The victims of the first-ever perfect game in World Series history, the 1956 Brooklyn Dodgers had little time to regroup and recharge in their return to the diamond just a day later: a must-win Game 6 at Ebbets Field. A Duke Snider single in the first eliminated any concern about […]
Jacob deGrom started attacking (and silencing) big league hitters for the official accounting on May 15, 2014, when he allowed a single run over seven innings (and took the loss in a 1-0 affair). The right-hander was 25 years old for this debut and with four hits and two walks […]
In 1924, Herb Pennock went 21-9 for the Yankees to become the franchise’s first 20-game winning southpaw. The honorific would be handed off – one Hall of Famer to another – to Lefty Gomez, who rang up a quartet of 20-win seasons in the 1930s (including a pair of Triple […]
For the 1931 season, Lou Gehrig paced the AL in both homers and RBI, generated more hits than any other player in the league, tallied more total bases than anyone, scored more runs, had more extra-base hits and reached safely as much as anyone. The numbers – gazing at them […]
On April 20, 1992, Giants starter Dave Burba threw a 2-1 pitch to his first adversary of the contest. The offer was gladly received and instantly returned by that opponent in the form of a, as described within the Baseball Reference play-by-play account, “Fly Ball to Deep LF Line”: Craig […]
Since 1901, no Dodgers starting pitcher has accumulated more Opening Day wins than Don Drysdale and his five. The Hall of Fame right-hander owed some of that success to the Cubs, whom he bested in both 1960 and 1963. Drysdale went the distance in both of the victories, with the […]