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⚾ Which slugger hit 868 career home runs — more than anyone in professional baseball history?
A) Josh Gibson · B) Sadaharu Oh · C) Hank Aaron · D) Barry Bonds
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@JustBB_Media@gsimbeck Vin Scully on Bo Jackson's leadoff tank: "He almost hit it out of state."
Wade Boggs then went back-to-back to tie the game — and hardly anyone has mentioned it since.🫡
From Ichiro Suzuki in 2007 to Ted Williams in 1946, these are some of the most memorable performances in MLB All-Star Game history.
Our @gsimbeck takes a look back at the game's best moments:
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@JeffPassan The 2000 USA gold medal is still one of baseball's great forgotten stories — minor leaguers & a 73-year-old Tommy Lasorda beating a Cuba team that had gone 18-0 across two Olympics.
Lasorda said before he left that he'd end up a trivia question. He was right. 🥇
A Midsummer Night's Dream. ⭐
Today's Caught Looking is the Ghosts of All-Star Games Past — the swings, the staredowns, the moments that outlived every final score.
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Six straight homers. In Philadelphia. To beat Schwarber by one.
Jordan Walker is 24 years old and he just silenced a city that came to crown one of its own. 💣
Since ESPN began tracking HR distance in 2006, only 1 HR has traveled at least 485 feet at Citizens Bank Park (including playoffs).
Willson Contreras launched a 490-foot bomb as the very first hitter of the 2026 Home Run Derby 🔥
@ChavezRavine7@KNBR Fair point. It honestly feels like there's a happy medium between Bochy letting Lincecum throw 148 and Perez & Jones getting pulled last week after 7 & 6 perfect innings because a spreadsheet said so.
One risks the arm, the other risks the reason people watch.
@coopincanada You wrote it yourself; Breeden was the OG gaijin hired gun.🫡 And Joe Cronin was Boston's player-manager in 1943. Called his own number in both games & went yard both times (2 3-run jacks); he set the AL pinch-hit HR record that season (5). Still stands. 💎
@baseballhall Covaleski's efficiency is the part that breaks your brain — he threw 72, 78 and 81 pitches in those three complete games.
Today, a starter's lucky to even be eligible for the W after 81 pitches, let alone finish what he started.
35 years ago today: 4 Orioles pitchers combined to no-hit the A's.
The wild part? The A's were the first team to ever throw a 4-pitcher no-no — Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Lindblad & Rollie Fingers, 1975.
They invented the thing that beat them.
(via The Baseball Buffet)
Baseball has a hundred names for a home run and still isn't satisfied.
Dinger. Tater. Four-bagger. Round-tripper. Bomb. Jack. Big fly. Coup de circuit. Long ball.
And the Ding Dong Johnson 🫡 @45PedroMartinez
Happy Derby Day. 💣
🎺 Call to the post.
Wrong Derby? Right vibe. Tomorrow’s Caught Looking is nine innings of Home Run Derby history — the bombs, the moonshots, the light tower power. Landing the morning of the real thing in Philly.
Chill the juleps. 🐎🥃
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