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Manny Sarmiento pitched in 228 major league games for the Cincinnati Reds, Seattle Mariners, and Pittsburgh Pirates between 1976 and 1983. Rich Gedman caught for the Red Sox for most of his 13-year major league career (1980–1992). Luis Aponte made 110 pitching appearances as a reliever with the Red Sox and Indians from 1980 to 1984.
The longest winning streak consisting only of playoff games stands at 12 consecutive wins, by the 1927, 1928 and 1932 New York Yankees (who swept the World Series all three seasons) and tied by the 1998–99 Yankees. According to Major League Baseball's policy on winning streaks, tie games do not end a team's winning streak. [1]
Depiction of the game from The Boston Globe. On Saturday, May 1, 1920, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Braves played to a 1–1 tie in 26 innings, the most innings ever played in a single game in the history of Major League Baseball (MLB). The game was played at Braves Field in Boston before a crowd estimated at 4,000.
Saturday, May 1, 1920 began like any other day in baseball in its era, with a modest crowd of 4,500 people gathered at Braves Field in Boston to watch the hometown Braves face off against the ...
This was the second time in Major League history that two games of 18 innings or more were played on same day; [19] the first was August 15, 2006. [20] In the 2013 season, the Arizona Diamondbacks set a major league record by playing 78 extra innings. [21] [22] This broke the season record of 76 extra innings played by the Minnesota Twins in 1969.
In the modern two-league era, the longest losing streak belongs to the 1961 Philadelphia Phillies at 23 games. In the American League, the 1988 Baltimore Orioles and 2024 Chicago White Sox hold the record at 21 games. The longest losing streak consisting entirely of postseason games is 18, belonging to the Minnesota Twins (2004–2023).
Ted Barrett felt it in his feet. In his legs. In his appetite. And in the ease in which he fell asleep after the game. Over those nearly 7 ½ hours, he’d not sat down. He’d taken one bathroom ...
If games in Japan were counted, this would place Matsui behind only Ripken and Gehrig for streaks in Major League Baseball, although other streaks that took place solely in Japan have been longer (Sachio Kinugasa's streak of 2,215 games, which was a world record until broken by Ripken, as well as Takashi Toritani's streak of 1,939 games.) The ...