]