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At the time, home runs were rare in baseball, and Ruth's majestic shot awed the crowd. The winning pitcher, Warhop, would in August 1915 conclude a major league career of eight seasons, undistinguished but for being the first major league pitcher to give up a home run to Babe Ruth. [46] Ruth during batting practice with the Boston Red Sox in ...
He holds the all-time MLB record with 110 career shutouts. During his early pitching days, Babe Ruth, who is most known for his hitting prowess, led the American League with nine shutouts for the Boston Red Sox in 1916. Jim Palmer was the last American League pitcher to record 10 shutouts in one season when he did so for the Baltimore Orioles ...
Achieved by several other pairs of teammates since. Ruth and Gehrig were the first, and the only to achieve it three times. Clubs with three consecutive home runs in inning: Twice. 4th inning, at Philadelphia Athletics, first game, September 10, 1925 (Bob Meusel, Ruth, Gehrig) 7th inning, at Chicago White Sox, May 4, 1929 (Ruth, Gehrig, Meusel)
On August 11, 1929 -- 85 years ago today -- George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. became the first baseball player to hit 500 career home runs when he hit the first ball pitched by Willis Hudlin that ...
The winning pitcher of Game 1 was Babe Ruth, who pitched a shutout. Although the Red Sox had just won their record-setting fifth World Series title, the 1918 championship would be the last Red Sox win until 2004. The drought of 86 years was often attributed to the Curse of the Bambino.
Ruth’s team beat the Erie Moose Club, 15-1, and Ruth went 3-for-5 himself, including a long home run to right field. Roosevelt School is shown beyond Ainsworth Field's right-field fence in 2017.
A shutout is defined by Major League Baseball rule 10.18: . A shutout is a statistic credited to a pitcher who allows no runs in a game. No pitcher shall be credited with pitching a shutout unless he pitches the complete game, or unless he enters the game with none out before the opposing team has scored in the first inning, puts out the side without a run scoring and pitches the rest of the ...
Shohei Ohtani surpassed Babe Ruth in career pitching strikeouts but suffered his first loss this season as the Angels fell 3-1 to the Houston Astros.