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Yahoo
20-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Diamondbacks' Corbin Carroll is 1st player in MLB history with crazy career record, and he did it in one season by July
Nobody has ever done this in an entire MLB career. Arizona Diamondbacks superstar Corbin Carroll just did it in one season by the end of July. The accomplishment box was checked off when Carroll hit two triples on Saturday night. It set up this record, shared by OptaStats: MORE: It's impossible to stop watching Ronald Acuna Jr.'s throw Carroll has even missed time this season with injury. It seems like it should be impossible to do what he has done. But apparently when Carroll's swing gets in a certain groove, it really gets there. Some nights, he's a home run hitter. Other nights, he's a triples hitter. And on all those nights, it turns out, Carroll was making history. MORE MLB NEWS: Trevor Bauer has the worst ERA in Japan's NPB Eugenio Suarez breaks silence on Yankees trade rumors Deion Sanders, Bo Jackson once had the most legendary clash at Yankee Stadium Cal Raleigh, aka Big Dumper, signs the perfect endorsement deal Aaron Judge reveals how long he plans to play in MLB Quinn Priester did the unthinkable against the Dodgers
Yahoo
09-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Pirates break MLB record previously held by 1884 Cincinnati Outlaw Reds
The Pittsburgh Pirates are on one of the most improbable hot streaks in baseball history. It continued Wednesday afternoon with a 5-0 shutout of the St. Louis Cardinals. The Pirates' last six games have been as follows: Advertisement Pirates 9, Mets 1 Pirates 9, Mets 2 Pirates 12, Mets 1 Pirates 7, Cardinals 0 Pirates 1, Cardinals 0 Pirates 5, Cardinals 0 They set a new MLB record in the process. No team has ever scored more runs over a six-game span while allowing fewer than five runs in the history of Major League Baseball. It's a 43-4 stretch for Pittsburgh. The previous mark was 42 runs in such a dominant six-game streak, which was done in 1884 by the Cincinnati Outlaw Reds, with the stat via OptaStats. MORE: Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani, Cal Raleigh combine to make MLB history The Outlaw Reds lasted just a single season. They were also known as the Cincinnati Unions, and they played in the Union Association, which didn't last long. The high point of their season was a no-hitter thrown by outfielder/pitcher Dick Burns, which was the first-ever no-no tossed by a major league player for a Cincinnati team. Advertisement The most amazing part of this Pirates stretch, besides that, is that they're still 38-50 on the season and well in the basement of the NL Central. But if they keep scoring all the runs and giving up very few, maybe they can stage a gigantic turnaround. MORE MLB NEWS:
Fox Sports
16-05-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
Last Night in Baseball: Shohei Ohtani has another wild bobblehead night
There is always baseball happening — almost too much baseball for one person to handle themselves. That's why we're here to help, though, by sifting through the previous days' games, and figuring out what you missed, but shouldn't have. Here are all the best moments from last night in Major League Baseball: No one does it like Ohtani The last two seasons have done a lot to prove that Shohei Ohtani isn't special just because he can both pitch and hit. He hasn't pitched since 2023, thanks to the need for a second Tommy John surgery, but the bat? The bat has never been more elite. In 2024, he juuuuust missed a real rarity of a round-number season by finishing with 99 extra-base hits instead of 100, leaving him one extra-base knock away from a season that has occurred just 15 times in MLB history. Instead, Ohtani had to settle for "only" managing to become the first-ever 50 home run, 50 steals player in history, while still managing to rack up an MLB-leading 411 total bases on the year despite hitting enough singles to swipe 50 bags in the first place. Ohtani had his second bobblehead night of the season — meant to honor that very 50/50 accomplishment — and, like with the first one of the year where he hit a dramatic walk-off shot , this was one to remember. Ohtani went deep twice, joining Aaron Judge and Kyle Schwarber atop the 2025 leaderboard in the process, and the full tally of what he's accomplished to this point in the season has literally never happened before. As OptaStats notes , it's not just that this is Ohtani's first 42 games besting the first 42 games of everyone else in terms of homers, runs, steals, and walks. It's any 42-game stretch, from anyone. The fact that baseball is as old of a sport as it is, with MLB itself nearly as old, and that there are somehow still brand new occurrences happening statistically, is wild. That's Ohtani, though. A player capable of so many seemingly unthinkable feats that society had to invent the idea of Tungsten Arm O'Doyle to better understand just how special he was. Despite how it might feel, though, it's not actually impossible to get Ohtani out. Not even on his bobblehead night. Just ask… wait, what? The catcher struck him out? The backup catcher? Backup catcher Jhonny Pereda struck out Shohei Well how about that. Subheadings don't lie. On a night as big as the one Ohtani had, he somehow was taken down a peg by a position player on the mound. Baseball! Pereda, per , wanted to face Ohtani on a night when an Athletics player could request that kind of thing, given they ended up losing 19-2 to the Dodgers. The A's backup backstop threw four pitches, none of them faster than 70 mph, and then cranked it all the way to a devastating 89 mph to try to catch one of MLB's preeminent sluggers off-balance. Ohtani fouled the pitch off right into the catcher's mitt, and that was that. You'd keep the ball that struck Ohtani out, too, even if your team lost by a couple of touchdowns and a field goal in the process. Vintage deGrom Gather round, children, your elders have a story to tell you about baseball back in their day. Of pitchers who pitched deep into games, of duels that didn't involve the bullpen until it was time to close things out, if even then. This isn't a debate about what's better or what's worse, but on Thursday night, we were given a glimpse of what things used to be like. For MLB as a whole, and for one pitcher specifically: Rangers' hurler Jacob deGrom. deGrom threw eight innings on just 96 pitches for the Rangers, scattering five hits while striking out seven in what became a shutout of the Astros once Shawn Armstrong closed things out with a scoreless ninth. That's noteworthy on its own, yes, but dueling deGrom from Houston was their own ace, Hunter Brown. Brown also threw eight innings, striking out nine while allowing just four baserunners, but as he gave up a single run and deGrom did not, he took the L. As deGrom has been hurt so often in his career, and he'll be turning 37 years old in just a few days, we should take the time to appreciate when he's on the mound. There were few who could be argued to be his equal when he was in his prime, and starts like last night's effort are a reminder of why that was. Twins do their namesake proud Back-to-back jacks from the Twins? Anyone can do this, but only the Twins can do it with this level of inherent wordplay. Here's Dashawn Keirsey Jr. and Byron Buxton with the Twins' first back-to-back homers of the season: The Twins rendered the Orioles' flightless not just on Thursday, but in the four-game series as a whole. Minnesota has now won 11 in a row, the longest streak in MLB this year, which has brought their record to 24-20 and put them in possession of the third of three wild card slots. The Orioles… well, their '25 isn't going quite like that. And looks about as bad as the Twins' season did before winning 11 in a row. Don't worry, Baltimore, all you have to do is rip off nearly a dozen wins in a row and you're right back in this thing, too. He threw how hard? This isn't the majors, no, but with the way Jacob Misiorowski is pitching in Triple-A, he'll be there before long. Here's the 6-foot-7 right-hander dialing it up all the way to 103 mph for a strikeout during Thursday's MiLB action: The 2022 second-round pick is, as noted, the top pitching prospect in Milwaukee's system, and has racked up 59 strikeouts in 49.1 innings of work at Triple-A this spring. MLB ranked him as the No. 72 prospect in the minors coming into the year, so there might not be an ace-in-waiting here, but then again, he was a second-round pick who is thriving at Triple-A and made it into a top-100 list even before then. Whether he's a starter or a reliever in the long run is the question — given his length and that he pitches exclusively from the stretch, his delivery is sometimes difficult to repeat. But there's no denying that 80-grade heater. Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? 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Edmonton Journal
01-05-2025
- Sport
- Edmonton Journal
Barcelona and Inter Milan draw 3-3 in thrilling first leg of Champions League semifinal
Article content Opta Stats said it was joint-highest highest score for a draw in a Champions League semifinals since Bayern Munich and Dynamo Kiev finished with the same score in April 1999. What was supposed to be a contrast of styles between the top-scoring Barcelona and the stingiest defense in the competition turned into a shootout. 'We saw a fantastic match and we knew that semifinals are difficult. We could even have won,' Inter coach Simone Inzaghi said. 'Our fans know that we've been giving our utmost in difficult times and we know that Tuesday will be a 'final.'' Thuram flicks Inter ahead Inter matched Barcelona's firepower with two goals from corner kicks, and the hosts needed another stellar performance from 17-year-old Yamal in his 100th appearance for his club. Except for Inter's start and strength in set pieces, Barcelona imposed its game and had 66% possession and created 10 shots on goal to Inter's three, according to UEFA's stats — but had to settle for a draw.
