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Baseball Almanac. Baseball Almanac is an interactive baseball encyclopedia with over 500,000 pages of baseball facts, research, awards, records, feats, lists, notable quotations, baseball movie ratings, and statistics. [2][3][4][5][6] Its goal is to preserve the history of baseball. [2]
Atlanta Braves (4–2) 2022. Philadelphia Phillies. Houston Astros (4–2) 2023. Texas Rangers. Arizona Diamondbacks. Texas Rangers (4–1) 2024.
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
2001. October 4: Most career runs – 2,246 by Rickey Henderson; ended his career in 2003 with 2,295. October 5: Most home runs, season – 71 by Barry Bonds (hit #72 in same game; finished season with 73) Highest slugging percentage, season – .863 by Bonds.
Josh Gibson 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. Ichiro Suzuki collected 262 hits in 2004, breaking George Sisler 's 84-year-old record for most hits in a season. Record.
Pedro Martínez won five ERA titles across both leagues; his 2000 margin of victory over Clemens for the ERA title is the largest in Major League Baseball history. John Lackey 's 3.01 ERA in 2007 led the American League. Cliff Lee won the Cy Young Award in 2008 [177] in addition to the ERA title.
The record was previously held by Cobb until the integration of Negro league statistics into Major League Baseball's record books on May 28, 2024. Since then, Gibson not only holds the new record for career batting average, but also the records for career OPS with 1.177 and slugging percentage with .718, as well as the single-season records in ...
Major League Baseball recognizes runs scored leaders in the American League and National League each season. In baseball, a run is scored when a player advances safely around first, second and third base and returns safely to home plate , touching the bases in that order, before three outs are recorded.