As we are saying goodbye to 2025, it is a good time to revisit a few of the greatest moments of the previous season. From 13-strikeout full video games to a number of four-homer performances, the 2025 marketing campaign featured pleasure all throughout MLB.
With the assistance of all 30 MLB.com beat writers, here is a take a look at every staff’s greatest single-game efficiency in 2025.
Blue Jays: Trey Yesavage, AL Division Sequence Recreation 2 vs. YankeesWhat a season this was for Yesavage, the rookie who opened the 12 months by making his professional debut in Single-A and ended it pitching within the World Sequence. His best second got here in his postseason debut in opposition to the Yankees at house, the place he struck out 11 over 5 1/3 innings of no-hit ball. It was as dominant a pitching efficiency as we’ve ever seen from a Blue Jays pitcher within the postseason as Yesavage baffled the Yankees together with his unbelievable splitter. — Keegan Matheson
Orioles: Brandon Younger, Aug. 15 at HoustonThere’s by no means been an ideal recreation within the historical past of the O’s/Browns franchise. Younger nearly grew to become the primary on a Friday evening in Houston, the place the Lumberton, Texas native authored one of the vital spectacular pitching performances in MLB this 12 months. The suitable-hander retired the primary 23 Astros batters earlier than Ramón Urías — who had been traded by the Orioles on July 31 — ended Younger’s perfecto bid with 4 outs to go through an infield single recorded on a tapper hit to the left aspect of the mound. Younger retired 24 of 25 batters confronted in his eight-inning scoreless gem. — Jake Rill
Rays: Junior Caminero, Could 31 at HoustonCaminero’s unbelievable efficiency within the Rays’ 16-3 romp over the Astros could have been overshadowed, consider it or not, as a result of starter Zack Littell pitched Tampa Bay’s first full recreation since Ryan Yarbrough went the space in June 2021. Josh Lowe homered and had three hits and Jake Mangum hit his first MLB homer, too. However Caminero made some historical past of his personal with a career-high 4 hits, his first multihomer recreation, two doubles, 4 runs scored and 5 RBIs, turning into the primary participant in franchise historical past with at the least 4 extra-base hits and at the least 5 RBIs in the identical recreation. — Adam Berry
Purple Sox: Garrett Crochet blanks Rays, July 12 at FenwayThe Purple Sox knew that they had one thing particular in Crochet the second they executed the commerce with the White Sox to amass him final December. On July 12, they noticed what Crochet appears to be like like at his best, when he fired a three-hit shutout in opposition to the Rays that included no walks and 9 strikeouts in simply 100 pitches. The timing was excellent in that it ran Boston’s eventual season-long successful streak of 10 video games to 9. All season, Crochet had the power to start out a successful streak, hold one going or cease a shedding streak in its tracks. — Ian Browne
Yankees: Cam Schlittler, AL Wild Card Sequence Recreation 3 vs. Purple SoxSchlittler pitched the sport of his life with the Yankees’ season on the road, fueled by the vitriol of on-line trolls who chirped at his relations. Schlittler was overpowering, scattering 5 singles over eight scoreless innings and putting out 12 and not using a stroll as he relished placing an finish to Boston’s season in a history-making efficiency. Routinely exceeding triple digits together with his crackling fastball, Schlittler set a brand new franchise file for strikeouts in a postseason debut, outdoing Purple Ruffing (1932) and Dave Righetti (1981). — Bryan Hoch
Guardians: Gavin Williams, Aug. 6 at MetsIn the Guardians’ 4-1 win at Citi Subject, Williams almost ended Cleveland’s 44-year no-hitter drought, which dates to Len Barker’s good recreation on Could 15, 1981. The suitable-hander’s bid ended when he allowed a one-out solo house run to Juan Soto within the ninth inning, on a 1-0 four-seam fastball on the outer half of the plate. Nonetheless, it was an unbelievable effort by Williams that was reflective of the most important strides he took in 2025. Over 8 2/3 innings, he threw 126 pitches (75 strikes), struck out six and overcame 4 walks to return two outs shy of historical past. — Tim Stebbins
Royals: Noah Cameron, April 30 at Tampa BayFirst up on the Royals’ depth chart, Cameron was known as up for his debut on April 30 at George M. Steinbrenner Subject. The beginning foreshadowed what was to return for Cameron, who posted a 2.99 ERA and completed fourth in AL Rookie of the Yr voting. On this evening, Cameron carried a no-hitter into the seventh inning, turning into the eighth pitcher since 1961 to file a no-hit bid of at the least 6 1/3 innings in his debut. Cameron earned the win, permitting only one hit whereas putting out three. It was a storybook begin for the native child. — Anne Rogers
Tigers: Tarik Skubal, Could 25 vs. GuardiansNot solely did Skubal toss his first profession full recreation, he threw a Maddux, shutting out Cleveland on two hits and no walks in simply 94 pitches. His remaining pitch was a 102.6 mph fastball — the toughest pitch thrown by a Tigers pitcher within the Statcast period (since 2015), and the toughest ninth-inning pitch by an MLB starter beneath pitch monitoring (since 2008) — to fan Gabriel Arias for his thirteenth strikeout, essentially the most ever by a pitcher throwing a Maddux. It despatched Skubal on a four-start stretch of 30 2/3 innings of one-run ball, setting him up for his second consecutive AL Cy Younger award. — Jason Beck
Twins: Byron Buxton, July 12 vs. PiratesWhat else may or not it’s? On his bobblehead day, three days earlier than his home-state All-Star Recreation look, Buxton delighted the Goal Subject crowd together with his first cycle and the primary within the 16-season historical past of the ballpark. He went 5-for-5 with three runs scored and two RBIs in a 12-4 thumping of the Bucs, capping it with a house run to straightaway heart. Contemplating that he additionally flashed his velocity with an infield single, it was an ideal encapsulation of all of the methods Buxton could make an influence on offense. — Matthew Leach
White Sox: Shane Smith, Sept. 28 at NationalsThe right-hander saved his greatest for final by retiring the primary 16 batters he confronted in the course of the remaining recreation of the common season at Nationals Park, earlier than Brady Home singled to proper with one out within the sixth. Smith retired 18 of the 19 Nationals hitters confronted, putting out eight and never issuing a stroll. He exited after these six innings and 73 pitches, so Smith’s workload was on monitor to finish historical past if he had the possibility. Workforce win No. 60 got here through an 8-0 shellacking for the White Sox behind three house runs and the All-Star rookie’s near-perfect mound end. — Scott Merkin
Angels: Yusei Kikuchi, June 25 vs. Purple SoxKikuchi was dominant in opposition to a strong Boston lineup, putting out 12 batters and permitting no earned runs over seven innings with simply three hits allowed in a 5-2 win at Angel Stadium. The 12 strikeouts had been tied for the second-most in his profession and simply shy of his profession excessive of 13. He registered 20 swings and misses amongst his 105 pitches and stored the Purple Sox off-balance all recreation. — Rhett Bollinger
Astros: Jake Meyers, Could 3 at White SoxMeyers carried the Astros to an 8-3 win in Chicago by going 4-for-4 with a club-record-tying 13 whole bases and a career-high seven RBIs. He grew to become the one Astros participant to have two homers, a triple and a double in the identical recreation, all performed whereas batting ninth within the order. Among the many different Astros gamers to have 13 whole bases are Corridor of Famers Jeff Bagwell and Joe Morgan, together with slugger Yordan Alvarez, who did it twice. Fairly heady firm. How unlikely was Meyers’ efficiency that day? He managed seven RBIs in his subsequent 160 at-bats, masking 45 video games. — Brian McTaggart
Athletics: Nick Kurtz, July 25 at HoustonKurtz tormented Astros pitching by going an ideal 6-for-6 with 4 house runs and eight RBIs at Daikin Park to develop into the primary A’s participant in franchise historical past with a four-homer recreation, the primary rookie in MLB historical past with a four-homer recreation and simply the twentieth participant total. With 19 whole bases, he additionally tied Shawn Inexperienced in 2002 for essentially the most in a recreation all time. Three of Kurtz’s blasts went the other strategy to left, whereas the opposite was a mammoth 414-foot shot into the second deck in proper. His double within the fourth was only a few toes shy of a house run, which might have made him the primary participant in MLB historical past with a five-homer recreation. — Martín Gallegos
Mariners: Cal Raleigh hits 59th, sixtieth homers in division clincher, Sept. 24 vs. RockiesReaching the historic spherical quantity was at all times going to be a season-encapsulating milestone, but the way in which during which Raleigh did it was much more outstanding than anybody may’ve envisioned. Seattle’s all-world catcher crushed his sixtieth homer of 2025 to place the Mariners up, 9-1, within the eighth inning in opposition to the Rockies and all however ensured that their long-awaited AL West title was incoming momentarily. However that wasn’t even his greatest homer of the evening, as he crushed No. 59 within the first inning and reached the third deck in proper discipline — territory that solely seven others had visited prior in T-Cellular Park’s 27-year historical past. — Daniel Kramer
Rangers: Nathan Eovaldi’s 99-pitch shutout, April 1 at RedsThe Rangers’ co-ace has been each little bit of what the membership has wished over the past three seasons, and through an early-season journey to Cincinnati, he confirmed that when once more. Eovaldi tossed a 99-pitch shutout in opposition to the Reds that night, marking the Rangers’ first “Maddux” since Colby Lewis on Sept. 11, 2015, in opposition to the A’s at Globe Life Park. To make it even higher, Greg Maddux’s older brother, Mike, watched from the highest steps of the dugout because the Rangers’ pitching coach. — Kennedi Landry
Braves: Grant Holmes, June 15 vs. RockiesHow irritating was 2025 for the Braves? Properly, their greatest particular person efficiency got here in a 10-1 loss to the Rockies. Holmes was saddled with an unlucky loss regardless of putting out 15 of the 24 batters he confronted. The 15 Ok’s matched John Smoltz for the second-most ever recorded by a Braves pitcher in a recreation that lasted 9 innings or fewer. Spencer Strider had 16 strikeouts in a 2022 recreation in opposition to the Rockies. Holmes really struck out 14 of the 21 batters he confronted by means of six innings. However he retired simply one of many three batters confronted throughout what grew to become a six-run seventh for the Rockies. — Mark Bowman
Mets: David Peterson, June 11 vs. NationalsIn retrospect, Peterson’s efficiency in a 5-0 win over the Nationals may need been the excessive level of the Mets’ season, coming simply days earlier than they started their lengthy slide down the NL standings. Even again then, Mets pitchers had been struggling to go greater than 4 or 5 innings with regularity. Peterson grew to become a routine exception, usually giving the Mets much-needed size. The spotlight got here on June 11, when he threw a six-hit shutout with six strikeouts and no walks. It was the Mets’ first shutout by a left-handed pitcher in six years. — Anthony DiComo
Nationals: MacKenzie Gore strikes out 13 on Opening Day, March 27 vs. PhilliesGore was named the Nationals’ Opening Day starter for the primary time and he responded with a record-setting efficiency. Gore struck out 13 batters in six scoreless innings in opposition to the Phillies. He joined the unique firm of Corridor of Famer Bob Gibson (1967) as the one pitchers in AL/NL historical past with 13 strikeouts and no walks in a scoreless outing on Opening Day. Gore set a franchise file, passing Max Scherzer’s staff mark of 12 set in 2019 in opposition to the Mets. Additionally within the working was James Wooden’s two-homer, five-RBI showcase in opposition to the Dodgers on April 8. — Jessica Camerato
Phillies: Kyle Schwarber hits 4 homers, Aug. 28 vs. BravesSchwarber grew to become simply the twenty first participant in Main League historical past to hit 4 house runs in a single recreation when he did so within the Phillies’ 19-4 win over the Braves at Residents Financial institution Park. He’s the fourth Phillies participant to perform the feat, becoming a member of Mike Schmidt (April 17, 1976), Chuck Klein (July 10, 1936) and Ed Delahanty (July 13, 1896). He began his evening with a 450-foot solo blast to the second deck in proper discipline within the first. He hit a towering two-run homer down the right-field line within the third, then went the other manner for a three-run homer within the fifth. He hit a three-run homer within the seventh. Afterward, he shot his cameo for an episode of Abbott Elementary. — Todd Zolecki
Brewers: Christian Yelich, Aug. 15 at RedsTrailing by seven runs within the second inning with a 12-game successful streak in critical peril, Yelich led the way in which in a comeback for the ages for a 10-8 victory over the Reds, all whereas swinging a Bob Uecker tribute bat that he waited a full 12 months to hold to house plate. Uecker by no means had an evening like this. Yelich hit a solo house run within the second inning, keyed the comeback from the Reds’ seven-run second with a run-scoring double in a five-run third, tied the sport at 8-8 with a two-run single within the fourth that left him a triple shy of his fourth profession cycle in opposition to Cincinnati, then spoiled that bid within the sixth by belting a go-ahead solo homer as a substitute. — Adam McCalvy
Cardinals: Iván Herrera’s three-homer recreation, April 2 vs. AngelsWith apologies to Brendan Donovan’s history-tying four-double evening on Sept. 23, and Sonny Grey’s 89-pitch, one-hit shutout on June 27, the 25-year-old Herrera confirmed off his huge potential on April 2 by mashing three homers. He grew to become the primary catcher within the 144-year historical past of the Cardinals to do this — one thing neither Corridor of Famer Ted Simmons nor probably future Corridor of Famer Yadier Molina ever achieved. Herrera, who had six RBIs and used the second and third decks at Busch Stadium as goal apply, went a projected 395 toes, 414 toes and 425 toes together with his three clouts, and the exit velocities registered at 101.2 mph, 112.1 mph and 110.7 mph, per Statcast. — John Denton
Cubs: Pete Crow-Armstrong flashes protection and energy, June 17 vs. BrewersIt’s tempting to select Carson Kelly’s cycle (March 31 at A’s) or Michael Busch’s three-homer recreation (July 4 vs. Cardinals), however the present Crow-Armstrong placed on in opposition to the Brewers in June stands out. Within the prime of the eighth, the Gold Glover made an unbelievable seize to rob Brice Turang of successful on a deep fly that had a 5% catch chance. It was one in every of Crow-Armstrong’s single-season-record 19 five-star catches (0-25%). Then within the house half of the eighth, he led off with a Statcast-projected 452-foot homer that bounced off the right-field scoreboard at Wrigley Subject. The Cubs received, 5-3, and the outdated ballpark was rocking amid a signature second in PCA’s journey to the primary 30-homer, 30-double, 30-steal season in staff historical past. — Jordan Bastian
Pirates: Paul Skenes, Could 18 at PhilliesWait, the Cy Younger Award winner’s greatest efficiency of the season was in a shedding effort? Skenes dominated one of the vital vaunted lineups within the recreation on this Sunday matinee, putting out 9 with a season-high 22 whiffs in opposition to three hits and one stroll over eight innings. A fifth-inning Brandon Marsh groundout gave the Phillies the one run within the recreation and Skenes’ first profession full recreation got here with a 1-0 loss. When requested by the media if he wished to maintain the ball, he joked, “provided that it will get authenticated with an asterisk subsequent to it.” It was an eight-inning full recreation. — Alex Stumpf
Reds: Spencer Steer, June 27 vs. PadresOn the identical evening that Nick Martinez took a no-hitter into the ninth inning, Steer powered Cincinnati’s 8-1 win with three house runs over every of his first three plate appearances. It was the primary three-homer recreation of his profession and the primary for the Reds since Jesse Winker on June 6, 2021 at St. Louis. The third homer, a two-run drive to the primary row of left-field seats, got here within the fifth inning. Batting as soon as extra within the eighth, Steer struck out to overlook out on a uncommon four-homer recreation. — Mark Sheldon
D-backs: Eugenio Suárez, April 26 vs. BravesSuárez grew to become the nineteenth participant in Main League historical past to hit 4 house runs in a recreation as he was a one-man wrecking crew in opposition to the Atlanta pitching employees. Having homered in his first three at-bats, Suárez stepped to the plate within the ninth in opposition to Braves nearer Raisel Iglesias and launched house run No. 4 to tie the sport at 7-7. Sadly for the D-backs, they might go on to lose, 8-7, in 10 innings. — Steve Gilbert
Dodgers: Shohei Ohtani, NLCS Recreation 4 vs. BrewersForget the very best single-game efficiency of this season — Ohtani’s three-homer, 10-strikeout NLCS Recreation 4 is within the dialog for one of many biggest video games of all time. With the Dodgers a win away from returning to the World Sequence, Ohtani tossed six scoreless innings on the mound to go together with his trio of lengthy balls, one in every of which soared out of Dodger Stadium solely. It earned Ohtani NLCS MVP honors even supposing he had been slumping within the first three video games. It additionally supplanted his 50-50 recreation from the prior season as his signature efficiency as a Dodger. — Sonja Chen
Giants: Wilmer Flores, Could 16 vs. A’sFlores loved the very best offensive efficiency of his 13-year profession in a 9-1 win over the A’s, crushing a career-high three house runs — together with a grand slam — whereas recording eight RBIs. The favored infielder grew to become the primary participant to ship a three-homer recreation for the Giants since Joc Pederson in 2022. — Maria Guardado
Padres: Mason Miller’s immaculate inning, Sept. 3 vs. OriolesBy definition, each immaculate inning is a dominant efficiency. However few aid outings have ever been this dominant. Miller struck out all three hitters he confronted briefly order. He threw 9 straight sliders. The Orioles had no probability. They swung on the remaining eight of them and missed all eight – no foul balls, no foul suggestions. Within the course of, Miller joined Brian Lawrence as the one pitchers in Padres historical past to throw an immaculate inning. (Coincidentally, Lawrence additionally did so in opposition to Baltimore.) — AJ Cassavell
Rockies: Jordan Beck’s two house runs, April 25 vs. RedsSometimes gamers do good issues although the staff result’s unhealthy. Beck clubbed two house runs in an 8-7 house loss to the Reds on April 25, however what he did the day past made the efficiency much more particular. Beck went deep in a 7-4 loss within the first recreation of a doubleheader at Kansas Metropolis, then homered twice within the second recreation, a 6-2 loss. 5 homers in a three-game stretch had been achieved eight different occasions in membership historical past, by six completely different gamers. Beck was the primary participant to hit 5 homers in three straight losses since 2016, with the Twins’ Brian Dozier (Sept. 4-6) and the Rockies’ Charlie Blackmon (Aug. 14-16) doing so. — Thomas Harding
