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Entering the 9th inning yesterday, the Reds were down by 6 runs and batting .226 as a team on the season.

No other MLB team in the modern era has come to the plate in the 9th inning with a deficit that large and a team batting average that low and won the game.

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In MLB history, only 2 players have had a 5-game span with:

10+ hits
HR in every game
multiple doubles
multiple walks
a stolen base

Those 2 players are Babe Ruth (June 10-14, 1921) & Tristan Peters (last 5 games).

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The @whitesox are the first team in MLB history to have 2 different rookies with a 5-game homer streak in the same season (Munetaka Murakami, Tristan Peters).

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Corbin Carroll has 16 triples in 129 games this season after he had 16 triples in his first 130 games in 2025.

He's the first MLB player to have 15+ triples through 130 player games in consecutive seasons since Earle Combs, Heinie Manush & Paul Waner in 1927 & 1928.

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Feats for Tristan Peters in 2026:

6 RBI in a game
5 times on base in a game (H/BB/HBP)
4 straight games with a HR
cycle
grand slam
walkoff HR

Only 2 others in MLB history have done all of that in one season: Jimmie Foxx (1933) & Joe DiMaggio (1937).

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Ryan Waldschmidt of the @Dbacks is the first rookie in MLB history to hit 2 walkoff homers while trailing in the same calendar month (August 7 vs. Dodgers, tonight vs. Cubs).

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The @Royals are the first AL team since the 1989 White Sox to win 8+ straight games after entering the streak at least 24 games below .500.

The only AL team to extend such a streak to nine games was the 1910 White Sox (nine-game run after entering at 51-80).

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There have been over 60,000 saves across MLB since saves became an official statistic in 1969.

Yohan Ramírez's save last night is the only one to include 3 strikeouts with the tying run in scoring position in the 12th inning or later.

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Cal Raleigh was hitting .159 this season entering tonight's game.

That's the lowest batting average entering a 3-homer game in MLB history (min. 100 PA entering the game).

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The @Phillies have had 5 wins this season after trailing with 2 outs & 2 strikes in the 9th inning (April 1, April 30, June 23, June 24 & today).

That's the most such wins by any MLB team in a single season since pitches were first tracked in 1988.

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Bryce Miller is the only MLB pitcher in the modern era to have his team lose by 15+ runs in back-to-back starts.

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Tonight, the @Reds 1-3 hitters recorded:

4 hits, 4 runs (Elly De La Cruz)
3 hits, 2 runs (Sal Stewart)
A cycle (JJ Bleday)

No other team's top of the order has reached those marks in a single game in the modern era.

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Pete Alonso recorded his 30th HR of the season last night against the Rays, becoming the fifth player in MLB history to hit 30 homers in at least seven of his first eight seasons, joining Albert Pujols (all eight), Ralph Kiner, Eddie Mathews and Mark Teixeira.

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In her last 16 games, Olivia Miles has made 40 three-pointers with the @minnesotalynx going 15-1 over that span.

She is the first rookie in WNBA or NBA history to make 40+ threes and win 15+ games over a 16-game span.

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Jacob Misiorowski has recorded 5+ strikeouts while allowing 3 or fewer earned runs in all 23 starts he's made this season.

That is the longest such streak to begin a season by any MLB pitcher since earned runs became official in both leagues in 1913.

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Every team in the AL West currently ranks in the bottom 10 in the majors in run differential.

No MLB division has ever had all of its teams finish in the bottom 10 in that category.

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Today, Cincinnati's Brock Burke became the only MLB pitcher since earned runs have been officially tracked in both the AL & NL (1913) to enter the game in the 9th inning or later and finish with this line -

0 earned runs
6+ runs allowed
2 or fewer hits allowed

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The @IndianaFever have scored 90+ points in nine consecutive road games.

The next-longest such streak by any team in @WNBA history is six straight by the Phoenix Mercury (spanning the 2009 & 2010 seasons).

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Rafael Flores Jr. of the @Pirates is the only player in MLB history with a pinch-hit HR and a game-tying HR in the bottom of the 9th in consecutive at-bats in the same game.

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Stewart's 5 game-winning 3-run homers this year:

April 15 vs. SF
April 25 vs. Det
June 16 vs. NYM
July 22 at Sea
August 19 vs. StL

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Sal Stewart of the @Reds has 5 game-winning 3-run homers this season (3-run homers that put team ahead to stay, excluding grand slams).

That's the most by any rookie in a single season in MLB history.