Showing posts with label records. Show all posts
Showing posts with label records. Show all posts
Sunday, October 20, 2024

The Dodgers are Going to the World Series!!!

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The Dodgers beat the Mets in the 6th game of the National League Championship Series (NLCS), and we're now off to the World Series to f...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Yadier Molina and Adam Wainwright Make their Record 325th Start as Battery-Mates

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Yadier Molina and Adam Wainwright of the St. Louis Cardinals started their record 325th game as battery-mates . They tied the old record las...
Wednesday, November 01, 2017

Houston Astros Win 2017 World Series

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Congratulations to the Houston Astros, an excellent team, a worthy opponent, and World Series champions for the first time in their 56-year...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

New Technology: Playable Records Made from Oreo Cookies

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I know this sounds nuts, but I'm serious ! And I from a physics perspective, this seems eminently doable. I know of a great song that...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

New Minor League Baseball Stolen Base Record

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Billy Hamilton has set a new professional baseball record for most stolen bases in a season . He now has 147 steals this year. The old rec...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Mariano Rivera Sets Saves Record: Arrrrrrrr!

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Ahoy, Mateys! Yankee relief pitcher Mariano Rivera , t' best Major League reliever ever, recorded career save number 602 , which puts ...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Pitching is for the Young

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This one completely snuck up on me... Anyway, as Rob Neyer reports , the Tampa Bay Rays about about to break a seriously impressive record...
Saturday, July 09, 2011

Records

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There's a store near where I live that is either new or that I just noticed that sells a bunch of used stuff. Most intriguingly, this i...
Monday, June 13, 2011

VINYL Recommendation

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OK, now that is seriously awesome. I got an item-recommendation e-mail from Amazon recommending that I buy a VINYL version of Depeche Mod...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

New High Score!

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Some demotivational posters really make me laugh . I approve!
Thursday, September 23, 2010

Ichiro gets 10th Straight 200-Hit Season

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Let me follow up Zifnab's lead by following up a negative post with a positive one (at least if you care about baseball). Ichiro Suzuk...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

Ivan Rodriguez becomes all-time leader in games caught

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The title of this entry basically says it all: Last night, Ivan Rodriguez became the all-time Major League leader in games caught .
Sunday, September 28, 2008

Greg Maddux passes Roger Clemens in wins!

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In yesterday's Dodger game, Greg Maddux got his 355th career win, to move him past Roger Clemens on the all-time win list. I don't...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

200 strikeouts in a season!

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Yesterday, the Diamondbacks' Mark Reynolds struck out for the 200th time this season, becoming the first Major Leaguer to accomplish thi...
Sunday, September 14, 2008

K-Rod breaks Bobby Thigpen's single-season save record

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Yesterday, the Angels' Francisco Rodriguez ("K-Rod") recorded his 58th save of 2008, breaking Bobby Thigpen's single-seaso...
Friday, August 08, 2008

The Amazing Brad Ziegler

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I meant to blog about this a while ago, but I have a few minutes now, so let me belated mention the amazing rookie season of Oakland relieve...
Sunday, May 25, 2008

Omar Vizquel sets record for most Major League games at shortstop

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Omar Vizquel passed Luis Aparicio today to set the Major League record for most games at shortstop . You can see Vizquel's career stati...
Thursday, April 17, 2008

Caltech pitcher sets hitting record

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As described in The California Tech , a Caltech pitcher recently set an NCAA hitting record . How did he do this? Simple... he hit 13 batte...
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Friday, October 05, 2007

A baseball record that went under the radar

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I've started to look more carefully at the final-season baseball stats to try to figure out who I think should win the various awards an...
Saturday, September 08, 2007

Baseball box score of the day

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Only in September do we see baseball box scores like this one , in which the Rockies set a National League record and tied a Major League re...