Here’s our weekly have a look at 10 mind-blowing notes from the final week in baseball (August 11-17).
What a second: Jon Singleton homered on Friday for the first time in additional than eight years. His hole between dwelling runs (8 years, 13 days) was the longest since Jake Peavy (9 years, 52 days from 2006 to ’15) and the longest by a place participant since Rafael Belliard (10 years, 144 days from 1987 to ’97), in response to the Elias Sports Bureau. And then he hit one other in that very same sport. Singleton went the longest in MLB historical past between homers amongst gamers to then hit two within the sport through which they snapped the drought.
Quite the day: Newly-acquired Nicky Lopez tallied 4 hits, together with a double and a homer, and had 5 RBIs within the Braves’ 21-3 win in Game 1 of a doubleheader Saturday. He completed the sport by throwing a scoreless ninth inning. Lopez turned the primary participant with no less than 4 hits, 5 RBIs and a scoreless pitching outing in the identical sport since RBI turned official in 1920.
Runs abound: With that 21-3 win in Game 1 and a 6-0 victory within the second sport of that doubleheader, the Braves had a plus-24 run differential on the day. It was the third-highest run differential in a doubleheader in Braves franchise historical past, behind solely a plus-32 on Aug. 21, 1894, towards the Reds and a plus-26 on Sept. 3, 1896, towards the Browns (now Cardinals).
Comeback season: In video games that ended virtually concurrently on Sunday, the Marlins gained regardless of trailing by 4 runs within the ninth, and the Nationals gained regardless of trailing by 5 within the ninth as effectively. It was the primary time since July 9, 2010, that two groups gained when trailing by no less than 4 runs within the ninth or in a while the identical day. That day, the Orioles trailed 6-2 within the ninth and gained 7-6 in extras, and the Phillies have been behind 7-1 within the ninth earlier than successful 9-7 in additional innings.
Rookie catchers: On Sunday, Giants rookie catcher Patrick Bailey hit a walk-off dwelling run. On April 25, Blake Sabol, additionally a rookie catcher for San Francisco, hit a walk-off dwelling run as effectively. The Giants turned the fourth staff to get two walk-off dwelling runs from rookie catchers in a season, becoming a member of the 2015 Tigers, 1952 Red Sox and 1923 Cubs. But every of these groups bought each such walk-off homers from the identical rookie catcher (James McCann in 2015, Sammy White in 1952 and Gabby Hartnett in 1923). That means the 2023 Giants are the one staff with walk-off dwelling runs from two completely different rookie catchers in a season in MLB historical past.
Another Acuña milestone: Ronald Acuña Jr. stole his fifty fifth base of the season on Sunday, and he had already reached 25 dwelling runs on the season. That gave him the eighth particular person season in MLB historical past with no less than 25 dwelling runs and 55 stolen bases and the primary since Rickey Henderson in 1990. As a reminder, no participant has ever had 30 homers and 60 stolen bases, which Acuña is on the precipice of.
Speedy Elly: In the second sport of a doubleheader on Sunday, Elly De La Cruz hit the tenth dwelling run of his profession. He entered the sport with 17 stolen bases, turning into the second-fastest participant by video games to 10 profession dwelling runs and 15 profession stolen bases since 1900. De La Cruz wanted 58 video games to succeed in these marks, yet another than Barry Bonds, who bought there in 57.
Feeling Witt-y: Bobby Witt Jr. hit an inside-the-park dwelling run on Monday, and he bought across the bases moderately rapidly. It took him simply 14.3 seconds to go home-to-home, the fourth-fastest home-to-home time tracked by Statcast (since 2015). The solely gamers with quicker instances are Byron Buxton (Aug. 18, 2017: 13.9 sec and Oct. 2, 2016: 14.1 sec) and Dee Strange-Gordon (June 30, 2015: 14.2 sec).
JULIOOO: Julio Rodríguez tallied back-to-back video games with no less than 4 hits on Wednesday and Thursday, marking the sixth such streak in Mariners historical past. He joins Strange-Gordon in 2018, Kendrys Morales in ’13 and Ichiro Suzuki in ’06 and twice in ’04. Rodríguez’s Thursday efficiency included 5 hits and his twentieth dwelling run of the season. He joined Witt, who he confronted within the sport, as the one gamers in MLB historical past with no less than 20 dwelling runs and 20 stolen bases in every of his first two profession seasons.
And nonetheless unswept: Teams enter every sequence attempting to win the sequence, however even simply avoiding being swept is value noting. To that finish, the Orioles have now gone 78 straight sequence with out being swept, getting into the weekend. That’s the fourth-most consecutive sequence of a number of video games with out being swept, per Elias. They path solely the 1942-44 Cardinals (125), 1903-05 Giants (106) and 1922-24 Yankees (83).
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