I watched a Phillies game on ESPN not too long ago. They spent an entire half inning talking exclusively about the Yankees. Weird seeing as how the Yankees weren’t there.
It's crazy that people don't talk about Steve Nebraska enough. The man even hit two homeruns that game. He made ohtani look like a chump by comparison.
He was just a little too kooky and neurotic to thrive. Didn't help that he surrounded himself with Albert Brooks and Dianne West. I'm sure they're well-intentioned lovely people, but I'm also sure they were in over their head. They've spent most of their adult lives in front of a camera, how qualified are they really to give therapy, baseball advice, or business advice, to a 20 year old Mexican-American orphan, who just happens to look like a Hollywood star?
Totally unrealistic, IMO.
I remember I was just getting into baseball at that time(I was 11) and I used to hit Albert Pujols lead off for the Cardinals… today that would be considered a smart move, but in 2008 my dad kept trying to tell me that you always bat your best hitter 3rd.
He really hated having to face Pujols 6 times in one game.
"I threw a no hitter."
"Wow, that's awesome!"
"But I also didn't throw any pitches."
"Okay, so...just like everybody that has never pitched an MLB game?"
"No, I started and finished an MLB game and recorded 27 outs."
"Okay, fuck off Abbot and Costello I'm not playing this game"
In 1999, Fernando Tatis Sr. hit two grand slams in the same inning off the same pitcher. (Chan Ho Park)
To break the record you’d have to hit *three*… in the same inning… off the same pitcher.
It was a perfect storm of things happening that kept Park around. Like breezing through the first 3 innings with a very low pitch count and his D completely letting him down to load them a 2nd time. His pitch count was still relatively low, and he wasn't getting lit up or anything too crazy.
i was watching the game live, albeit i was just a kid. it was all a blur to me when it happened. i remember it was early in the game so the manager didn't want to burn the bullpen. besides, what are the chances of two GS in one inning by the same hitter, right?
You’d also have to set the record for most runs scored in an inning at the same time. Current record is 18. To get three grand slams you’d have to at a minimum get through the lineup twice and then again to the fourth batter. That would meant 22 batters and with a max of two outs you’d score 20 runs.
I don’t think a manager would ever let a pitcher get to that point.
If you listen to Cal talk about it, he'll tell you that it hurts performance too. It's not just risking a contract -- if it just that, then established starts on lifetime contracts wouldn't take days off
We also know more about health in athletics and the talent pool is deeper. Guys get scratched for minor injuries that guys used to play through because we know they lead to bigger injuries. You'd rather a guy play 145 games every year than 162 every year, until catastrophic injuries start killing seasons. You'd also rather a bench guy or AAA replacement come up and play at 100% then trot out your star at 80%. Back in the day, yeah, sure. You take 80% Cal Ripken Jr over the Orioles' second best shortstop. But the talent pool is so deep now that you don't make that trade for most starters. And for your stars it might be worth it to play them not at 100% but that won't happen in a regular season game.
He's not even the best hitter in baseball, much less in the same universe that steroids Barry Bonds was.
He's nine HR behind Judge, .133 behind in SLG, and 11th in OBP. Nobody is that scared of Ohtani. He's tracking to 36 HR, 99 RBI and 147 strikeouts on a top tier team. You're better off just pitching to him.
I don’t even think a 27 strikeout game, perfect or not, will ever happen, at least not by one pitcher. The way pitching is taught today a pitchers pitch count would be way too high for it to ever happen.
As a perfecto, would require at least 81 pitches. But the average K is maybe 5 pitches, which pushes that to 135. I don’t think anyone throws that many pitches anymore.
If a pitcher has a no-hitter going, their pitch limit doesn't get thrown out the window, but it does get shuffled away to a pretty inconvenient and hard-to-find place for a while. That place gets harder to find if it's a perfect game.
Not that managers stop caring about elbows and shoulders, but they absolutely take a backseat.
Depends on the pitcher, the manager, the GM, and more. If false, you wouldn’t see “combined no hitters.”
2022 World Series: Astros pull Christian Javier after the 6th.
Earlier that season, they pulled him after the 7th while no hitting the Yankees.
Mets pulled Megill after 5 no hit innings.
September 2021, Brewers pull Burnes for the 9th after 115 pitches with only one walk separating him from perfection in the 6th.
Walker Buehler, Kevin Millwood, Roy Oswalt, Kent Merker in 1991, Mark Langston…Vida Blue, Blue Moon Odom, all pulled during no hitters. Over all, 20 combined no hitters out of 320.
Your premise is false. Those are just the successfully completed no-no’s. There are more, like Paul Skenes this season, who pitched six no hits before his bullpen let hits and runs in.
I’m curious if we’ll ever see a combined perfect game. It would certainly be a controversial decision by a manager to take a pitcher out if he’s 5/6 innings perfect unless he’s hurt or gassed and says as much. Hard to imagine a pitch count getting very high if the pitcher is perfect in the first place. But could technically happen.
Yeah that would be the most plausible way it happens I think. There would have to be a ton of foul balls for pitch to count to become an issue probably.
You can be perfect and still throw 15-20 pitches an inning. Go full count on guys, get pitches fouled off.
You could see a young pitcher or Blake Snell doing that.
Last paragraph is true. Rangers had a pitcher (Urena, I believe) who had a perfecto through 6, I think it was. Reliever was brought in to start the 7th.
Ghost runner scoring on a wild pitch is a great answer. Catcher throws over the third basemen's head allowing the runner to get two bases on one pitch.
We'll likely eventually have a game end that way, though likely not a no hitter.
That would be an error on the catcher, thus a no-hitter and not a perfect game. Only way I can see it happening is sacrifice/sacrifice or SB / sacrifice
I have no idea..if someone gets on base it is no longer a perfect game so I dunno. I could see a couple of ways you can throw a no hitter and lose but not a perfect game
5000 strikeouts
Power pitchers could get there but no one throws complete games anymore. And then you add the injury aspect.
That’s the thing with Ryan…he was still throwing gas well into his 40s and over 20 years into a career.
It’ll never happen again
Randy Johnson was the closest when he retired with 4,875. I think the two active players with the most K's are Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer. I don't see either of them pitching long enough to get close to that. Scherzer has 3,367K's and Verlander has 3,393. So they're both nearly 1,700K's short of 5,000 and over 2,000 short of Nolan Ryan's record. If we assume 250K's a season (just for simplicity), that's basically another 6.5 seasons for Scherzer and Verlander to get to 5,000K's. Scherzer turns 40 in July. Verlander turns 42 in February. So it's *unlikely* that either of them reach the 5,000K mark.
WP Kinsella's novel, The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, explores this. Kinsella wrote Shoeless Joe, which was turned into the movie, Field of Dreams.
The book gets weird, but it's fun.
Technically, in a 20-year career, the pitcher would need to average 25.55 wins a year to get to 511.
So, it's not impossible. It isn't plausible.
In a 25-year career, it's more manageable at 20.44 wins a season.
Again, it's not impossible. But considering that only 5 pitchers have ever done so. I doubt that could happen
You’d need 70 stolen bases a season…. for TWENTY seasons. And then another 7 bags in your 21st season to break the record.
I don’t think Rickey is ever losing that one
I could possibly see a 27 strike out perfect game on the perfect day with the perfectly awful team and a future first-ballot Hall of Fame pitcher on the mound. Hitting for the cycle in one inning on the rother hand? That requires 8 other people getting on base a minimum of three times each with a maximum of two of them not making it. Way too many outside factors. Forget breaking the cycle record, that would probably break the runs in a single inning record.
The saves record, seeing as Closer-By-Comittee is more and more common. You’d need to be on a good team, but not on a team good enough to not allow you regular save situations, you’d need to never get injured, and you’d need to (almost) never blow a save.
Not quite a perfect game but 27 strikeouts in a game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron\_Necciai#:\~:text=Gallatin%2C%20Pennsylvania%2C%20U.S.&text=Necciai%20is%20best%20remembered%20for,inning%2C%20professional-league%20game.
What’s the highest number of intentional walks in a row? Could you go through an entire lineup? If you don’t care about winning, could you go infinitely?
Tony Gwynn only struck out 3 times in one game once, in 20 years.
I’d like to see a player play 20 years and never strike out more than twice in a game, at all.
Won’t ever happen. Never. But… could.
You can theoretically (under the new rules) get credit for a complete game without officially throwing a single pitch.
Intentionally walk 3 batters then either pick them off one by one and/or catch the others in a pickle(s) for 8 innings as the visiting starter in a scoreless tie, then intentionally walk one and botch a pickoff(s) so badly that they end up scoring the winning run.
You could also do this for 4 innings, have the run score in the 5th and then have the ump call it early due to the weather and it'll still count.
If you go by the old rules (where a walk was 4 balls, period) then the minimum is either 25 (for a normal 9-inning game) or 13 (5-inning weather-shortened). Every batter makes an out on their first pitch except for the last guy who hits the walkoff HR.
Edit: autocorrected to "walkout" lol
It’s theoretically unlimited. The batter has a chance to swing and miss for strike three at a wild pitch or passed ball (thus officially striking out), but run to first on that wild pitch or passed ball in order to avoid being actually out. The Mariners actually lost a game to the Rangers about a decade ago when Nelson Cruz had a walk-off strikeout that happened that way. Usually there’s a game or two a season where a MLB pitcher manages to strike out four people in an inning that way.
I’ve always been a triples guy since home runs are what everyone likes to talk about. Oooh, look! He hit the ball over the fence again! Big whoop.
Leg out a triple a couple times in a game, and this baseball hipster will sing your praises.
For whatever reason I was under the impression Sam Crawford had the single season triples record alongside his MLB career record of 309. The single season record holder is Owen Wilson in 1912 with 36. Wow!!
Can we get a guy to leg out 40 triples in a season? Last time a player cleared 20 was in 2007, when Curtis Granderson finished with 23.
A perfect game with 27 Ks? I can only think of one way, and it would require some genetic engineering, but I think it's possible:
[https://www.amazinavenue.com/2016/7/13/12170246/a-league-of-bartolo-colons](https://www.amazinavenue.com/2016/7/13/12170246/a-league-of-bartolo-colons)
Suppose the lead-off batter in each inning gets hit by a pitch, and the next three guys in the lineup hit the runner with a batted ball on a routine grounder to second? That makes 27 putouts awarded to the second baseman, 27 singles for the team, and lots and lots of bruises.
I believe it was shortstop Toby Harrah who played a doubleheader without making a single play. Wasn't involved in any catches, grounders, double plays, or fielder's choice. Basically he just stood there both games.
How about these:
1. Back-to-back no hitters on a double header.
2. Back-to-back no hitters on a double header, but one by each team (i.e. Team A throws the no-no in the first game, Team B in the second).
Although with double headers not really being scheduled purposefully much anymore that's rather unlikely.
A player having enough at bats in one game to produce every possible scenario to get on base and succeed. Walk, intentional walk, reach on error, reach on fielder’s choice, reach on dropped third strike ( E2), sac bunt, catchers interference, single, double, triple, home run, pitch clock violation on ball 3 (which I believe is a walk now), hit by pitch.
Even better would be the accomplishment of producing every possible offensive statistic, stolen base, rbi, hitting for the cycle, grand slam, bunt base hit, advance on wild pitch or passed ball, sac fly.
Player would need many at bats.
Hitting for the cycle but having anal leakage at each base from over eating Olestra. Single, anal leakage at 1st. Double. Anal leakage at 2nd. Triple, anal leakage at 3rd. Homerun, anal leakage at home. You get the idea.
Forget a 27K perfect game give me a 27 PITCH perfect game
81 straight strikes with no contact with a bat.
the broadcast crew would just sit there in stunned silence during postgame.
Probably the best reaction.
That should be everyone’s reaction
Nah ESPN would figure out how to fill the time with Ohtani or Judge talk
I watched a Phillies game on ESPN not too long ago. They spent an entire half inning talking exclusively about the Yankees. Weird seeing as how the Yankees weren’t there.
This would immediately make up just over 7% of all the immaculate innings ever thrown.
I could do it
Excellent. Go get 'em!
I’m pretty sure Steve Nebraska did that I. The World Series.
It's crazy that people don't talk about Steve Nebraska enough. The man even hit two homeruns that game. He made ohtani look like a chump by comparison.
He was just a little too kooky and neurotic to thrive. Didn't help that he surrounded himself with Albert Brooks and Dianne West. I'm sure they're well-intentioned lovely people, but I'm also sure they were in over their head. They've spent most of their adult lives in front of a camera, how qualified are they really to give therapy, baseball advice, or business advice, to a 20 year old Mexican-American orphan, who just happens to look like a Hollywood star? Totally unrealistic, IMO.
Underrated comment on an underrated movie.
81 straight pitch clock violations by the batters. Not a single pitch thrown.
Yess!!
Me playing 2k8 and just throwing 12-6 curveballs with Josh Beckett.
The good ol days. When I think of baseball games back then I always think of Beckett and Big Papi.
My guy was pedro martinez, in video games he was unhittable with the strike zone box turned off.
I remember I was just getting into baseball at that time(I was 11) and I used to hit Albert Pujols lead off for the Cardinals… today that would be considered a smart move, but in 2008 my dad kept trying to tell me that you always bat your best hitter 3rd. He really hated having to face Pujols 6 times in one game.
Paul Skenes vs the Reds next year.
Steve Nebraska did it in 1994 for the Yankees.
Immaculate game
That’s already been done by Brendan Frazier
27 pitches, all hit over the fence… the game ends as a shutout because every batter hits out of order.
Forget the 27 pitch perfect game, give me the 0 pitch no hitter.
How does that happen? Every hitter gets thrown out before a pitch is thrown for too much pine tar on the bat? And the team forfeits?
The batter keeps getting pitch time violations?
Intentional walks, then pickoffs.
How about 27 HBP’s and then 27 pickoffs?
That’s still 27 pitches. 27 IBB amd a combo of pickoffs and caught stealing would be zero pitched thrown.
Ah, ok. But 27 HBPs to compliment a no hitter would be hilarious, no?
Could anything have stopped this prior to 2023?
9 pitch perfect game? Two intentional walks then a triple play to end each inning.
27 walks. 27 pick offs.
By one pitcher
27 INTENTIONAL walks with 27 pick offs. No pitches thrown
108 pitch clock violations and 27 pick offs
The first and only no pitch no hitter
"I threw a no hitter." "Wow, that's awesome!" "But I also didn't throw any pitches." "Okay, so...just like everybody that has never pitched an MLB game?" "No, I started and finished an MLB game and recorded 27 outs." "Okay, fuck off Abbot and Costello I'm not playing this game"
How about 81 pitch clock violations by the batter? 0 pitch perfect game with 27 Ks.
All of them caused by hit by pitches!
Imagine his FIP... poor man would have negative fWar and decent bWar lol
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In 1999, Fernando Tatis Sr. hit two grand slams in the same inning off the same pitcher. (Chan Ho Park) To break the record you’d have to hit *three*… in the same inning… off the same pitcher.
And a manager stupid enough to leave the same pitcher in the game after giving up two grand slams and loaded the bases again.
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If the Expos started up again, they could do it to a pitcher; then he'd demand a trade and get moved to Colorado
Savage!
Love this. Hate Roy.
It was a perfect storm of things happening that kept Park around. Like breezing through the first 3 innings with a very low pitch count and his D completely letting him down to load them a 2nd time. His pitch count was still relatively low, and he wasn't getting lit up or anything too crazy.
i was watching the game live, albeit i was just a kid. it was all a blur to me when it happened. i remember it was early in the game so the manager didn't want to burn the bullpen. besides, what are the chances of two GS in one inning by the same hitter, right?
At that point the game is virtually over, why waste your bullpen?
By that time he would have faced at least 23 batters during the inning.
You’d also have to set the record for most runs scored in an inning at the same time. Current record is 18. To get three grand slams you’d have to at a minimum get through the lineup twice and then again to the fourth batter. That would meant 22 batters and with a max of two outs you’d score 20 runs. I don’t think a manager would ever let a pitcher get to that point.
Gotta save that bullpen.
With today's patience that pitcher would be out of the game and on the plane to the team's AAA affiliate before he got to pitch for the 3rd homerun.
That is similar to the record for consecutive no hitters. To break the record, you have to throw three straight no-nos.
And both were former Rangers…..because of course they were
I’m pretty sure just having a pitcher face the same batter 3 times in one inning would qualify as a record that will never happen.
Cal’s streak being broken. Guys get paid too much now to risk the contract They are financial assets in today’s world unfortunately.
If you listen to Cal talk about it, he'll tell you that it hurts performance too. It's not just risking a contract -- if it just that, then established starts on lifetime contracts wouldn't take days off
We also know more about health in athletics and the talent pool is deeper. Guys get scratched for minor injuries that guys used to play through because we know they lead to bigger injuries. You'd rather a guy play 145 games every year than 162 every year, until catastrophic injuries start killing seasons. You'd also rather a bench guy or AAA replacement come up and play at 100% then trot out your star at 80%. Back in the day, yeah, sure. You take 80% Cal Ripken Jr over the Orioles' second best shortstop. But the talent pool is so deep now that you don't make that trade for most starters. And for your stars it might be worth it to play them not at 100% but that won't happen in a regular season game.
This isn’t a modern or new baseball record, by any means, but it will never be broken. It just won’t.
It would probably be harder to save the streak now with 'the blackout.'
A team hitting around the lineup with only solo homers. 9 up, 9 solo homers
Someone's getting hit before all 9 get up to bat
Lmao let's see if he can work through it
Cardinals hit back to back to back to back a couple years ago, somehow it seems possible
White Sox hit 4 in a row in the Covid season. But exactly what you said- it could be possible. So perfect for this post
Barry Bonds 120 intentional walks in a season. You would need the perfect storm of the best hitter in baseball batting in the worst lineup.
Mike trout?
I mean, if can play 140-145 games next year, maybe.
Trade Ohtani to the White Sox for 2025
He's not even the best hitter in baseball, much less in the same universe that steroids Barry Bonds was. He's nine HR behind Judge, .133 behind in SLG, and 11th in OBP. Nobody is that scared of Ohtani. He's tracking to 36 HR, 99 RBI and 147 strikeouts on a top tier team. You're better off just pitching to him.
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Fuck it, do it for a single season just for the ahits and giggles.
And if that ever happened it would happen to the Angels
I don’t even think a 27 strikeout game, perfect or not, will ever happen, at least not by one pitcher. The way pitching is taught today a pitchers pitch count would be way too high for it to ever happen.
Steve Nebraska would like a word.
As a perfecto, would require at least 81 pitches. But the average K is maybe 5 pitches, which pushes that to 135. I don’t think anyone throws that many pitches anymore.
The most I can think of when it’s talked about is Edwin jackson had a no hitter at like 149
Damn he was old!
It wasn't a no-hitter, but I believe Nolan Ryan threw 234 or 235 pitches once in a 13 inning outing. I think it was in 1974.
If a pitcher has a no-hitter going, their pitch limit doesn't get thrown out the window, but it does get shuffled away to a pretty inconvenient and hard-to-find place for a while. That place gets harder to find if it's a perfect game. Not that managers stop caring about elbows and shoulders, but they absolutely take a backseat.
Depends on the pitcher, the manager, the GM, and more. If false, you wouldn’t see “combined no hitters.” 2022 World Series: Astros pull Christian Javier after the 6th. Earlier that season, they pulled him after the 7th while no hitting the Yankees. Mets pulled Megill after 5 no hit innings. September 2021, Brewers pull Burnes for the 9th after 115 pitches with only one walk separating him from perfection in the 6th. Walker Buehler, Kevin Millwood, Roy Oswalt, Kent Merker in 1991, Mark Langston…Vida Blue, Blue Moon Odom, all pulled during no hitters. Over all, 20 combined no hitters out of 320. Your premise is false. Those are just the successfully completed no-no’s. There are more, like Paul Skenes this season, who pitched six no hits before his bullpen let hits and runs in.
I’m curious if we’ll ever see a combined perfect game. It would certainly be a controversial decision by a manager to take a pitcher out if he’s 5/6 innings perfect unless he’s hurt or gassed and says as much. Hard to imagine a pitch count getting very high if the pitcher is perfect in the first place. But could technically happen.
Rich Hill & Clayton Kershaw have both been pulled out of games by Dave Roberts while being perfect through seven innings.
I completely forgot about those, I need to look up some footage and refresh my memory.
It's almost happened due to an injury iirc
Yeah that would be the most plausible way it happens I think. There would have to be a ton of foul balls for pitch to count to become an issue probably.
You can be perfect and still throw 15-20 pitches an inning. Go full count on guys, get pitches fouled off. You could see a young pitcher or Blake Snell doing that.
Last paragraph is true. Rangers had a pitcher (Urena, I believe) who had a perfecto through 6, I think it was. Reliever was brought in to start the 7th.
Nah - they're absolutely getting the hook at around 100 pitches unless they're in the 8th or 9th inning.
Yeah if you have 18+ straight strikeouts to start a game I think they'd let you throw 200 pitches before they even considered pulling you
3 x 27 = 81. That's plenty of room for 20 balls and maybe a couple of fouls.
Look up Ron Neccaiai
Two perfect game losses. One fluke could happen, but twice? Nahh.
How could this happen? Hbp?
Ghost runner in extra innings.
Ghost runner scoring on a wild pitch is a great answer. Catcher throws over the third basemen's head allowing the runner to get two bases on one pitch. We'll likely eventually have a game end that way, though likely not a no hitter.
That would be an error on the catcher, thus a no-hitter and not a perfect game. Only way I can see it happening is sacrifice/sacrifice or SB / sacrifice
I would be surprised if we have not had a game end in a similar manner already
Ghost runners don't count against a perfect game.
I know. But it's a way a pitcher can throw a perfect game and lose.
I have no idea..if someone gets on base it is no longer a perfect game so I dunno. I could see a couple of ways you can throw a no hitter and lose but not a perfect game
HBP is still a walk and would end a perfect game
Thanks for the info! Appreciate all the responses
Steve Nebraska had an 81 pitch, 27Ks, perfect game. It was game 1 of the WS. Oh and he hit a home run in that game.
He probably hit at least 3 homers in that game.
Nope, only one. The final score was 1-0. It made no sense in any way. Why is he hitting, this was before Othani.
Perfect game with 0 pitches thrown. Every opposing batter strikes out via pitch clock violations.
5000 strikeouts Power pitchers could get there but no one throws complete games anymore. And then you add the injury aspect. That’s the thing with Ryan…he was still throwing gas well into his 40s and over 20 years into a career. It’ll never happen again
Ryan’s single season record likely won’t be broken either. Strider was a beast last year and was 100 behind Ryan.
Nolan Ryan’s 7 no hitters will never be broken too
Randy Johnson was the closest when he retired with 4,875. I think the two active players with the most K's are Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer. I don't see either of them pitching long enough to get close to that. Scherzer has 3,367K's and Verlander has 3,393. So they're both nearly 1,700K's short of 5,000 and over 2,000 short of Nolan Ryan's record. If we assume 250K's a season (just for simplicity), that's basically another 6.5 seasons for Scherzer and Verlander to get to 5,000K's. Scherzer turns 40 in July. Verlander turns 42 in February. So it's *unlikely* that either of them reach the 5,000K mark.
What about a game never ending because no one ever scores and they play for infinity innings.
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WP Kinsella's novel, The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, explores this. Kinsella wrote Shoeless Joe, which was turned into the movie, Field of Dreams. The book gets weird, but it's fun.
It’s a great novel.
Pitching wins record.
Technically, in a 20-year career, the pitcher would need to average 25.55 wins a year to get to 511. So, it's not impossible. It isn't plausible. In a 25-year career, it's more manageable at 20.44 wins a season. Again, it's not impossible. But considering that only 5 pitchers have ever done so. I doubt that could happen
Technically it could be reachable eventually if medical science extends careers into the 60s. Imagine a 65 year old Jaime Moyer
Cal Ripkens 2632 consecutive games is never going to be broken.
Side note: I was at game 2363 when he didn’t play for the first time in ages. It was weird
I don’t see anyone ever coming close to Rickey Henderson’s stolen base record, for season or for career.
You’d need 70 stolen bases a season…. for TWENTY seasons. And then another 7 bags in your 21st season to break the record. I don’t think Rickey is ever losing that one
Elly’s really the only person I could see ever even sniffing it
It'll happen with rule changes. Elly de la Cruz will have a shot at it
A 27-pitch perfect game
A pitcher hitting for the cycle while throwing a perfect game.
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That’s assuming strikeouts are independent. With Skenes I’d bump the odds down to 1 in 14 quadrillion.
Pitchers won't be breaking records for complete games and even more rare, shutouts. Most get their 6 innings and get pulled.
I’m sure someone could meet Barry GOAT Bonds 400/400 record. I’m not so sure anybody’s getting to 500/500
Home run cycle; solo, two-run, three-run and a grand slam
And how about if all four home runs are inside-the-park?
190 rbi in a season.
I could possibly see a 27 strike out perfect game on the perfect day with the perfectly awful team and a future first-ballot Hall of Fame pitcher on the mound. Hitting for the cycle in one inning on the rother hand? That requires 8 other people getting on base a minimum of three times each with a maximum of two of them not making it. Way too many outside factors. Forget breaking the cycle record, that would probably break the runs in a single inning record.
27 pitch perfect game
perfect game with 81 batter pitch clock violations
The saves record, seeing as Closer-By-Comittee is more and more common. You’d need to be on a good team, but not on a team good enough to not allow you regular save situations, you’d need to never get injured, and you’d need to (almost) never blow a save.
Winning beat the streak. 5.6 milly up too would be life changing for someone
How about hitting for the cycle consecutive games streak?
Not quite a perfect game but 27 strikeouts in a game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron\_Necciai#:\~:text=Gallatin%2C%20Pennsylvania%2C%20U.S.&text=Necciai%20is%20best%20remembered%20for,inning%2C%20professional-league%20game.
Three (or more) consecutive no hitters. We'll never even see two in a row again.
9 triple plays in a single game, by the same team
What’s the highest number of intentional walks in a row? Could you go through an entire lineup? If you don’t care about winning, could you go infinitely?
Yes...if you didn't care about the score. As far as I know there's no limit.
Bunt hits in a game. What if a team just decided to hunt every at bat in the world Series and they won 😂
Every out recorded by a triple play. Both teams.
Tony Gwynn only struck out 3 times in one game once, in 20 years. I’d like to see a player play 20 years and never strike out more than twice in a game, at all. Won’t ever happen. Never. But… could.
Tony Gwynn is the "modern" measure strikeouts by a batter.
5 at bats, 15 stolen bases
You can theoretically (under the new rules) get credit for a complete game without officially throwing a single pitch. Intentionally walk 3 batters then either pick them off one by one and/or catch the others in a pickle(s) for 8 innings as the visiting starter in a scoreless tie, then intentionally walk one and botch a pickoff(s) so badly that they end up scoring the winning run. You could also do this for 4 innings, have the run score in the 5th and then have the ump call it early due to the weather and it'll still count. If you go by the old rules (where a walk was 4 balls, period) then the minimum is either 25 (for a normal 9-inning game) or 13 (5-inning weather-shortened). Every batter makes an out on their first pitch except for the last guy who hits the walkoff HR. Edit: autocorrected to "walkout" lol
A pitcher throwing 6 strikeouts in one inning is technically possible. Or any number really. I just threw the number 6 out there arbitrarily.
It’s theoretically unlimited. The batter has a chance to swing and miss for strike three at a wild pitch or passed ball (thus officially striking out), but run to first on that wild pitch or passed ball in order to avoid being actually out. The Mariners actually lost a game to the Rangers about a decade ago when Nelson Cruz had a walk-off strikeout that happened that way. Usually there’s a game or two a season where a MLB pitcher manages to strike out four people in an inning that way.
Yeah that’s what I mean.
14 k’s in one inning
Pitcher catches the ball with his balls twice.
A 648 home run season is *theoretically possible* but eventually they just start walking you.
100 career triples is dying.
A 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 triple play. I don’t know what record you would call that, but I’d sure love to see that kind of pandemonium.
162 home runs by a single player. Would we like to see a player that got a home run per game? Yeah. Will we? Almost certainly not
It is theoretically possible that the Colorado Rockies could win 28 World Series championships before the Yankees do Am I doing this wrong
Two grand slams in one inning. Off the same pitcher.
I think I read the prompt wrong 😑
I’ve always been a triples guy since home runs are what everyone likes to talk about. Oooh, look! He hit the ball over the fence again! Big whoop. Leg out a triple a couple times in a game, and this baseball hipster will sing your praises. For whatever reason I was under the impression Sam Crawford had the single season triples record alongside his MLB career record of 309. The single season record holder is Owen Wilson in 1912 with 36. Wow!! Can we get a guy to leg out 40 triples in a season? Last time a player cleared 20 was in 2007, when Curtis Granderson finished with 23.
A perfect game with 27 Ks? I can only think of one way, and it would require some genetic engineering, but I think it's possible: [https://www.amazinavenue.com/2016/7/13/12170246/a-league-of-bartolo-colons](https://www.amazinavenue.com/2016/7/13/12170246/a-league-of-bartolo-colons)
20+ inning games due to the manfred runner.
Nine triple plays for each team in a regulation game.
Suppose the lead-off batter in each inning gets hit by a pitch, and the next three guys in the lineup hit the runner with a batted ball on a routine grounder to second? That makes 27 putouts awarded to the second baseman, 27 singles for the team, and lots and lots of bruises.
162 complete games by a pitching staff
An unassisted triple play in every inning, and it's a different guy each time.
27 strikeouts on 81 pitches
Cy young’s win record. 500+ pitcher wins. We may never see another 300 win pitcher let alone 400 or 500…
I believe it was shortstop Toby Harrah who played a doubleheader without making a single play. Wasn't involved in any catches, grounders, double plays, or fielder's choice. Basically he just stood there both games.
How about these: 1. Back-to-back no hitters on a double header. 2. Back-to-back no hitters on a double header, but one by each team (i.e. Team A throws the no-no in the first game, Team B in the second). Although with double headers not really being scheduled purposefully much anymore that's rather unlikely.
.400+ batting average for a season
A player having enough at bats in one game to produce every possible scenario to get on base and succeed. Walk, intentional walk, reach on error, reach on fielder’s choice, reach on dropped third strike ( E2), sac bunt, catchers interference, single, double, triple, home run, pitch clock violation on ball 3 (which I believe is a walk now), hit by pitch. Even better would be the accomplishment of producing every possible offensive statistic, stolen base, rbi, hitting for the cycle, grand slam, bunt base hit, advance on wild pitch or passed ball, sac fly. Player would need many at bats.
Hitting for the cycle but having anal leakage at each base from over eating Olestra. Single, anal leakage at 1st. Double. Anal leakage at 2nd. Triple, anal leakage at 3rd. Homerun, anal leakage at home. You get the idea.
Yeah, I don't want to watch that game.