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In Major League Baseball (MLB), records play an integral part in evaluating a player's impact on the sport. Holding a career record almost guarantees a player eventual entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame because it represents both longevity and consistency over a long period of time. (For Japanese baseball records see Nippon Professional Baseball)
List of Major League Baseball career records; List of Major League Baseball single-season records; List of Major League Baseball single-game records; List of Major League Baseball records considered unbreakable; List of Major League Baseball record breakers by season; List of Major League Baseball individual streaks
The following is a list of records for a game, season, or career that were broken in each Major League Baseball season by players, teams, or others. This does not include dates when additional stats were recorded by the same player above one's own record set (unless broken by someone else in between) or records by a team that do not lead the majors.
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]
On average, as of the early 2020's only about three players in all of baseball appear in even 162 regular season games of any given MLB season. The other method in which a player can be credited with more than 162 games played is when games are called with the score tied after the game becomes official, i.e. after five or more innings are played.
This is a list of the longest team losing streaks in Major League Baseball history. Streaks started at the end of one season are carried over into the following season. Two lists are provided—one with streaks that consist entirely of regular-season games and one with streaks of playoff games only.
That is a 514-foot blast, certainly long enough to get him on the top-10 longest home runs of all-time list. However, since this didn't happen in the Majors, it doesn't count.
The Toronto Blue Jays' affiliate in the rookie-level Dominican Summer League, the DSL Blue Jays, claim a 37-game winning streak to begin the 1992 season. [3] The team went on to compile a regular season record of 68–2, then were eliminated in the first round of the postseason.