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New York Mets, August 23, 2019 (in a 14-inning game); Los Angeles Dodgers, June 2, 2017 (in a 12-inning game); Chicago Cubs, May 7, 2017 (in an 18-inning game); and California Angels, July 9, 1971 (in a 20-inning game). Most strikeouts in a game of any length by both teams. 48 in an 18-inning game between the Cubs and Yankees on May 7, 2017 [26]
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 ]
The March 1993 issue of Baseball Digest pronounced it the greatest baseball comeback ever, [27] as did John Smoltz immediately after the game. [16] A 2006 study by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette pronounced Cabrera's game-winning single the eighth-"clutchest" hit in MLB history. [ 28 ]
John Smoltz left the seventh game trailing, but ended up with a no-decision as the Braves mounted a dramatic ninth-inning comeback. Smoltz would ultimately record two wins over 3 games started with only 6 earned runs allowed over 20+1⁄3 innings (the most innings of any pitcher in the series), and 19 strikeouts. [ 13 ]
The Cleveland Indians established a new Major League record for most consecutive games won in stunning fashion on Thursday night, scoring a run each in the ninth and 10th innings to steal a 3-2 ...
Shohei Ohtani is baseball's fastest 40-40 man. The Japanese superstar blasted a two-out grand slam in the ninth inning for his 40th homer after earlier stealing his 40th base, lifting the Los ...
The only other Major Leaguers to have 7 or more RBIs in an inning are Fernando Tatís, who hit two grand slams as a member of the Cardinals to collect 8 RBIs against the Dodgers in the third inning on April 23, 1999, and Ed Cartwright, who hit a 3-run homer and a grand slam in the 3rd inning on September 23, 1890, for 7 RBIs. Rodriguez also ...
In Game 6, the Mets turned a 3–0 ninth-inning deficit into a sixteen-inning marathon victory to clinch the National League pennant and earn their third World Series appearance, their first since 1973. After New York scored three runs in the top of the 9th to force extra innings, they scored three more runs in the top of the 16th.