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The 2024 Arizona Diamondbacks season was the franchise's 27th season in Major League Baseball and their 27th season at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, as members of the National League West.
On April 18, the Boston Braves become the fifth team in MLB to break the color line when they fielded Sam Jethroe. [1] The only no-hitter of the season was pitched by Vern Bickford on August 9, in the Boston Braves 7–0 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers. [2] [3] This season saw the first use of a bullpen car, by the Cleveland Indians. [4]
Other highlights included Paul Molitor's 39-game hitting streak, the seventh-longest streak in MLB history and second-longest streak post-World War Two (as of 2024), [1] and Juan Nieves tossing the first no-hitter in Brewers history on April 15 with a 7-0 blanking of the Baltimore Orioles.
The 1989 Milwaukee Brewers season was the 20th season for the Brewers in Milwaukee, and their 21st overall.The Brewers finished fourth in the American League East with a record of 81 wins and 81 losses.
While Anderson stumbles in his only MLB season in 1959, batting .218 in 152 games with only 12 extra-base hits, he will return to the majors in 1970 for a 26-year career as a Baseball Hall of Fame manager. December 30 – The Dodgers release team captain, future Hall-of-Fame shortstop and 16-year club veteran Pee Wee Reese.
The 1997 Major League Baseball season was the inaugural season for Interleague play, as well as the final season in the American League for the Milwaukee Brewers before moving to the NL the following season.
The 2011 Major League Baseball wild card chase (also known as Game 162) was a playoff chase involving the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays in the American League and the Atlanta Braves and St. Louis Cardinals in the National League.