This Great Game

The Online Book of Baseball History; we're here to talk about the past (and the present).

[Codify @CodifyBaseball]

After pitching just 8 pitches there, Jacob Misiorowski has thrown the 5 fastest pitches in Coors Field history.

[Codify @CodifyBaseball]

PCA catches everything he sees but unfortunately he didn't see this one...

[Sarah Langs @SlangsOnSports]

This is the second time in his career that Shohei Ohtani has reached base safely 5+ times in a game he pitched

That’s tied for the most such games since at least 1900, with:

Mel Parnell
Wes Ferrell
Jimmy Callahan

[OptaSTATS @OptaSTATS]

Tonight was Shohei Ohtani's 11th career game where he pitched 5.0+ innings and had more or as many base hits as he allowed.

The only MLB player in the modern era with more such games is Walter Johnson (16).

[Underdog MLB @UnderdogMLB]

Jo Adell helps this one over the yellow line for a homer

[Sarah Langs @SlangsOnSports]

Kyle Harrison’s 1.57 ERA is the second-lowest in a pitcher’s first 11 starts with the Brewers, behind only:

2008 CC Sabathia: 1.43

[OptaSTATS @OptaSTATS]

So far this season:

Jacob Misiorowski: 1.65 ERA, 13.69 K/9
Kyle Harrison: 1.57 ERA, 11.46 K/9

Since ERA became official in both leagues in 1913, no other MLB team has had 2 pitchers with a sub-2.00 ERA & 11.00+ K/9 at the end of any day in June or later (min. 10 starts each).

[Codify @CodifyBaseball]

MLB umpires have missed ~9,000 balls and strikes calls this year but ~2,000 have been overturned with ABS challenges.

[This Great Game @ThisGreatGame]

The 19 runs, 25 hits and nine doubles by the #SFGiants today at Colorado against the #Rockies are all the most collected by a team in one game this season.

Yes, they even won—19-6.

[This Great Game @ThisGreatGame]

Nine days ago, the #White Sox accumulated all nine of their runs and all five of their hits in one inning against the #SFGiants. It was a record for a nine-inning game.

Today, the #Yankees blew that record away with all of their 13 R and 11 H in the 3rd inning against the A's.

[Bob Nightengale @BNightengale]

The Dodgers' 1-hit the Colorado Rockies, 4-1, as Shohei Ohtani becomes the first Dodgers pitcher since Don Drysdale in 1959 to pitch 6 no-hit innings and homer in the same game.

[Jessica Brand @JessicaDBrand]

A win today vs. KC #Yankees would be T-4th-longest win streak vs. a given opponent in franchise history, with PS:

-21 vs SLB, 5/10 - 9/10, 27
-19 vs BAL, 4/4/19 - 9/4/20
-16 vs A's 5/8 - 9/29, 1919
-14 vs A's 9/13/56 - 7/12/57; 14 vs. KC 10/9/24 - now

h/t: @RyanRuocco inspiring

[Sarah Langs @SlangsOnSports]

Most consecutive scoreless outings of 7+ innings, since at least 1900:

1988 Orel Hershiser: 6
1968 Don Drysdale: 6
2026 Cristopher Sánchez: 5 *active
2007 Brandon Webb: 5
1968 Bob Gibson: 5
1904 Doc White: 5

[Sarah Langs @SlangsOnSports]

David Sandlin’s 18 straight retired batters are the most by a White Sox pitcher who was making his debut over at least the last 100 years

h/t @EliasSports

[MLB @MLB]

David Sandlin has retired 18 straight batters since giving up a leadoff homer in his big league debut!

[OptaSTATS @OptaSTATS]

Cristopher Sánchez of the @Phillies is the only MLB pitcher in the modern era with 40+ strikeouts and no runs allowed in a calendar month.

[This Great Game @ThisGreatGame]

The #Cubs, currently in last place in the NL Central with a 10-game losing streak, would be leading the AL West by two games.

[This Great Game @ThisGreatGame]

The six home runs hit by the #Yankees in their 15-1 win at Kansas City tied the record for the most by a team in one game at Kauffman Stadium.

Nine other teams have also hit six HRs in a game at the 53-year-old venue.

None of them were the #Royals.

[This Great Game @ThisGreatGame]

Maybe the position player will pitch better.