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On August 4, 2009, Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Evan Longoria went 2-for-6, recording a golden sombrero and two home runs. The second home run was a walk off home run.This feat was also accomplished by Brandon Moss of the Oakland Athletics on April 30, 2013 in a 19-inning game against the Los Angeles Angels.
The 1899 Cleveland Spiders own the worst single-season record of all time (minimum 120 games) and for all eras, finishing at 20–134 (.130 percentage) in the final year of the National League's 12-team era in the 1890s; for comparison, this projects to 21–141 under the current 162-game schedule, and Pythagorean expectation based on the Spiders' results and the current 162-game schedule ...
9 or more home runs by one team in a game 2: Baseball Almanac: 5 or more home runs by one team in an inning 2 f: Wikipedia [better source needed] 3 grand slams by both teams in a game 3: Baseball Almanac: 3 sacrifice flies by one team in a single inning [d] 4: Baseball Almanac: 4 home runs by 4 consecutive batters 10 g: MLB.com: 3 grand slams ...
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 ...
In each of the three years, the Athletics won over 100 games. While the 1927 New York Yankees, whose batting order was known as the Murderers' Row, are remembered as one of the best teams in baseball history, the Athletics teams of the late 1920s and early 1930s are largely forgotten. [6]
Excluding the possibility of shortened seasons and/or canceled games not being made up, a team would need to lose 141 games over a 162-game season to record a .130 winning percentage (this yields a .129 winning percentage if the traditional rounding to three decimal places is ignored). [citation needed]
In certain sports, a magic number is a number used to indicate how close a front-running team is to clinching a division title and/or a playoff spot. It represents the total of additional wins by the front-running team or additional losses (or any combination thereof) by the rival teams after which it is mathematically impossible for the rival teams to capture the title in the remaining number ...
A tennis scoreboard. Cyril Saulnier has lost the first two sets.. In sport, score is a quantitative measure of the relative performance of opponents in a sporting discipline. . Score is normally measured in the abstract unit of points, and events in the competition can raise or lower the score of the involved part