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In an extra-inning game, Dalkowski recorded 27 strikeouts (while walking 16 and throwing 283 pitches). Dalkowski was invited to major league spring training in 1963, and the Orioles expected to call him up to the majors. On March 23, Dalkowski was used as a relief pitcher during a game against the New York Yankees.
The most complete games recorded in a live-ball season is 33, achieved three times in all—twice at the dawn of that era by Grover Cleveland Alexander in 1920 and Burleigh Grimes in 1923, and also by Dizzy Trout in 1944, a season in which the player pool was severely depleted by military call-ups during World War II.
Josh Gibson, who played 510 games in the Negro League, holds the record for highest batting average, slugging percentage, and on-base plus slugging in a career. Barry Bonds holds the career home run and single-season home run records.
“Certainly not the hardest ball Joe ever hit, but a little blooper into center wins the World Series,” said former longtime NBC Sports broadcaster Bob Costas. 6 Hall of Famers lost in 2020 ...
Berkshire set a world record with a ball speed of 241.6 mph. When asked what means more to him, the world record or the championship belts he received for the three world titles, his answer was ...
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The unassisted triple play, the perfect game, hitting four home runs in one game and five extra-base hits in a game are thus comparable in terms of rarity, but the perfect game and the home run and extra-base hit records require an extraordinary effort along with a fair amount of luck. By contrast, the unassisted triple play is essentially ...
It also continued De La Cruz's early assault on the Reds record book. Per Statcast, the 458-foot home run left his bat traveling 114.8 mph. ... His hardest hit ball in that May 9 game traveled 118 ...