Here’s our weekly have a look at 10 mind-blowing notes from the final week in baseball (Aug. 18-24).
Leadoff energy: Mookie Betts’ eleventh leadoff homer this season on Aug. 18 prolonged his file for essentially the most in a season in Dodgers franchise historical past. It’s additionally essentially the most leadoff homers earlier than September in a single season. Betts is simply two leadoff residence runs shy of tying 2003 Alfonso Soriano’s all-time single season file of 13.
Trea bien: In 18 video games since he first received a standing ovation from Phillies followers, Trea Turner is hitting .343 and slugging .630. He’s hit 5 residence runs in that span. Two of these got here within the eighth inning on Saturday. Turner grew to become simply the third Phillies participant with two homers in an inning, becoming a member of Von Hayes on June 11, 1985 within the first and Andy Seminick on June 2, 1949 within the eighth.
The quickest man: On Saturday, the speedy Elly De La Cruz hit a triple and scored on the identical play on a throwing error. His home-to-home time was 15.3 seconds, the Reds’ quickest home-to-home time tracked by Statcast (since 2015), surpassing a 15.6 sec by Billy Hamilton on May 19, 2017. Then on Monday, he stole his twentieth base in simply 64 profession video games, marking the fewest profession video games to a minimum of 10 homers and 20 stolen bases since 1900. He handed Barry Bonds, who reached the marks in 65 profession video games.
JULIOOO: Julio Rodríguez tallied 4 straight video games with a minimum of 4 hits on Wednesday by means of Saturday, tying 1925 Milt Stock for essentially the most consecutive four-hit video games since a minimum of 1901. He had 17 hits within the 4 video games, essentially the most in a four-game span since a minimum of 1901, in addition to 5 stolen bases. Prior to Rodríguez’s streak, essentially the most hits in a four-game span with a minimum of 5 stolen bases (since a minimum of 1901) was 13, by Bake McBride (1974), Ty Cobb (1927) and Cobb (1907). He surpassed that, after which some.
Fourth hit’s the appeal: It wasn’t simply Rodríguez. From Tuesday by means of Sunday, the Mariners had a minimum of one hitter with a four-hit sport in six consecutive crew video games. That tied the longest such streak since 1900, with the 1929 Giants and 1923 Dodgers, in keeping with the Elias Sports Bureau. For the Mariners, it was Dominic Canzone, Ty France, Teoscar Hernández, Dylan Moore and Rodríguez (4). For the 1929 Giants: Travis Jackson, Freddie Lindstrom (two), Edd Roush (two), Bill Terry (three) and Mel Ott. And for the 1923 Dodgers: Jimmy Johnston (4), Bernie Neis and Jack Fournier.
Extra-base hits abound: At 22 years and 52 days previous on Sunday, Gunnar Henderson grew to become the youngest participant in Orioles/Browns historical past with 4 extra-base hits in a sport. Henderson was the Twelfth-youngest participant since 1901 with 4 extra-base hits in a sport and youngest since Miguel Cabrera in 2005. It was the forty fourth particular person sport since 1901 with a number of doubles, a triple and a house run. The final participant to do it earlier than Henderson was David Wright on June 23, 2013.
20 homers for all: Eddie Rosario hit his twentieth residence run of the season on Tuesday. He grew to become the Braves’ seventh participant with a minimum of 20 homers this season. Tuesday was sport 125 for Atlanta. That’s the fewest crew video games for any crew to succeed in seven 20-homer gamers in a season. The file for a season is eight such gamers, by the 2019 Twins, who set the single-season residence run file with 307. The Braves are at the moment on tempo for 308 residence runs.
Brotherly love: Joshua and Richie Palacios confronted off in MLB video games for the primary time this week. Joshua homered on Monday after which on Tuesday, Richie hit his first profession residence run. He grew to become the fifth participant within the divisional period (since 1969) to hit his first profession homer in a sport the place he performed vs. his brother, per Elias. He joined Cesar Crespo vs. Felipe (6/7/01), Chris Gwynn vs. Tony (6/8/90), Joe Niekro off of Phil (5/29/76) and Oscar Brown vs. Ollie (9/10/70).
Shotime: Shohei Ohtani completed his 2023 pitching season with a .372 batting common in video games he pitched this 12 months. He additionally had a 1.220 OPS in these video games. That is the best OPS by a participant in video games he pitched since a minimum of 1901, with a minimal of 60 such plate appearances.
And nonetheless unswept: Teams enter every sequence making an attempt to win the sequence, however even simply avoiding being swept is value noting. To that finish, the Orioles have now gone 80 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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