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Both Leon Cadore of Brooklyn and Joe Oeschger of Boston pitched complete games, and with 26 innings pitched, jointly hold the record for the longest pitching appearance in MLB history. Their record is considered unbreakable, as modern pitchers rarely pitch even nine innings, and newer baseball rules have made long extra-innings games a rarity.
Career pitching records Statistic Player Record Dodgers career Ref Wins: Don Sutton: 233 1966–1980 1988 [9] Losses: Don Sutton: 181 1966–1980 1988 [9] Win–loss percentage: Zack Greinke.773 2013–2015 [10] ERA: Zack Greinke: 2.30 2013–2015 [10] Saves: Kenley Jansen: 350 2010–2021 [11] Strikeouts: Clayton Kershaw: 2,968 2008–present ...
The record pitching from the distance used since 1893 (60 feet 6 inches) is 482 innings that first year by Amos Rusie, which had been exceeded 85 times by pitchers working from 45 or (starting in 1881) 50 feet, including by Rusie himself the three previous consecutive seasons, but has never been approached since (Ed Walsh in 1908 was the last ...
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 ...
On May 1, the Braves and the Brooklyn Robins (later the Brooklyn Dodgers and now the Los Angeles Dodgers) played what remains the longest major league baseball game, tied 1 to 1 at the end of nine innings and then going scoreless for 17 more until the 26-inning game was called because of darkness [1]
A 2007 HBO film, Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush, is a documentary covering the Dodgers history from early days to the beginning of the Los Angeles era. In the film, the story is related that O'Malley was so hated by Brooklyn Dodger fans after the move to California, that it was said: "If you asked a Brooklyn Dodger fan, if you had a ...
The 26 starters have a combined Opening Day record of 29 wins, 27 losses and 10 no decisions. [3] [4] The Dodgers started playing in Los Angeles in 1958, after moving from Brooklyn. [5] The first Opening Day game for the Dodgers in Los Angeles was played in San Francisco against the San Francisco Giants on April 15, 1958. [3]
The 2024 NLCS had an average margin of victory of 6.7, the highest in MLB postseason history. The Dodgers scored 46 runs in the series, which set an LCS record, two more than the Atlanta Braves in the 1996 NLCS, and was the second-most runs scored by a team in any postseason series, behind only the New York Yankees in the 1960 World Series, who ...