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Bobby Lowe was the first MLB player to hit four home runs in a single game, doing so in 1894. In baseball, a home run occurs when the ball is hit in such a way that the batter is able to circle the bases and reach home safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team in the process. In modern baseball, the feat is ...
Twenty different pitchers have struck out at least 18 batters in a single nine-inning Major League Baseball (MLB) game, [a] the most recent being Max Scherzer of the Washington Nationals on May 11, 2016. [4] Four players have accomplished the feat more than once in their career; no player has ever struck out more than 20 batters in a nine ...
Of the 75 players eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame who have recorded six hits in a nine-inning game, eighteen have been elected, three on the first ballot. [20] Players are eligible for the Hall of Fame if they have played in at least 10 MLB seasons, and have either been retired for five seasons or deceased for at least six months. [ 21 ]
Three of the four teams − the Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Royals and San Diego Padres − all advanced to the divisional round. The Milwaukee Brewers forced a Game 3 against the New York Mets .
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.It comprises 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada.
Joel Embiid scored 70 in Philadelphia. Karl-Anthony Towns had 62 in Minnesota. On the 18th anniversary of Kobe Bryant's 81-point game for the Los Angeles Lakers — the second-best scoring game in ...
Tony Lazzeri (left), Rudy York (center) and Nomar Garciaparra (right) are the only players to amass 10 runs batted in and hit two grand slams in the same game. In baseball, a run batted in (RBI) is awarded to a batter for each runner who scores as a result of the batter's action, including a hit, fielder's choice, sacrifice fly, sacrifice bunt, catcher's interference, or a walk or hit by pitch ...
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