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The American League holds the longest streak for finishing with the better record in interleague play, at 14 straight seasons, dating back from 2004 through 2017. [16] 2006 was the most lopsided season in interleague history, with American League teams posting a 154–98 record against their National League counterparts. [16]
The New York Yankees have the highest all-time regular season win–loss percentage (.569) in Major League Baseball history. Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, which consists of a total of 30 teams—15 teams in the National League (NL) and 15 in the American League (AL). The NL and AL were formed in 1876 and ...
List of Major League Baseball All-Star Game records; List of Major League Baseball attendance records; List of Major League Baseball postseason records. List of World Series career records; List of World Series single-game records; List of World Series single-series records
Josh Gibson, who played 510 game in the Negro League, holds the record for highest batting average, slugging percentage, and on-base plus slugging in a career. Barry Bonds holds the career home run and single-season home run records. Ichiro Suzuki collected 262 hits in 2004, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old record for most hits in a season.
Streaks like this are going to be much rarer going forward, however, as MLB adjusted its scheduling in 2023 by expanding the number of interleague games for each team from 20 games per year to 46 ...
In baseball's new balanced schedule, these featured matchups could use some new spice — and some new names.
Meanwhile, Hack Wilson's 191 RBI season has stood as a record since 1930, while Albert Belle became the first (and only) player to collect 50 doubles and 50 home runs in a season when he did so in ...
From 2002 to 2012, all interleague games were played prior to the All-Star Game. Most games were played in June, though May games have been scheduled since 2005. Among the 224 interleague pairs of teams, 11 played six games every year, which were scheduled in two three-game series "home and home", or one at each home ballpark.