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Widely regarded as one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history, Maddux is the only pitcher in MLB history to win at least 15 games for 17 straight seasons. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He also holds the record for most Gold Gloves by any player with 18, and most putouts by a pitcher with 546, including a tied live-ball-era record of 39 putouts in a season ...
Only 14 of his 714 career home runs were hit as a pitcher, however. [20] The first pitcher to officially hit a home run was Jack Manning, who accomplished the feat on August 3, 1876. [21] The most home runs by a pitcher in a single game is three, achieved by Jim Tobin on May 13, 1942. [22]
This is a list of the Major League Baseball (MLB) players who have hit a home run in their final major league at bat. The feat was first accomplished in 1890 by Buck West, and most recently by Stephen Vogt in 2022. Paul Gillespie and John Miller are the only players in MLB history to hit home runs in their first and last major-league at bats.
Pierce ended the season with the league lead in ERA (although his record was just 15–10), with his mark of 1.97 being the lowest by a major league pitcher between Hal Newhouser in 1946 (1.94) and Sandy Koufax in 1963 (1.88); he led the major leagues by nearly two thirds of a run, with Ford having the next best mark at 2.63. Total Baseball has ...
Angels relief pitcher Ben Joyce throws a 105.5-mph pitch as he strikes out the Dodgers' Tommy Edman to end the ninth inning on Tuesday in Anaheim. It was the third-fastest pitch recorded. (Mark J ...
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Other pitchers with more than thirty career home runs include Bob Lemon, who hit 35 HR as a pitcher and two more as a pinch hitter during his 18-year career, all spent with the Indians; Warren Spahn, who hit 35 while playing for the Braves and is the all-time National League leader; Red Ruffing, who had 34 home runs as a pitcher and two more as ...
This is a list of Major League Baseball (MLB) pitchers with 200 or more career wins. In the sport of baseball, a win is a statistic credited to the pitcher for the winning team who was in the game when his team last took the lead. A starting pitcher must complete five innings to earn a win; if this does not happen, the official scorer awards ...