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Team: The player's team at the time of the game Lge. The league the player's team is a member of NL: National League: AL: American League: AA: American Association: PL: Players' League: Opposing team: The team against whom the player had six hits AB: Number of times at bat the player was credited with Hits: Number of hits the player was ...
The following is a list of single-game baseball records and unusual events. The following criteria are used for inclusion: The following criteria are used for inclusion: Only events occurring within a single plate appearance , inning , or game are included; cumulative or aggregate records achieved over more than one game are not listed.
Five of these players have played for only one major league team. Six pitchers— Steve Carlton, Roger Clemens, Randy Johnson, Nolan Ryan, Tom Seaver, and Max Scherzer —are also members of the 3,000 strikeout club. Sweeney has the fewest career strikeouts in the group with 505, while Nolan Ryan, with 5,714, struck out more batters than any ...
Shawn Green hit a double and a single along with his four home runs for 19 total bases, an MLB record. It surpassed Joe Adcock 's mark of 18, which also came from a four-homer game. [11] [12] Carlos Delgado is the only player to make four plate appearances in a game and hit a home run each time. [13] Warren Spahn pitched the ball which Gil ...
Andrew Stefan McCutchen (born October 10, 1986) [1] is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, and Milwaukee Brewers . The Pirates selected McCutchen in the first round (11th pick ...
Though one account credits San Diego Padres player Carmelo Martínez with inventing the term in the 1980s, [2] "sombrero" was already in use to describe a four-strikeout game as early as 1977, [3] and "golden sombrero" appeared in print in a 1979 article about slang used by the minor league Jackson Mets. [4]
Thirteen players have hit two grand slams in a single Major League Baseball (MLB) game to date, the most recent being Josh Willingham of the Washington Nationals on July 27, 2009. [2] No player has accomplished the feat more than once in his career and no player has ever hit more than two in a game. Tony Lazzeri was the first player to hit two ...
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on the batting team, called the batter, tries to hit with a bat.