Mark Whiten, St. Louis Cardinals, 9/7/1993 St. Louis Cardinals 15, Cincinnati Reds 2 This was the 4 homerun game by Mark Whiten, one of the 18 players (as of the end of 2019) that have done so in one game. And yet this game was still played in a tidy 2 hours and 17 minutes. … Continue Reading
Waite Hoyt, Boston Red Sox, 9/15/1920 St. Louis Browns 18, Boston Red Sox 5 Waite Hoyt is a baseball Hall of Famer, but on this day he wasn’t. Maybe coming into the game in relief threw him off. Or the fact that the game was played in front of zero fans. (Was this game played … Continue Reading
Carlos Carrasco, Cleveland Indians, 7/1/2015 Cleveland Indians 8, Tampa Bay Rays 1 Game of 7/1/2015 — Cleveland at Tampa Bay (N) Cleveland AB R H RBI Tampa Bay AB R H RBI Kipnis J, 2b 5 1 2 1 Kiermaier K, cf 4 0 0 0 Aviles M, ss 5 1 1 0 Butler … Continue Reading
Bryce Harper, Washington Nationals, 9/3/2015 Washington Nationals 15, Atlanta Braves 1 This is not so much a “batting” box score line as it is a “base running” box score line. Game of 9/3/2015 — Atlanta at Washington (N) Atlanta AB R H RBI Washington AB R H RBI Markakis N, rf 3 0 0 0 … Continue Reading
Masahiro Tanaka, New York Yankees, 7/25/2019 Boston Red Sox 19, New York Yankees 3 Game of 7/25/2019 — New York at Boston (N) New York AB R H RBI Boston AB R H RBI LeMahieu D, 3b 3 0 0 1 Betts M, rf 4 2 2 2 Judge A, rf 4 0 0 0 … Continue Reading
Bert Blyleven, Minnesota Twins, 8/30/1974 Minnesota Twins 3, Boston Red Sox 2 Game of 8/30/1974 — Boston at Minnesota (N) Boston AB R H RBI Minnesota AB R H RBI Miller R, cf 3 0 0 0 Brye S, cf 3 2 2 0 Cooper C, dh 4 1 1 0 Carew R, 2b 3 … Continue Reading
Jim Bottomley, St. Louis Cardinals, 9/16/1924 St. Louis Cardinals 17, Brooklyn Dodgers 3 I find it a little hard to believe that a game with 20 runs scored total ended in a tidy 1 hour and 55 minutes. It’s almost like this game happened a hundred years ago… Game of 9/16/1924 — St.Louis at Brooklyn … Continue Reading
Jeff Locke, Pittsburgh Pirates, 6/9/2016 Colorado Rockies 11, Pittsburgh Pirates 5 This is the first of what will be many bad pitching lines, because we can’t always just focus on the good, right? Game of 6/9/2016 — Pittsburgh at Colorado (D) Pittsburgh AB R H RBI Colorado AB R H RBI Jaso J, 1b 5 … Continue Reading
Philip Humber, Chicago White Sox, 4/21/2012 Chicago White Sox 4, Seattle Mariners 0 This would appear to be the only perfect game pitched with a palindromic box score line. Game of 4/21/2012 — Chicago at Seattle (D) Chicago AB R H RBI Seattle AB R H RBI de Aza A, cf 5 0 2 1 … Continue Reading
Brandon Crawford, San Francisco Giants, 8/8/2016 San Francisco Giants 8, Miami Marlins 7 Game of 8/8/2016 — San Francisco at Miami (N) San Francisco AB R H RBI Miami AB R H RBI Span D, cf 7 3 3 0 Gordon D, 2b 7 2 3 0 Pagan A, lf 7 1 2 0 Prado … Continue Reading