MLB Fun Facts Thread

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#51
Jose Abreu of the White Sox became the second player since 1900 to hit at least 17 home runs in his first 46 career games (Wally Berger, 1930).
 
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#52
Lonnie Chisenhall became the first player since 1920, when the majors started compiling RBIs, to bat 1.000 in a game with as many as three homers and nine RBIs.
 
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#53
Lonnie Chisenhall became the fourth-youngest player in MLB history with three home runs, five hits and 15 total bases in a game.
 
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#54
The Padres became the first team in the modern era to strike out at least 50 times and record 15 or fewer hits in a five-game span.
 
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#57
Derek Jeter joined Craig Biggio and Rickey Henderson as the only players in MLB history with at least 3,000 hits, 250 home runs and 350 steals.
 
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#58
Max Scherzer broke the streak of most career starts in modern MLB history (178) without a complete game as he earned his first in his 179th start.
 
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#59
If he completes his no hitter (he has one going right now), hiroki kuroda will be the first pitcher named hiroki kuroda to throw a no hitter in the american league
 
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#61
The Giants are the first team to throw a no-hitter in three straight seasons since the Angels did so from 1973 to 1975.
 
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#62
Devin Mesoraco became the first player since Del Rice in 1953 to hit a grand slam and be hit by two pitches in the same game.
 
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#63
Carlos Beltran joined Darryl Strawberry as the only players in baseball history to hit walk-off home runs for both the Mets and Yankees.
 
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#65
But he's been a league-average hitter and good defensively. Which are nice surprises.
 
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#66
@AceballStats: During the first half of the season, Dellin Betances had a nine-game streak of multiple-strikeout outings. That equaled the longest of Mariano Rivera's career. Not bad.
 
#67
#67
Jose Abreu became the first rookie since Ted Williams in 1939 to record his 50th extra-base hit in 81 games or fewer.
 
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#68
Corey Kluber is the only pitcher in the past 100 seasons with consecutive starts of nine innings pitched and 28 batters faced.
 
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#69
J.P. Arencibia is the seventh player in MLB history with four hits, two homers and seven RBIs in a loss.
 
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#70
Dennis Martinez and Mike Morgan are the only two pitchers to allow a hit to both Derek Jeter and Carl Yastrzemski in their careers.
 
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#72
If Kershaw goes six innings and gives up no more than four earned runs in his next trip to the mound, it means his ERA will be under 2.00 over his last 100 starts (dating all the way back to July 7, 2011). Yes, I said 100 starts. (He's at 1.96 over his last 99 at the moment.)

So who's the last pitcher to have a 100-start stretch (or longer) with an ERA tinier than 2.00? Who else? Maddux, of course. He had a 1.99 ERA over an incredible 132 starts, spanning the final month of 1991 and all of the next four seasons.
 
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#73
David Price is the first pitcher in Tigers history to have a double-digit strikeout game in his team debut.
 
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#74
Anthony Ranaudo becomes the first Red Sox pitcher ever to record his first career strikeout versus Derek Jeter.
 
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#75
Javier Baez became the second player since 1900 to hit three home runs in his first three major league games, joining Joe Cunningham of the Cardinals (1954).
 
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