Sentences with phrase «in baseball history»

That's a pitcher hitting a baseball, which shouldn't have anything to do with the best Opening Day starts in baseball history.

After all, they got the biggest raises in baseball history.

And, just for good measure, Anthony Rendon hit a home run later in the inning, which means that Blazek is the first pitcher in baseball history to allow five home runs in an inning.

Could the Cubs be the best team in baseball history?

The A's say this is most likely one of the first completely free games in baseball history.

He took over a Tigers team that would have one of the worst seasons in baseball history, and his job was to rebuild.

The Dodgers were reportedly mulling a Matt Kemp / Clayton Kershaw package, which would have been something like a worst - case scenario... except they would have had one of the best hitters in baseball history to help soften the blow.

Damon turned out to be a critical cog in the Red Sox offense for the remainder of the series, pushing the team to one of the greatest comebacks in baseball history.

And because of teams leaving Canseco and Sierra alone, it led to one of the most compelling trades in baseball history, even if it flopped for both sides.

For the first time in baseball history, Brewers fans are concerned with the Rockies, and vice versa, and that makes it feel just a touch artificial.

«But the Yankees are the greatest franchise in baseball history, and I'm sure their decades of dominance will continue through this week.»

He's been suspended a full season for performance - enhancing drugs, maligned in the media ever since he first signed the richest contract in baseball history in 2000 and has somehow been even more under the microscope since joining the New York Yankees before the 2004 season.

Raines stole 808 bases, fifth all - time, at a remarkable 84.7 % clip, the highest success rate for anyone in baseball history with at least 400 steal attempts.

The lowest ERA in baseball history that isn't a flat 0.00?

In the American League the Yankees, dead six weeks earlier, effortlessly contained closing rallies by the White Sox and Orioles to win by the biggest one - game margin in baseball history.

Let's quickly recap all of the reasons Harper will be the most expensive free agent in baseball history:

We're in the middle of one of the greatest stretches of individual pitching in baseball history, and it shouldn't keep getting better, but it does.

Griffin gave up 28 homers in 119 innings, which is one of the highest rates in baseball history for any pitcher over 100 innings.

It wound up being a momentous day not just in baseball history, but in the history of a country that has plenty of issues with equal treatment in the workplace.

It is a moment etched in baseball history.

Kershaw is roughly the equivalent of one of the greatest closers in baseball history, stretched out for seven or eight innings at a time, unless you get him for the full nine innings.

That didn't just add to his mystique — it made him a fascinating, rare specimen in baseball history that we got to study.

If they let Harper leave via free agency, do the Nationals slot Victor Robles in for Harper in right, wait for Juan Soto to develop, and then spend the money coming off the books and what they would have committed to Harper in what's thought of as one of the best free agent classes in baseball history next winter?»

For the extreme example, check out the Astros, a team that had one of the worst stretches in baseball history.

Even Mike Trout, owner of one of the most ridiculous starts to a career in baseball history, had just a 47 percent chance at 500 homers before this season.

There's been a fixed World Series, one that ended with Babe Ruth getting caught stealing, Willie Mays making a catch that's still burned in our brains, Enos Slaughter's mad dash, and a walk - off home run to win the whole thing for one of the greatest underdogs in baseball history.

This is the first period in baseball history where stimulants and PEDs are heavily regulated.

In the AL, Mike Trout is a finalist yet again, finishing in the top three for the fifth consecutive year, just the third time that's happened in baseball history (Barry Bonds and Albert Pujols were the last two).

There are 174 players in baseball history who had six or more seasons with an above - average adjusted OPS before turning 28.

If you're looking for a larger trend, here are the top three seasons in baseball history when it comes to rookies with 10 home runs or more: 2015, 2016, 2017.

The 2012 Cincinnati Reds had one of the best pitching staffs in baseball history.

It's the highest ERA from any pitcher with more than 50 innings in baseball history.

It was a fast, subtle knuckleball that was without a lot of peers in baseball history.

The ball was worth $ 5,000 to him — a pleasant windfall for Durante (who was going to present the ball to Maris anyway)-- and made his stadium seat, according to The New York Times the next day, the most «profitable in baseball history.»

If you want the best argument for Tal's Hill, here it is, from 15 years ago, featuring one of the very best outfielders in baseball history.

Because no one remembers anything on the Internet from before last year, and because I ran out of ideas somewhere in 2013, allow me to remind you of one of the funniest stadium giveaways in baseball history.

He was Lincecum - sized, but he threw hard and had one of the better curveballs in baseball history.

Sanchez has had issues throwing strikes and missing bats for most of his professional career, and Hutchison had some of the freakiest home / road splits in baseball history.

Thanks to Kostya Kennedy for writing the truth about Bill Buckner, the most unjustly accused man in baseball history.

Seven - time MVP Barry Bonds and seven - time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens, both considered among the very best at their positions in baseball history but both tainted by the swath of performance enhancing drugs, also made huge strides this year.

For a position that's been so understaffed / undervalued / unappreciated in baseball history — 11 Hall of Fame third baseman, remember — it's amazing that more than half of the teams aren't just OK with their third baseman, but absolutely thrilled.

But he actually is 11th on the All - time list of most walks in baseball history with 1614 walks compared to only 920 KO's.

Every 12.4 swings Bonds took an eraser to the records of some of the greatest names in baseball history — Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Rogers Hornsby, Hank Aaron, McGwire.

Previous teams with surges as spectacular as Colorado's are writ large in baseball history — the Miracle Boston Braves of 1914 (who finished 10 1/2 games in front despite being 11 1/2 behind as late as July 15) and the 1951 New York Giants of Coogan's Bluff fame (who trailed the Brooklyn Dodgers by 13 1/2 games on Aug. 11 but won the pennant on Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard «Round the World).

Maddon, the owner of two World Series rings and the claim as one of the highest - paid managers in baseball history, is a proud member of the Stage 5 club in coaching.

Larkin was the fourth - overall pick in 1985, which is widely considered the greatest amateur draft in baseball history.

Of course, this is the most watchable pitcher in baseball — one of the greatest pure talents in baseball history — so it's hard to rank him anywhere near the bottom.

The Marlins gave their fans an 11 - day honeymoon period before starting one of the most memorable fire sales in baseball history, a crushingly quick demolition project that abused fans and blamed them at the same time.